DAVID SECTER is an award-winning writer/producer/director of narrative and documentary feature films, TV specials and theater. He is currently in pre-production on an original stage DocuDraMusical Banjos & Bugles: A Civil War Salute in Song, Scene & Spectacle!

His latest picture Take The Flame! Gay Games: Grace, Grit & Glory (TakeTheFlame.Net), a doc feature on the history of The Gay Games and founder, Olympian Dr. Tom Waddell, narrated by Greg Louganis, won rave reviews at major festivals and is currently screening in theaters, on television and DVD worldwide via TLA Video. Secter is now adapting Waddell’s story as a narrative feature: An All American Family. He produced pilots for Rendezvous, a proposed series of arts specials: Pacific Passions, shot at the Festival of Pacific Arts in New Caledonia, and BURN, a two-year account of the Burning Man Arts Festival, now showing on the Discovery Channel in Europe. His latest narrative movie is CyberDorm, an offbeat campus comedy about the current webcast phenomenon.

Secter began his film career with Love With The Proper Guppy, a satirical short sold to The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His first feature Winter Kept Us Warm, made while he was a student at The University of Toronto, was the first English Canadian feature selected for The Cannes Film Festival, won awards in Amsterdam and Montreal, and is on TLA Video. His movie The Offering was nominated for a Canadian Film Award as Best Picture of the Year, screened on network television, and released theatrically by Columbia Pictures, who also distributed his family featurette The Harrowing Tale of the Haunted Lighthouse.

In New York City Secter founded Total Impact, a co-op media company active in a wide range of film, theater and television productions. He wrote, produced and directed the innovative comedy Feelin’ Up (aka Getting Together), released theatrically by Troma and on video by Vestron, which remains a cult favorite. His television credits include music specials starring Eartha Kitt and Talking Heads, travel series like The Pocono Show, numerous comedies, arts programs, documentaries and commercials, such as The Guinness World Records Hall, selected as a National Clio Award Finalist for the Year's Best Entertainment Production. For ten years as CEO and Artistic Director of EnterMedia, a Manhattan arts center, Secter produced and presented Obie Award-winning plays, music, dance and other events in a historic 1100 seat playhouse and several smaller theaters. One landmark project was American Mavericks, the first touring festival of US independent movies. EnterMedia launched such long-running Broadway musical hits as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Among additional theater credits, Secter wrote the book, lyrics and produced a celebrated Off-Broadway musical Get Thee To Canterbury.

Secter is in pre-production on An All American Family and Banjos & Bugles, as he plans Village Green, an Arts webcast. He is the subject of The Best of Secter & The Rest of Secter, a doc feature by his nephew Joel Secter (BestOfSecter.com), seen on Sundance Channel and CBC networks, and selected as Best Documentary at Canada’s Whistler Film Festival. An interview with David is included in Matthew Hays’s book The View From Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers, and his biography appears in various editions of Who's Who in Media, Who's Who in Entertainment and Who's Who in America.