ABOUT
A Mythical Creature:
part Man, part Caffeine.
David Barbeschi is a multi-award winning screenwriter who grew up collecting nationalities the way other kids collected Pokémon cards (born in Holland, raised in Italy, France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, with Italian and Armenian parents).
David treats screenwriting like a scientist would: research and identify the problem in the script, zero in on the solution, and make sure the whole structure holds when production pressure hits and rewrites inevitably ensue.
Built on Blockbusters and Bedtime Stories
David was raised on Zorro and Three Musketeers swordfights, Jurassic Park thrills and Star Wars heroics. Add a few pinches of myths and tales (as you would with someone with his multi-cultural background) and you get his blueprint: swashbuckling fun, high-stake drama and diverse characters who stick with you long after the credits roll.
What he took from them isn’t just spectacle, but the balance of big emotions grounded in stories you can actually put on screen.
To reproduce the success of the stories that shaped his childhood, David condensed his approach to writing down to three things:
absorbing stories, telling stories, fixing stories.
The "Yes, but can we shoot it?" Approach
Call him crazy, but David loves to have his stories actually get made into films. Weird, right? Thus, he always keeps one eye on production reality: budgets, logistics, what’s actually shootable. Years of production management taught him that a script isn’t just words on paper, it’s a blueprint for dozens of people to follow.
His goal? To entertain first, then sneak in the heavy stuff when you’re not looking (David prides himself of making people cry during table-reads of his scripts).
Trivia Nobody Needed, But Now You Know
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Fluent in three languages (Italian, French, and English), but curses in four, so his Salvadorian partner can join him in the swearing.
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Keeps a collection of 779 Star Wars quotes. Check out his blog, it could double as a doctoral thesis.
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Once had to fix a 312-page script, with whole swaths written in the author's own alien alphabet. David and the producers who hired him are still recovering from the trauma.
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Is color-blind (in spite of working in illustration and graphic design for a decade).
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