David Herman
Producer/Director
David Herman was born in South Africa in 1950 and left at 16 in order to avoid serving in the apartheid army. He went to Atlantic College in Wales where he majored in English Literature and Economics. He worked as a freelance photographer in Europe and the Middle East for a number of years before before becoming a television cameraman in Israel, London, and Washington, D.C. In 1985 David Herman became an independent filmmaker producing and directing documentaries. In 1987 he won an Emmy for 7th & T, the story of the Washington, D.C. neighborhood around the first African American theatre in the U.S. In 1989 he returned to the UK and did a three-year training in biodynamic agriculture. He has worked as a biodynamic farmer, living in a community with adults with learning disabilities since then, while continuing to produce documentary films.