Dave Morrison
Dave Morrison was born in New York City, raised in London and on the East Coast.
Early Life
The son of an American Corporate lawyer working in London and a school teacher, he is the eldest of six children. As a child, he attended St Anne's school in NYC and Hill House School in London. His High School education followed at the prestigious prep school, Choate Rosemary Hall. He graduated from NYU with a degree in Political Science and Economics.
Career
He began his work career as a receptionist for a commercial directors' sales rep firm. Within 6 months he became a sales rep for PIXAR, Epoch films, Colossal pictures, Palomar pictures and Tony Kaye films. In 1995 after many offers to join Propaganda/Satellite Films Commercial division, he became the co-head of the Division. He began working very closely with director/owner David Fincher and launched and developed the commercials careers of directors like Gore Verbinski, Dante Ariola, Michael Bay, and Alex Proyas, to name a few.
Anonymous Content
With the encouragement of David Fincher and the promise of ownership, Dave started a new venture with Fincher and Steve Golin, Anonymous Content. At Anonymous Content he continued to work with many of the Propaganda directors, spearheaded, developed and created, with Fincher, the much vaunted BMW films series, and also enlisted directors such as Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Guy Ritchie, Wong Kar Wei, Ang Lee, Joe Koisinski and Alfonso Cuaron.
Reset Content
In August of 2011 Dave severed his relationship with Steve Golin, and co-founded RESET with David Fincher In the summer of 2012. With a website that Launched in September of 2012, RESET now represents a roster of directors that includes: David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer, Guy Ritchie, Andre Stringer, Andrew Douglas, Nabil, Johnny Green, PES, Romain Gavras, Vesa Maninninen, Garth Davis, Tim Miller, Johan Renck and Markus Walter.
In the UK RESET is exclusively with Academy films, Glazer's company. In France RESET is exclusive to Iconoclast.
Filmography
As Producer:
- Cobain: Montage of Heck (Documentary) (co-executive producer) 2015
- Oblivion (executive producer) 2013
- Un Rendez-vous (Short) (executive producer) 2010
- Write the Future (TV Short) (executive producer) 2010
- 44 Inch Chest (executive producer) 2009
- Pandorum (executive producer) 2009
- There's Only One Sun (Short) (executive producer) 2007
Thanks:
- Act of Valor (special thanks) 2012