David Zellner

David Zellner

Born: January 1, 1974
in Greeley, Colorado, Stati Uniti
David Zellner is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He lives and works in Austin, Texas. He started his career by studying at the University of Texas film school and then staged exclusively Independent feature films and short films. He always works together with his younger brother Nathan Zellner under the name Zellner Bros

Movies for David Zellner...

Some of Our Stallions
Title: Some of Our Stallions
Character: Sam
Released: July 1, 2021
Type: Movie
After completing a mandatory stay at a mental hospital, two best friends decide that the only way they can reintegrate back into society is by finding romantic love.
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The Art of Self-Defense
Title: The Art of Self-Defense
Character: Henry
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
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Damsel
Title: Damsel
Character: Parson Henry
Released: June 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Oregon, a small town near the sea, around 1870. Henry, a grieving man who aspires to preach as a way to overcome his unfortunate past, reunites with eccentric pioneer Samuel Alabaster, who has hired him to officiate at his marriage to the precious Penelope. What Henry ignores is that both must embark on a dangerous journey through the inhospitable wilderness to meet her.
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Also Starring Austin
Title: Also Starring Austin
Released: May 5, 2018
Type: Movie
ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's rapidly changing built and natural environment and unique, enduring culture.
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Ghostbox Cowboy
Title: Ghostbox Cowboy
Character: Jimmy Van Horn
Released: April 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Tech entrepreneur Jimmy Van Horn arrives in China armed with an invention and confidence, only to learn that being American is not enough to succeed.
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Person to Person
Title: Person to Person
Character: Kent
Released: July 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
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There
Title: There
Character: Thrill
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A disgruntled veteran unable to adjust back into society justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien invasion.
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Title: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Character: Policeman
Released: November 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.
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Faults
Title: Faults
Character: Restaurant Manager
Released: March 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
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Love & Air Sex
Title: Love & Air Sex
Released: February 7, 2014
Type: Movie
When brokenhearted Stan flies to Austin for the weekend in hopes of "accidentally" running into his ex-girlfriend Cathy, he arrives to find their best friends Jeff and Kara in the middle of their own vicious breakup. Before too long, battle lines are drawn – and with the Air Sex World Championships in town, anything can go down.
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Title: Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Character: Zellner
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.
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Tug
Title: Tug
Character: Geno
Released: February 19, 2013
Type: Movie
A small town guy tries to decide between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex.
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Kid-Thing
Title: Kid-Thing
Character: Caleb
Released: January 23, 2012
Type: Movie
On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and smashes things up with her baseball bat. Her father, a goat-farmer-cum-demolition-derby driver, does little parenting. Annie has no friends her age, so her daily routine is filled with solitary mischief. Playing in the woods one day, she hears a woman’s plaintive call for help from an abandoned well. Though Annie feels driven to visit the well daily, she is unsure about how to deal with the woman’s plight.
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Dignity
Title: Dignity
Character: Lamb
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Agents Mr. Rainbow and Mr. Lamb are sent to an alien planet fighting a civil war. Their mission to destroy a perpetual motion machine is interrupted by their capture. While their interrogations proceed the two men struggle to come to terms with their suffering and pending death.
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Slacker 2011
Title: Slacker 2011
Character: Kid with Soda #1
Released: August 31, 2011
Type: Movie
Richard Linklater's SLACKER inspired a generation of American filmmakers by exploring the subculture of Austin, Texas in a loose narrative with a tapestry of quirky characters. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of that iconic movie, 24 of Austin's top filmmakers banded together to update SLACKER with their own perspectives on the city.
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Rooster Teeth Shorts: Volume Two
Title: Rooster Teeth Shorts: Volume Two
Character: The Businessman
Released: November 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Rooster Teeth Shorts returns with a vengeance, as well as a magical prototype, an evil button, a mystery box, an inter-dimensional sandwich, and a bunch of ridiculous jokes!
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Shit Year
Title: Shit Year
Character: Hal Ashland
Released: May 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Renowned actress Colleen West abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But the quiet and peace of mind she longed for is disrupted by the noisy construction of neighboring housing developments. Before long, Colleen discovers that she really can’t stand herself now that she has given up the only thing that she has ever truly been passionate about. As an alternative to isolation, she reluctantly befriends her jubilant, whimsical neighbor and reconnects with her estranged brother. Haunted by loneliness and past desires, Colleen begins to feel as if she has lived her life through the characters she has played on stage and screen. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
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Beeswax
Title: Beeswax
Character: Scott
Released: August 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Jeannie and her estranged business partner Amanda have a falling out leading to Amanda getting back with an ex and Jeannie bonding more with her non-paralyzed twin Lauren.
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Baghead
Title: Baghead
Character: Festival Goer
Released: January 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?
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Goliath
Title: Goliath
Released: January 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A recently divorced man tries to find the one aspect of his marriage that still matters to him: his missing cat, Goliath.
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Pardon My Downfall
Title: Pardon My Downfall
Released: January 17, 2008
Type: Movie
The tragic 1978 story of the The Jibcutters, the last great American alt-bluegrass band.
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Untitled (Thanks. Get in...)
Title: Untitled (Thanks. Get in...)
Character: The Star
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of an aspiring young Hollywood actor who, while hitchhiking to see his agent, is picked-up by a lecherous, cynical Cary Grant.
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Aftermath On Meadowlark Lane
Title: Aftermath On Meadowlark Lane
Character: Mariachi Brother #1
Released: January 21, 2007
Type: Movie
While on their way to a mariachi recital, a devastating car crash forces a mother and her two sons to confront the truth about their past.
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Redemptitude
Title: Redemptitude
Character: Preacher
Released: January 19, 2006
Type: Movie
A black comedy about an altruistic yet deranged preacher who heads deep into the Australian Outback in hopes of saving the soul of a man who has abandoned his faith.
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Title: PANICS
Character: Frank
Released: September 27, 2005
Type: TV
PANICS or P.A.N.I.C.S., an acronym for People Acting Normal In Crazy-Ass Situations, is a comic science fiction series created by Rooster Teeth Productions and released in 2005. The series was produced primarily by using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from video games to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. The series was produced at the request of Monolith Productions as a part of a tie-in with the Director's Edition of the video game F.E.A.R. which the Rooster Teeth team used to produce the series. The story centers on a newcomer to Bravo Team, a special military group formed to battle supernatural enemies. As the series begins, Bravo Team has been sent into a military facility at night to investigate the reports of paranormal activity from within. This is a parody of the main scenario used in F.E.A.R.
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Foxy and the Weight of the World
Title: Foxy and the Weight of the World
Character: Despicable young man
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: Movie
A despicable young man, at the end of his life, espouses his comically bleak and bitter world view to his only friend, his dog Foxy.
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Rummy
Title: Rummy
Character: Sam
Released: April 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Sam (David Zellner) runs into Lacey (Stephanie Wilson) walking her dog in the park. She doesn’t seem too thrilled to see him. But he is really, really thrilled to see Choo-Choo. The dog used to be his and he is less-than-thrilled to learn that Lacey has since re-named the dog Rummy. This fateful first encounter (after a break-up three years ago) triggers a rapid escalation of tensions in this typically funny and bizarre early Zellner tale.
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Frontier
Title: Frontier
Character: Officer
Released: March 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Strangers in a strange land, Bulbovia’s dimmest explorers attempt to dutifully colonize a new world but soon find their buttoned-up shirts and rational thoughts melting away into beetle-eating, tree-molesting, wife-swapping chaos.
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Plastic Utopia
Title: Plastic Utopia
Character: James
Released: October 4, 1997
Type: Movie
In a world where moral corruption and prosperity go hand-in-hand, James is out of his element. He's unpopular, whiny and cranky, not to mention a second-rate street mime fond of belittling his audience. James longs for a life or reckless abandon, much like that of his unscrupulous roommate Frank Feldspar - a thief, murderer, and a professional poet who is loved by all. James enthusiastically embraces the lifestyle of a hardened criminal, and he teams up with Frank for a daring armed robbery. *Notes from IMDB*