Grainger David's short film The Chair won the Jury Prize at SXSW and went on to screen in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A South Carolina native and graduate of Princeton University and NYU Grad Film, Grainger has received generous support for his work from the South Carolina Film Commission, the San Francisco Film Society, the Sloan Foundation, and the 2017 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Directors Lab.
During his residency, David worked on a short film called The Edge of the Woods and a feature script called The Wall at the End of the Road, which was further developed in the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab.
