‏David Wilkinson‏

David Nicholas Wilkinson, founder and current owner of Guerilla Films is probably unique in the UK entertainment industry in that he has been involved in so many different areas since he entered the industry in 1969. He was an award winning actor. He has produced and/or distributed around 100 feature films in the cinema, on DVD, TV and online. He has also hosted and organised over 400 Q&A's/ PA's events in the UK and Ireland.He has participated on almost one hundred film panels chairing over a dozen of them at BAFTA, Screen Yorkshire, Screen South, Bradford Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh etc. Since 1999 he has run and chaired Meet the Experts at the Edinburgh Film Festival and London Film Festival with senior financiers, producers, commission editors, sales agents etc. giving help and advice to new emerging filmmakers. He now hosts this event at the London Screenwriters Festival.Wilkinson has appeared on a great many film competition juries in the UK, Germany, France, Lithuania, Turkey and Ireland. He has also written numerous magazine / newspaper articles and books on the many aspects of the film industry. He has also appeared on BBC TV, BBC Radio Four's "Today" programme, Radio 5 Live, Channel 4 News, ZDF, SKY News, CNN News, NBC News etc, and been interviewed for countless newspapers articles such as The Sunday Times, talking about film production and distribution.From 1999 until 2014 Wilkinson's Guerilla Films only released British & Irish productions/ co-productions within the UK & Ireland, specialising in those films that other distributors thought difficult and un-commercial. Since Louis Le Prince made the worlds first film on 14th October 1888, no other British distribution company has ever made such a strong and wholehearted commitment to British films.He has now returned to production and only tends to distribute films he is involved in producing.