In 2004, he completed his studies at the French film school CLCF and started working as an assistant for American documentary director Peter Friedman.
In 2008–2009, he assisted Andrew Kötting on directing Ivul,[3] and then edited the movie, an official selection at the Locarno Film Festival.
[8] Between 2012 and 2018, David was based in Beijing, where he wrote original scripts and adaptations of western films and books for the Chinese market and worked extensively with actor Feng Xiao Yue.
Since 2018 David, has adaptated of Dov Alfon's book, Long Night in Paris, together with Leora Kamenetzky[11] and co-written an original series for Yellow Bird.
[12] David is the co-founder of Dark Riviera, a Stockholm-based intellectual property generator for television, graphic novels and video games, along with producer Emilie Blezat,[13] graphic novelist Sylvain Runberg and video game producer Robert Bäckström.