David New - R. Murray Schafer

David New is an award-winning writer and director of documentary and performing arts films. His credits include Too Good to be True, a documentary about the Avro Arrow; 14 episodes of The Secret World of Gardens; and Nine Lives: Muhammad Ali, a biography of Ali as seen through the eyes of those whose lives he changed. David's screenwriting credits include The War Symphonies, a portrait of Dmitri Shostakovich that garnered two Geminis and an International Emmy, and When the Fire Burns, a biography of composer Manuel de Falla, which won a Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival and a Gold Apple at the National Educational Film Festival.