David Aboussafy is a Vancouver based writer, producer, actor, and film festival founder and director. He is CEO of Generativity Productions, a Vancouver based film investment and production company with a focus on low budget genre film, and Partner, Production and Development for Darkside Releasing, a Vancouver-based international distribution company with a presence at all major film markets. He is also Co-founder and Co-director of the Vancouver Badass Film Festival, an international genre film festival for short and feature films. A lifelong fan of offbeat horror, SF, noir, and extreme film, David Aboussafy has been active producing and co-producing genre projects since 2006, and attempting to write for the screen since his teen years in the late 1980s. David Aboussafy is married to mezzo-soprano Melanie Adams, they have two children. He has a doctorate from McGill University in Montreal, and an active practice in clinical and rehabilitation psychology. Show less «