David Grandison on Clubhouse

Bio

http://MusicOrigins.org
[Executive Producer, writer, curator - The Music Origins Project]

http://GSGEDM.com
[Filmmaker- God Said Give Em Drum Machines and Electric Roots (official Cannes selection)]

I am an award winning production executive and I produce video, and VR, games and apps. I’m currently Director of Instructional Design at Yellowbrick a company that connects top media brands with universities. I led the production of courses combining video, game like assessments and VR like NYU Tisch Film School x Rolling Stone Magazine Film Industry Essentials, Complex x Parsons Streetwear Essentials, Complex x FIT Sneaker Essentials, Sports Industry Essentials, and the Billboard x Clive Davis Institute Music Industry Essentials.

As Executive Producer at BrainPOP.com I led the development of over 300 short animations and the Game Up educational game portal. My team also launched and worked to create the educational games: Guts and Bolts, The Meaning Of Beep, Food Fight, Chronopticon, Sortify, and the interactive concept mapping tool Make-a-Map.

As Sr Producer / Director of Instructional Design I led the conceptualization of the non profit AMAZE. I produced over 30 award winning short animations for kids on health and the AMAZE.org website.

I’m a transmedia filmmaker and co-founder of DIYdoc, an iOS App that enables anyone to crowdsource the creation of short films. I hope to democratize filmmaking to allow people to create stories to help causes on smartphones. Alecia Keys’ We Are Here movement sponsored templates to help draw attention to the struggles of activists, refugees and people with HIV. We have partnered with Brooklyn DA’s Office to create news stories and PSA’s to improve STEM skills and to create positive engagement between youth and the prosecutor’s office.

I founded the Music Origins Project (MusicOrigins.org) where we explore the origins of music and I geolocate the stories we uncover. We enable users to visit a location in VR using 360-degree video cameras granted to my team by Google. Electric Roots, a doc that I produced, on the DJ, and Producers Richie Hawtin and Black Coffee made its premier at the Cannes Short Film Corner (2014). I’m also a Producer on the film, God Said Give Em Drum Machines, a film on the history of Techno that will be out this summer (2021).