DAVID MCCRACKEN is a Director Writer Producer and Actor with a long and varied career in filmmaking and writing He earned his MFA in Film Television Production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts has an MA in Creative Writing from Ball State University and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville McCracken has been awarded numerous grants scholarships and honors for his creative work most notably the prestigious 2011 USC James Bridges Memorial Scholarship for Directing the 2012 Alfred P Sloan Science Foundation Production Award and the USC Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Award for his short film I Am Become Death OstrichLand McCrackens USC graduate thesis film played at more than thirty festivals around the world including Vancouver Australia and Hong Kong It won the Alexis Jury Prize for Best Emerging Student Filmmaker at Palm Springs Best Student Film at Carmel International and Best EditingBest Comedy finalist at USCs First Film McCracken is a coowner of the production company Mr Pictures Their first film was the 1970s actionthriller BULLITT COUNTY