David Lowery (director)

David Lowery
Lowery at the Deauville Film Festival, 2013
Born	(1980-12-26) December 26, 1980 (age 36) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Education	Irving High School, Irving, Texas
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, film editor, cinematographer, film producer, actor
Spouse(s)	Augustine Frizzell

David Lowery is an American filmmaker based in Dallas, Texas.

David Lowery is the eldest of nine children. His family moved to Irving when he was seven, after his father received a job teaching theology at the University of Dallas. Just out of Irving High School, he wrote and directed his first film, Lullaby.

David Lowery had his breakthrough with his first feature film, St. Nick, which follows two runaway children abandoned by their guardians. The film played in South by Southwest in 2009. It won the Texas Filmmaker Award at the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival. In 2011, he wrote and directed the short film entitled Pioneer, which played at Sundance Film Festival.

In 2013, Lowery directed his second feature film, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, which starred Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It was selected to compete at the International Critics' Week section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

In addition to having edited films such as Amy Seimetz's Sun Don't Shine and Shane Carruth's Upstream Color, he also co-wrote Pit Stop with director Yen Tan.

At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, it was announced that Lowery would write and direct the film adaptation of 2012 National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds written by war veteran Kevin Powers. The film was eventually directed by Alexandre Moors and stars Jack Huston, Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich and Jennifer Aniston.