David Hewlett
☼ Born on 18 December 1968, in Redhill, Surrey, England, UK
BiographyDavid Hewlett is an actor and life-long learning advocate with a passion for assistive technologies. Inspired by his childhood fear and fascination with Doctor Who, he wanted to become a genius Time Lord...reality led him to acting. David is the husband of the brilliant and beautiful, award winning, Producer, Jane Loughman. David created TechBandits.org, a curiosity driven Science, Technology, Engineering Arts and Math club for kids of all ages that promotes life-long learning via YouTube and Twitch, as well as in-person events at local schools and community centers. His enthusiasm for assistive tech led him to partner with gamer, influencer and raconteur Lance Carr and Google on GameFace, an AI-powered head tracking mouse released at GoogleIO 2023. David also works with the University of Toronto on his educational Escape Room design learning initiative. Beyond his creative endeavors, David actively speaks at conferences and podcasts worldwide. His goal is to inspire the next generation of brilliant minds to "be brave, be kind, be curious".
In the role of actor
Levels (02/11/2024)
A man begins to question his reality after witnessing the apparent murder of his girlfriend in Levels. Joe (Peter Mooney) is a seemingly average man, who has recently begun dating Ash (Cara Gee). On a date, Ash is about to reveal a big secret about herself to Joe, when she is suddenly gunned down at […]
The Swearing Jar – TIFF 2022 (11/09/2022)
A woman deal with the complexities of love and relationships in The Swearing Jar. Carey (Adelaide Clemens) finds herself reluctantly falling for bookstore clerk Owen (Douglas Smith). However, the problem is that Carey is still deeply in love with her husband Simon (Patrick J. Adams). The couple seems happy as Carey announces that she is […]
A Thousand Cuts (30/05/2020)
A Filipino journalist faces immense backlash for herself and her outlet, in response to her criticism of the President of the Philippines in A Thousand Cuts. Maria Ressa is the co-founder of the Filipino news website Rappler which has been the victim of constant online harassment, as well as lawsuits and arrest warrants brought about by […]
The Shape of Water (11/12/2017)
A mute cleaning woman befriends and tries to help an amphibious creature in The Shape of Water. Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) is a mute and lonely woman, who lives in apartment above a cinema in 1960s Baltimore and takes care of her neighbour Giles (Richard Jenkins). Elisa works with her friend Zelda Fuller (Octavia Spencer) as […]
Haunter (20/09/2013)
Director Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice) returns with a film that can be best described as a “reverse ghost story.” Lisa (Abigail Breslin) is a teenaged girl, who begins to realize that she and her family are performing the exact same routines every day. In addition, their house is surrounded by an endless fog and Lisa […]
Splice (05/06/2010)
Well, I am back in Canada and for my first film back I decided to see what can already be considered a Canadian success story (by the fact that it is a rare example of a Canadian film with an American distributor). Splice is a film by Vincenzo Natali, who is probably best known for […]