David Malone (independent filmmaker) explained

David Malone
Birth Place:North Shields, Northumberland, England
Nationality:British
Television:Horizon
Other Names:Golem XIV (online pseudonym)
Occupation:Independent filmmaker, author and politician
Alma Mater:Swarthmore College
Parents:Adrian Malone
Party:Green Party of England and Wales

David Hugh Malone (born March 1962)[1] is a British independent filmmaker, Green Party politician, and author of The Debt Generation. He has directed television documentaries on philosophy, science and religion, originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC and Channel 4.

Malone lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and was the Green Party's parliamentary candidate for Scarborough and Whitby in the 2015 and 2017 general elections.

Documentary career

David Malone was born in North Shields and grew up in 1970s London.[2] His father, Adrian Malone, was also a documentary filmmaker, who produced The Ascent of Man with Jacob Bronowski and directed with Carl Sagan. Malone spent nine years in America and studied biological anthropology at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania before joining the BBC Science Department and working there for nine years. He ended up joining the production team for Horizon, a regular documentary series on science and philosophy.[3] [4]

Malone then left and started his own documentary company, I-330 Films, and moved to North Yorkshire.[5] I-330 Films was set up in 1995 by David Malone and his brother James Malone.[6] Malone was also listed as one of three Directors of becauseyouthink.tv, alongside David Paterson and Jan Klimkowski.[7] Malone's Testing God was shortlisted for the Royal Television Society's best documentary series award in 2002.[8] [9] He is currently a member of the University of Bradford's Film and Media Professional Advisory Board, which ensures the courses and operations of the department remain up-to-date.[10]

In 2016, Malone produced, directed, and co-presented the four-part documentary series Why Are We Here? The programmes followed Malone and his co-presenter Ard Louis as they met scientists and philosophers including Frank Wilczek, Roger Penrose, Gregory Chaitin, and Jane Goodall as they attempted to reconcile questions of meaning and purpose with science.

Political career

In 2008 Malone began commenting on the financial pages of The Guardian's website about the credit crunch and the ensuing financial crisis under the pseudonym Golem XIV, the name of a military supercomputer in a novel of the same name by the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem. Malone became a fierce critic of the bank bailouts arguing that they would lead to massive cuts in public spending. In November 2010 his book about the crisis, The Debt Generation, was published in the UK by Level Press. It had been edited by Mark Tanner from the different writings he had done in The Guardians comments section, which had totaled 600 pages of material.[11] In 2013 he was also interviewed over his book by Ross Ashcroft on his 'Renegade Economist' talk show.[12]

Malone has stood for election several times at various levels in Scarborough as a Green Party candidate:

In 2016, Malone stood in the Green Party leadership election, following the announcement that incumbent leader Natalie Bennett would not be standing.[17] He was running his campaign to encourage the party to focus more on finance and economics. During the campaign, he attended hustings and gave interviews to various news outlets covering the election.[18] [19] Left Foot Forward speculated that "he is likely to win the support of many not backing the Bartley-Lucas ticket" and "to come in the top three."[20] Voting took place from 25 July to 25 August, and the result was announced on 2 September at the party's Autumn Conference.[21] The result was a victory for Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas, who won as a job share candidacy with 86% of the vote. Malone came second with 956 votes, which equated to 6.1% of the vote.[22]

Works

Books

Documentaries

See also: List of Horizon episodes.

Killing the Creator

Darwin and the Divine

Credo Ergo Sum

Know Thyself

The Undiscovered Country

Are We Alone?

Why Are We Here?

Are We Real?

Meaning Seeking Beings

The Reality of Ideas

The Animal Within

The Moral Compass

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: David Hugh Malone. Check Company. 30 June 2016.
  2. Book: Malone. David. The Debt Generation. 2010. Level Press. Lancaster. 978-0-9566902-0-3. vi.
  3. Web site: About Me. Golem XIV. 7 September 2011. 3 July 2015.
  4. Web site: Why You Should Vote For David Malone. Medium. 25 July 2016. 12 September 2016.
  5. Web site: David Malone. The Institute of Arts and Ideas. 5 April 2015. dead. https://archive.today/20150405221729/http://iai.tv/home/speaker/david-malone. 5 April 2015.
  6. Web site: I-330. I-330 Films. 10 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20140626145556/http://i330.co.uk/i330.html. 26 June 2014.
  7. Web site: Directors . becauseyouthink.tv . 10 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071101020648/http://www.becauseyouthink.tv/directors/default.asp . 1 November 2007 . dead .
  8. News: Royal Television Society Programme Awards Nominees 2002. 10 July 2015. Broadcast Now. 26 February 2002.
  9. News: BBC film-maker's talk at Whitby Coliseum. 10 July 2015. Whitby Gazette. 17 February 2015.
  10. Web site: Film and Media Professional Advisory Board. University of Bradford. 30 June 2016.
  11. Book: Malone. David. The Debt Generation. 2010. Level Press. Lancaster. 978-0-9566902-0-3. vii-x. Second.
  12. Web site: Renegade Economist Talk Show – In Conversation with David Malone. Renegade Inc.. 16 March 2015. 17 July 2015.
  13. Web site: Election results for Falsgrave. Scarborough Borough Council. 5 April 2015. 4 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150704152654/http://democracy.scarborough.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=66&RPID=4788039. dead.
  14. Web site: Falsgrave and Stepney division results. North Yorkshire County Council. 5 April 2015.
  15. Web site: Next Elections. Scarborough and Whitby Green Party. 17 December 2014. 18 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141218015058/http://scarborough.greenparty.org.uk/electionslocalcountynycceuropeangeneral.html. dead.
  16. Web site: North Yorkshire County Council | Council elections 2017 . 2017-05-05 . 2017-05-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170510012946/http://elections.northyorks.gov.uk/electionresults/election/3/area/26 . dead .
  17. News: Walker. Peter. Five candidates in running for Green party leadership. 4 September 2016. The Guardian. 5 July 2016.
  18. Web site: ERS Quiz the Green Party Leadership Candidates on Democratic Reform. Electoral Reform Society. 4 September 2016. 2 August 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161021094410/http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/blog/ers-quiz-green-party-leadership-candidates-democratic-reform. 21 October 2016.
  19. News: Bailey. Tom. 'Progressive Alliance' takes centre stage at London leadership hustings. 4 September 2016. Bright Green. 20 July 2016.
  20. News: Mortimer. Josiah. Meet the Green Party leadership candidates. 4 September 2016. Left Foot Forward. 26 July 2016.
  21. News: Voting opens in Green Party's leadership contest. 4 September 2016. BBC News. 25 July 2016.
  22. News: Hughes. Laura. Caroline Lucas elected joint leader of the Green Party in first ever British political job share. 4 September 2016. The Daily Telegraph. 3 September 2016.
  23. Web site: Fossil Heroes. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  24. Web site: Wot U Lookin' At?. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  25. Web site: Far Side, The. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  26. Web site: Death Wish: The Untold Story. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  27. Web site: Icon Earth. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  28. Web site: Tibet: The Ice Mother. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  29. Web site: Inside the Internet. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  30. Web site: Testing God. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  31. Web site: Soul Searching. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  32. Web site: What We Still Don't Know (2004). British Film Institute. 10 July 2015.
  33. Web site: Stem Cells: The Promise. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  34. Web site: Voices in My Head (2006). https://web.archive.org/web/20150411131557/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b8bd16267. dead. 11 April 2015. British Film Institute. 10 July 2015.
  35. Web site: Dangerous Knowledge. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.
  36. Web site: High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos. British Universities Film & Video Council. 10 July 2015.

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