Aug 25 2008
Great New Artists: David Lehre
Great New Artists: David Lehre
When David Lehre moved out to California it looked like the quality of his short films would go downhill but they didn’t. David Lehre is a YouTube sensation the difference is in the way he got to that point. Almost overnight his first short “MySpace: The Movie” struck gold (and an audience). As he puts it he was just saying what everyone else was thinking. It was true then and it’s even truer today especially now that sites like MySpace and the problems of internet dating have come to the mainstream media’s attention.
David Lehre started out making movies in high school while he was still living with his parents in Detroit Michigan. While there he and three friends won four new cars by winning the My Entourage contest held by the makers of the hit show “Entourage.” Recently he was chosen to work on a TV pilot for Fox prompting him to move to LA to make films full time earlier this year (2008). He has made several TV appearances recently including Current TV and 20/20. He was also the actor who appeared as the Ashton Kutcher character in the Punk’d parody in “Epic Movie.”
David loves doing parodies besides “MySpace: The Movie” and the My Entourage contest he has done a parody of Rick Astley called “Rick Roll Remix 2008” and a parody of David Blaine called “Raven Blaine (David Blaine’s Brother)” and “Harry Potter’s Magic Wand” which had one of the more adult themes of his early work. He has even done a parody of a song re-named “Squirrels Chase Squirrels.”
He has been working in the music industry by way of his filmmaking career producing a few high-quality serious music videos for independent bands and artists. These also have led to documentaries in the form of making-of videos to accompany not only the music videos but the filming of his TV pilot and even his trek across the country to LA.
His philosophy of filmmaking is exactly what many independent filmmakers envy: Make movies as quickly as possible with a group of people who just want to have fun learning about filmmaking. After your friends are out of film school with only two movies behind them you have a reel full of great shorts and clips and more short films than you could ever show if it weren’t for YouTube. And if you’re anything like David you also have a great music video, several making-ofs and a profile on Dateline about your small town success. In an age when technology is a 24/7 obsession with the average teen David Lehre is living the American dream.
Move Bounce Shake Music Video
Move Bounce Shake Making Of
