Bio:
David Hoffman is a communications disruptive innovator (a winner of the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award). He an authentic voice who uses video in innovative ways to help others reach out to their audiences and motivate them.
Hoffman has 3 careers and he has done them simultaneously. He is a veteran documentary filmmaker with more than 150 network television shows and series, 5 documentary feature films, and hundreds of corporate, educational and short subject films to his credit. He has won just about every major national and international film award. Some of his films are viewable here.
He's also a corporate communicator who has worked to help individual corporate leaders and companies to communicate their products, services and values to their target audiences. His clients have included AT&T, United Technologies, Sony, Google, and Amazon among the Fortune 100, as well as numerous startups.
He is also considered a YouTube and Google Adwords “guru”. He has helped companies and individual content creators find their audiences on YouTube and he has more than 60 million views on his YouTube channel where clips from his work are shown.
He speaks regularly at conferences and at film schools such as Johns Hopkins, the Columbia School of Journalism, and Hampshire College, among many others.
In creating and supervising LabTV mini documentaries, Hoffman is experimenting using extremely lightweight equipment to create what he calls “one-man band films.” Hoffman has also created a style that allows each individual land researcher to shine and present themselves in ways that motivate.
Quotes, Notes & Etc.
I have one top prize ribbon awards at virtually every national and international film Festival with the exception of an Academy award. This includes Emmys, top prizes at the festivals in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Edinburgh, Berlin, and many others.
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).