: About Me

After a career in Marketing Communications, I turned my attention to writing screenplays and novels and producing/directing short films through my company, Entellegint Entertainment, LLC.

To date, I've written three feature length screenplays and a science fiction novel. Two short films based on my screenplays have premiered at major film festivals in South Florida. To view writing samples and film clips, please visit www.davidgittlin.com.

I'm happily married and the proud father of a wonderful daughter, Danielle, who is a sophomore honor student at Florida Atlantic University.

My passion is ...

Writing

I know too much about ...

Nothing

My parents always told me ...

To get busy

My childhood ambition ...

To be a professional golfer

My favorite memory ...

Going to the race track with my best friend

Why I write ...

For enjoyment and a feeling of accomplishment

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

John Grisham, Joel Osteen, the IN TREATMENT series on HBO

My first job ...

Pulling and packing wallpaper orders - Ugh!

My best moment ...

Placing second in a screenwriting contest/Going to FAU basketball games with my daughter

My inspiration ...

Inspirational books and seminars

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: People we miss

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I remember the day my father asked me to be a partner in the stable. He was sitting behind his desk in the temporary office space we rented at the time, dressed in a camel colored sport coat and checkered cotton sport shirt. He looked straight at me with his bright, keen eyes and proceeded to make an offer that took me back to my secret weekend excursions in high school. My best friend and I discovered the excitement of the sport of kings while listening to the Kentucky Derby of harness racing, known as The Hambletonian, on the radio one night. We were seventeen at the time, too young to p...

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