Arvind Ethan David is head producer and CEO at slingshot, the next generation film company which he co-founded in 2005. Arvind leads both business and creative strategy for the company, and has served as a producer on all of the company’s films to date - SUGARHOUSE, FRENCH FILM, FAINTHEART, TORMENTED and currently THE INFIDEL.
Immediately prior to slingshot, Arvind served as Commercial Advisor to Headline Pictures, the production company set up by Mark Shivas, Stewart Mackinnon and Kevin Hood. Between 2003 to 2004, Arvind was Interim Managing Director of Ruby Films, working to Oscar-nominated producer Alison Owen. In 1999 he founded and ran hahabonk, one of the UK’s early internet entertainment companies producing more than 100 short animated films and interactive games for cable television and broadband internet, in the course of which, helping to launch the careers of such comedians as Jimmy Carr, Mackenzie Crook and The Hollow Men.

In addition to his career as producer and entrepreneur, Arvind is also a qualified solicitor, and an occasional writer: his stage-show DIRK, based on the Douglas Adams character, won three prizes in the 2007 LA Weekly Theatre Awards, and he is currently co-writing BEASTS IN THE JUNGLE, a feature film that slingshot will produce in Summer 2010.
Arvind is a member of the British Screen Advisory Council, the PACT Film Policy Group, spends too much time speaking at conferences and is a regular guest lecturer at London Business School. Arvind grew up between Kuala Lumpur and London, speaks Malay (badly) and Spanish (even more badly) and likes to blog (www.slingshot-studios.com/blog).