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  1. Jun 10, 2024 · I recently spoke by phone with filmmaker David Schisgall, who directed the just-released documentary Theo Who Lived ( which I also reviewed ). The film tells the story of the kidnapping, captivity and eventual release of conflict reporter Peter Theo Padnos, held in Syria by an Al Qaeda affiliate for almost two years, as seen through ...

  2. Oct 6, 2016 · The writer and director David Schisgall follows Mr. Padnos around his old quarters in Turkey, and recreates the basement rooms and cells in Syria in which Mr. Padnos was held, at one point in...

  3. Aug 19, 2011 · Our Idiot Brother,” directed by Jesse Peretz and written by his sister, Evgenia Peretz, and her husband, David Schisgall, takes on siblings’ lives.

  4. David Schisgall has worked as a director and writer in documentary film since 1991. His feature directorial credits include Theo Who Lived (2016), Very Young Girls (2007), and The Lifestyle: Group Sex in the Suburbs (1999).

  5. Apr 16, 1999 · Swinging Verite, David Schisgall Enters “The Lifestyle”. Premiering this weekend at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Independent Film. Festival is David Schisgalls “ The Lifestyle ,” a ...

  6. David Schisgall is known for True Life (1998), Our Idiot Brother (2011) and Very Young Girls (2007).

  7. Oct 20, 2016 · In David Schisgalls involving documentary, “Theo Who Lived,” Padnos revisits the country where he was held, in various locations, for 22 months, and reenacts his experiences in such torture ...