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Written by David Zaccheus
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Tuesday, 12 December 2006 |
David has worked as a stills photographer, film crew, and casting agent, and has doubled for an Academy Award winning actor in a feature film. He has written/directed two short films:
‘China Plates’, (about mateship), and ‘Learning 2 Fly’ (about rejection).
David was born in Devonport, New Zealand in 1956. His father was a disabled war veteran of the Second World War, returning home from the Middle East to New Zealand on a hospital ship in 1945, having been told he would never work again, and that he may only live another 2 years. He lived another 34 years, till 1979. David was 23.
“From as old as I was to know what death was," says David, "I knew my Dad could die at any time, so I knew I was different. I guess I’m a rare bird, too. An Oddfellow. I sort of march to the beat of my own conundrum.”
David has now written a book based on his father’s life, as seen through the eyes of his only son. The book is entitled ‘Oddfellow’. He is currently working on a script for "Oddfellow", the feature. It will be his first feature length film; showing the futility of war, and particularly its effect upon the life of a small boy, otherwise thought of as being raised in one of the most peaceful countries on planet Earth.
David sees the sub-conscious mirror image of this legacy in elements woven throughout his own fiction work, particularly in a novel he wrote entitled ‘Playing For Keeps’. It’s set in Byron Bay at the easternmost point of the Australian mainland, and portrays the actions and reactions of several completely different characters, who are challenged to peel back the layers masking their own emotional pain.
David Zaccheus says he felt compelled to start writing after a series of events led him to examine his own sub-conscious a little more closely; and to incorporate within the plot, characters with combinations of traits and characteristics similar to his own, or to those shared by other rare birds he’d met around the world.
The whole question surrounding conflict has been somewhat of a personal challenge for David, and one that he has spent much of his life grappling with. From religion to business, to war; from David's perspective, the pattern of conflict seems to remain the same.
The message David imparts is the same, too: ‘Peace by Peace’.
David lives in Brisbane, Australia.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 January 2008 )
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