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David Bond is an Edmonton-based producer, writer and film executive with more than two decades in independent horror and genre cinema. He founded Dark Elegy Films and is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA). He has built long-standing relationships with filmmakers, festival programmers, sales agents and distributors across Canada, the United States, Latin America and Europe. Bond co-wrote and produced Anthony DiBlasi’s Extremity, which was shot in and around Edmonton and screened at DEDfest, before becoming the first Canadian film sold to Dread. He also executive produced Amelia Moses’s Bloodthirsty, an Edmonton-area production that closed Fantastic Fest and earned two Canadian Screen Award nominations for original score and original song. Bond executive produced David Amito and Michael Laicini’s Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, a Canadian horror film built around the legend of a cursed print. It screened at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Sitges and South Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. In spring 2020, it reached No. 1 among trending movies on Amazon Prime in the United States and went viral internationally on TikTok. His four Certified Fresh films on Rotten Tomatoes are Antrum, Bloodthirsty, Huesera: The Bone Woman and Deathstalker, all of which he executive produced. For Huesera, Michelle Garza Cervera won the Nora Ephron Award and Best New Narrative Director at Tribeca, as well as the Citizen Kane Award for Best New Director at Sitges. The film also took Sitges’ Blood Window Award and four Ariel Awards in Mexico, including Best First Feature and Best Original Screenplay. Deathstalker premiered at Locarno and won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival. Bond produced Mickey Reece’s Every Heavy Thing, a darkly comic Oklahoma thriller starring Josh Fadem, Vera Drew and Barbara Crampton. It had its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, made its U.S. debut at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles and went on to screen at Sitges. Winning at Brooklyn, before being sold to Utopia. He executive produced Nick Simon’s What Happened to Doris?, starring Heather Graham and Mimi Rogers. The film revisits the case of Doris Bither, whose reports of a haunting inspired The Entity. It had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin and screened in the Panorama section at Sitges. Set to be released in 2027. Bond is a founding member of the Fantastic Pavilion and The Fantastic Organization. As Head of Strategy for the Pavilion, the genre film hub at the Marché du Film in Cannes, he helps connect filmmakers and producers with festival programmers and buyers. The Fantastic Organization is an international nonprofit that supports the development and promotion of genre cinema. His international producing collaborations include Isaac Ezban’s Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse in Mexico and John Farrelly’s An Taibhse (The Ghost) in Ireland. He consults for several film sales companies on acquisitions, festival strategy and international distribution. He also has development deals on various Stephen King and Clive Barker projects. Most of his films can be found of the streaming platform, Shudder.