David Max Steinberg is a director, producer, and former I.A.T.S.E Local 600 director of photography, originally from New York, NY.
Currently teaching at USC School of Cinematic Arts and San Diego State University's Department of Theater, Film, and Television,
Steinberg previously designed the production curriculum for the University of California, San Diego's Digital Arts Center (DAC VSMG), located in La Jolla, CA.
Professional: M.F.A. NYU's Graduate Institute of Film & Television (1985). B.A UCSD Visual Arts (1980). Former I.A.T.S.E. Local 600 Director of Photography (1991 -2000).
Steinberg's feature directorial debut, an NYU thesis film, ("Severance" 1988), won an invitation to appear in Italy at the Florence Feature Film Festival where it was picked up for international distribution by Fox/Lorber Associates in New York.
He was subsequently signed as a young director/cameraman with the William Morris Agency in NYC in the fall of 1989.
He was invited to join I.A.T.S.E 644 in 1991, while shooting a Nickelodeon feature starring Abe Vigoda, Sherman Helmsley and "Champion Joe" Frazier.
In 1993, Steinberg moved to Los Angeles where he photographed the feature, "Silent Victim", directed by Menahem Golan of Cannon Films (Michele Greene, Kyle Secor).
Music video credits involve projects for Prince, Roxy Music, Lee Ritenour, Diamond Rio, Miles Davis, Donald Fagan and more.

