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David Zellner

David Zellner

2 films · 125 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20182019

Born 1 January 1974 · Greeley, Colorado, Stati Uniti

David Zellner is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He lives and works in Austin, Texas. He started his career by studying at the University of Texas film school and then staged exclusively Independent feature films and short films. He always works together with his younger brother Nathan Zellner under the name Zellner Bros

How their films are shot

Measured across 125 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work David takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 56% of their frames are day, 60% natural — the look of the work David takes.

Time of day

Day56%
Night28%
Interior8%
Golden hour7%

Lighting

Natural60%
Low key29%
High key6%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium34%
Wide31%
Closeup15%
Fullbody14%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
Low angle7%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral64%
Tense18%
Lonely13%
Ominous4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 125 frames from David Zellner's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.