David Garrett

David Garrett Byars made his directorial debut at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival with NO MAN’S LAND (Tribeca Film Festival 2017, Independent Lens), a documentary about the 2016 militia occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Byars also produced and lensed MASSACRE RIVER (Hot Docs 2019, ITVS, PBS) Suzan Beraza’s film about statelessness in the Dominican Republic. Byars’ latest film, PUBLIC TRUST, premiered at the Big Sky Film Festival in 2020, where it won the juried Big Sky Award, and has over 2.4 million streams to date.