David Malone (independent filmmaker)

David Malone
Born	North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England
Nationality	British
Other names	Golem XIV (online pseudonym)
Alma mater	Swarthmore College
Occupation	Independent filmmaker, author and politician
Television	Horizon
Political party	Green Party
Parent(s)	Adrian Malone

David Hugh Malone (born March 1962)^[1] is a British independent filmmaker, Green Party politician, and author of The Debt Generation. He has directed television documentaries on philosophy, science and religion, originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC and Channel 4.

Malone lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and was the Green Party's parliamentary candidate for Scarborough and Whitby in the 2015 general election.

Documentary career

David Malone was born in North Shields and grew up in 1970s London.^[2] His father, Adrian Malone, was also a documentary filmmaker, who produced The Ascent of Man with Jacob Bronowski and directed Cosmos: A Personal Voyage with Carl Sagan.^[3] Malone spent nine years in America and studied biological anthropology at Swarthmore College before joining the BBC Science Department and working there for nine years. He ended up joining the production team for Horizon, a regular documentary series on science and philosophy.^[4][5]

Malone then left and started his own documentary company, I-330 Films, and moved to North Yorkshire.^[3] I-330 Films was set up in 1995 by David Malone, and his brother James Malone.^[6] Malone was also listed as one of three Directors of becauseyouthink.tv, alongside David Paterson and Jan Klimkowski.^[7] Malone's Testing God was shortlisted for the Royal Television Society's best documentary series award in 2002.^[8][9] He is currently a member of the University of Bradford's Film and Media Professional Advisory Board, which ensures the courses and operations of the department remain up-to-date.^[10]

Political career

In 2008 Malone began commenting on the financial pages of The Guardian's website about the credit crunch and the ensuing financial crisis under the pseudonym Golem XIV, the name of a military supercomputer in a novel of the same name by the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem. Malone became a fierce critic of the bank bailouts arguing that they would lead to massive cuts in public spending. In November 2010 his book about the crisis, The Debt Generation, was published in the UK by Level Press. It had been edited by Mark Tanner from the different writings he had done in The Guardian's comments section, which had totaled 600 pages of material.^[11] Malone was interviewed about his book by Max Keiser during Episode 114 of the Keiser Report, a program that features on Russia Today.^[12] In 2013 he was also interviewed over his book by Ross Ashcroft on his 'Renegade Economist' talk show.^[13]

In the 2011 Scarborough Borough Council election, he stood as the Green Party candidate in the Falsgrave ward, where he came fourth and won 11% of the vote.^[14] Malone has also stood as the Green Party's candidate in the Falsgrave and Stepney ward of the North Yorkshire County Council. In the 2009 County Council election, he came third with 21% of the vote, and in the 2013 County Council election he came fourth with 17% of the vote.^[15] He was the Green Party's parliamentary candidate for Scarborough and Whitby in the 2015 general election, where he came fourth with 2,185 votes (or 4.6% of the vote). He also stood in the 2015 Scarborough Borough Council election for the Green Party in Stepney Ward.^[16]

In 2016, Malone stood in the Green Party leadership election, following the announcement that incumbent leader Natalie Bennett would not be standing.^[17] He was running his campaign to encourage the party to focus more on finance and economics. During the campaign, he attended hustings and gave interviews to various news outlets covering the election.^[18][19] Left Foot Forward speculated that "he is likely to win the support of many not backing the Bartley-Lucas ticket" and "to come in the top three."^[20] Voting took place from 25 July to 25 August, and the result was announced on 2 September at the party's Autumn Conference.^[21] The result was a victory for Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas, who won as a job share candidacy with 86% of the vote. Malone came second with 956 votes, which equated to 6.1% of the vote.^[22]

Works

Books

• The Debt Generation (edited by Mark Tanner, Level Press, York: 2010), ISBN 0956690203

Documentaries

• Fossil Heroes (for the BBC's Horizon; 1992)^[23]
• Wot U Lookin' At? (for Horizon; 1993)^[24]
• The Far Side (for Horizon; 1994)^[25]
• Death Wish: The Untold Story (for Horizon; 1994)^[26]
• Icon Earth (for Horizon; 1995)^[27]
• Tibet: The Ice Mother (for Horizon; 1995)^[28]
• Inside the Internet (for the BBC's Computers Don't Bite; 1997)^[29]
• The Flow of Time (1999)
• Secrets of the Incas (2000)
• Testing God (2001),^[30] in three episodes:

  Killing the Creator

  Darwin and the Divine

  Credo Ergo Sum

• Soul Searching (2003),^[31] in two episodes:

  Know Thyself

  The Undiscovered Country

• What We Still Don't Know (2004),^[32] in three episodes:

  Are We Alone?

  Why Are We Here?

  Are We Real?

• Stems Cells: The Promise (2005)^[33]
• Voices In My Head (2006)^[34]
• Dangerous Knowledge (2007)^[35]
• High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos (2008)^[36]
• The Secret Life of Waves (2011)
• Heart vs Mind: What Makes Us Human? (2012)
• Metamorphosis: The Science of Change (2013)

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

Local government elections

References

External links

• David Malone at the Internet Movie Database
• The Debt Generation website
• Golem XIV blog