David H. Tanaka is an Editor, Producer and Creative Director with experience ranging from visual effects and animation, to documentary and live action feature filmmaking. For 15 years he served at Industrial Light & Magic in VFX Production and VFX Editorial on films including “Jurassic Park”, “Forrest Gump” and the “Star Wars” saga. He then went on to Pixar Animation Studios as a Special Projects Editor for 10 years, contributing to such productions as “Cars,” “Ratatouille,” ” WALL•E,” “Up,” “Toy Story 3,” “Brave” and “Monsters University.”

Tanaka recently completed serving as a VFX Editor for Tippett Studio in Berkeley, California, working on streaming shows “Locke & Key,” “The Orville: New Horizons,” “The Resort,” “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” and Disney/Marvel’s “Secret Invasion.”

He actively serves as 2nd Vice Chair on the Executive Committee of The Visual Effects Society – a professional honorary society promoting visual effects and empowering over 5000 VFX practitioners worldwide with professional education and entertainment industry recognition. He along with his wife, Dorianne, also created Cinembailities® in 2020 – a filmmaking program for typically and atypically developing students and young adults, ages 10 to 22.