David L. Cunningham is an international filmmaker who has directed and produced a number of motion picture and television projects in 40 countries worldwide. He is the founder and President of the Los Angeles-based production company Pray For Rain Pictures, Inc.. Born in Switzerland and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii, Mr. Cunningham has traveled to 133 countries on every continent, earning him a membership in the prestigious Traveler's Century Club, whose members have been to more than 100 nations. Cunningham has lectured at UCLA Extension, AFI Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Avid Technologies, and University of the Nations (Hawaii, South Africa, Switzerland and New Zealand campuses).
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His father, Loren Cunningham, was a founder of conservative Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the unaccredited University of the Nations, both institutions with a Christian evangelical focus.
David Cunningham's University of the Nations Leadership Training School project "centered on his call to be a missionary to Hollywood. It was a plan to create an independent film company whereby he could both influence the Hollywood film industry and produce major motion pictures which would carry a biblical values based message."
He started "The Film Institute" associated with the YWAM organization so members can get into positions "within the film industry, not to give them jobs, but so that they can begin to impact and transform Hollywood from the inside out." The YWAM describes itself as "an international movement of Christians" performing "evangelism, training and mercy ministry" in 149 countries.