Dave Harding
Producer, Executive In Charge Of Production, M17
Dave Harding is an award winning, story driven film and television producer and production executive associated with the Academy Award nominated “Encounters At The End of the World” as well as his work on the feature documentaries “The Grizzly Man,” “The U.S. vs John Lennon,” “Leonard Cohen-I’m Your Man,” “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” “Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary.” “This is Bob Hope” for PBS’ American Masters, A Gray State” for A&E Films, also on Netflix, “This Is Bob Hope…” for American Masters, “The Cold Blue” for HBO , “The Happy Days of Garry Marshall” for ABC, “Sergio Mendes In The Key of Joy”, and “Herb Alpert Is…” and the upcoming “What The Hell Happened to Blood Sweat & Tears?”
Dave has been working with Spencer for the past five years producing major documentaries such as the Denzel Washington narrated John Coltrane doc, Chasing Trane (https://vimeopro.com/meteor17productions/chasing-trane-trailer) and the highly acclaimed Paramount+ release of The Day The Music Died (https://deadline.com/2022/06/the-day-the-music-died-documentary-gets-paramount-plus-premiere-date-trailer-1235049477/).
Most recently, Dave was integrally involved and served as Spencer’s top lieutenant producer on the highly acclaimed cinematic documentary: Reinventing Elvis - which streamed to great success on Viacom’s Paramount+ platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho36tS3EKLU
The film, in addition to receiving 100 on Rotten Tomatoes, both Dave, Spencer as well as the rest of the M17 are beaming with the two gold Telly Awards that the project has received in addition to over 516 stellar reviews. (https://nypost.com/2023/08/15/reinventing-elvis-how-the-king-nearly-lost-his-crown/
Honored with two Emmy nominations for his work in television, and one Emmy win for “Wage Slaves -Not Getting By in America,” Harding has produced or supervised more than 1000 hours of documentary and non-fiction programs for television while serving as the Exec VP (and Executive Producer) of television indie powerhouse Creative Differences.
Harding received a B.S. in Radio/TV/Fim and a “minor” in Economics, from Northwestern University and returned for an M.S.J. from the University’s esteemed Medill School of Journalism.