David Hal Chester is an American screenwriter and prize-winning short filmmaker based in Tokyo. His genre is female-driven dramas with sharp humor. 

To date, he has written six commissioned features, four produced, two currently on Amazon Prime, one on Lifetime TV. His original screenplays have all been screenwriting competition finalists, and his short film “The Lesson” won the Tokyo Rainbow Reel “Grand Prix” and the Torino GLBT Film Festival “Best Short Film.”

David’s writing has benefitted greatly from Roadmap Writers’ Top Tier group, Corey Mandell screenwriting workshops and mentoring by writer/producer Ellen Sandler (“Everybody Loves Raymond”).

When David isn’t obsessing over the seven volumes of “Mad Men” scripts, you can find him hunched over his desk writing a screenplay or teleplay (or, more likely, rewriting them).