DAVID MALKIN

This is where it began. Or started again. Or something like that. I had just finished Graduate School. My Cinematography Professor referred me to this man, David Malkin. What a character.

David was living in Hilton Head. I was in Savannah. And he came to our office and told us he had a project. He was turning 80, and would we put together a documentary about his family for his 80th Birthday. A few notes: his family tiled the Smithsonian, and the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, NYC. There was a note he’d received from 10 Downing Street, a key to the city of Stoke On Trent, west coast adventures with J.B. Molson, the founding of the Edge Canning Company at the start of Canadian grocery industry, and family home movies shot on film from 1918 of ice skating in Moscow. But most of all, there was love. Love for his family, and the continued history of the generations. There’s children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews and cousins and aunts and uncles and all the things that make life worth living. David knew how to live.

Truly grateful for this man, and the time we spent working together on his family celebration. Thank You.