David Hoffman is a documentary filmmaker. Hoffman has made five feature-length documentaries including King, Murray, an experimental film about a Long Island salesman who goes to Las Vegas on a junket to gamble with other high rollers. King, Murray was the winner of the Critics Award at The Cannes Film Festival. Other feature films include: Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends, starring Scruggs with Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, and The Byrds; Sing Sing Thanksgiving, a concert feature film at Sing Sing Prison in New York with B.B. King, Joan Baez and others; and It’s All Good, a film chronicling the lives of two aggressive inline skating teams in New York City and Los Angeles.

Hoffman spent much of his career producing films in Camden, Maine. Today he lives and works in Santa Cruz, California. He lost almost everything he owned, including his house and long prized possessions, in a fire in 2008.