Biography
David Linde (born February 8, 1960) is the CEO of the Los Angeles, California-based film production company Participant, a position to which he was appointed in October 2015. Prior to his role at Participant, Linde had leading roles at Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Good Machine, and Lava Bear Films, where films released during his tenures collectively earned more than $14 billion globally, with 158 Oscar nominations and 34 wins.
Known For
Complete Filmography

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
2025
Executive Producer
Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, draw...

In Waves and War
2024
Executive Producer
Three Navy SEALs leave their tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with treatment-resistant, unrelenting psychological pain. They find themselves at t...

I'm Your Venus
2024
Executive Producer
The two very different families of "Paris Is Burning" star Venus Xtravaganza unite to honor her and reopen her unsolved murder case.

The Walk
2023
Executive Producer
Asil is a young Syrian refugee awaiting documents in Turkey while processing the trauma of losing her home and family. Her story gives voice to a char...

Stillwater
2021
Executive Producer
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder ...

David Byrne's American Utopia
2020
Executive Producer
A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global com...

Roma
2018
Executive Producer
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
2017
as Self
A look at the source story, core human themes, the challenges and process of bringing the story to the screen, casting, creating realistic characters ...

Shut In
2016
Executive Producer
A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue ...

Arrival
2016
Producer
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are ...

The Bodyguard
2016
Executive Producer
A retired bodyguard who has settled into a corner of the world where China, Russia and North Korea meet as he suffers from early dementia finds a new ...

The Forest
2016
Producer
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in se...

Desierto
2015
Executive Producer
A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight fo...

Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'
2014
as Self
Behind the scenes look at David Michôd's 2014 film 'The Rover'.

The Rover
2014
Producer
Ten years after a severe economic collapse in the western world, lawlessness reigns and life is cheap. Eric is a lone drifter, and his car is his only...

Coming Home
2014
Executive Producer
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolutio...

360
2012
Producer
A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous w...

Biutiful
2010
Executive Producer
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and fa...

Rudo & Cursi
2008
Producer
Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fa...

They
2002
Executive Producer
A psychology student who experienced night terrors as a child must face the chilling realization that her nightmares were not all in her head.

Storytelling
2001
Executive Producer
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

Y Tu Mamá También
2001
Executive Producer
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
Executive Producer
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at...

The King Is Alive
2000
Executive Producer
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by th...

Ride with the Devil
1999
Executive Producer
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us...

Happiness
1998
Executive Producer
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might fin...

Wonderland
1997
Executive Producer
Welcome to Levittown, New York - America's first cookie-cutter community. From wife-swapping to bomb shelters, to flag burning, Wonderland takes a hil...
Belly Talkers
1996
Executive Producer
Speaking without moving your lips is an ancient art, practiced very seriously already in ancient Egypt. Today's ventriloquists are mostly found in the...

Guys and Dolls: Off the Record
1992
Executive Producer
A behind-the-scenes look at the cast-album recording session of the 1992 Tony-winning Broadway revival of the Frank Loesser musical. Originally broad...
All American Girls
N/A
Executive Producer
Directed by Conduit Films' founder Christy Wegener, All American Girls features a sit-down with Pleasant Rowland, as well as never-before-seen footage...