- Co-Founder and President of the WFPF (World Freerunning Parkour Federation). Speaks fluent French. Singer/Songwriter.
- Born in Beirut, Lebanon, and besides living in the states, has lived in Morocco, Jordan, and Paris, France.
- Mentors inner city kids while teaching them filmmaking.
- His Documentary "Starfish" won the Los Angeles based, Elevate Films 48 Hour Film Festival for Best Documentary.
- David was born in the same hospital as Keanu Reeves, American University Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon. He found this out when he met Keanu's mother, Patricia Taylor, and she told him.
- David's birth certificate is written in both Arabic and English and he grew up being called Da'ud by half of his family and David by the other half. He still goes by both names.
- David wrote a memoir about his childhood experiences growing up in Morocco entitled "Searching for El-Kabira".
- David Thompson's sister is award winning photographer Amy Thompson-Avishai.
- Goes by the name Da'ud in the music world and his songs including the song "Slave to the Beautiful One" is on i tunes.
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