David Lowery

David Lowery is an American filmmaker. His first feature, St. Nick, premiered at South by Southwest in 2009. In 2011 he founded the production company Sailor Bear and wrote and directed the short Pioneer, which played at the Sundance Film Festival. He wrote, directed and edited Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013), starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, which was nominated for Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and selected for Cannes Critics' Week. He went on to direct Disney's Pete's Dragon (2016), A Ghost Story (2017), The Old Man & the Gun (2018), The Green Knight (2021) and the musical psychological drama Mother Mary (2026).