Born in Montana in 1946, David Lynch spent his childhood drawing and painting. In 1965, he left to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he discovered a passion for moving images and made his first experimental short film. Throughout his life, David Lynch has never stopped painting, drawing, photographing and making animation films. He has even broadened the field of his artistic explorations to include musical composition and sonic art. He is internationally known for his iconic films Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2001), and is unanimously acclaimed by critics for his cult series Twin Peaks (1990-1991) and Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). One of the world's most talented directors, David Lynch received in 2006 a Golden Lion for his entire career at the Venice Film Festival.