David Ma is a Chinese-Australian filmmaker based in Sydney.

His short film The Dancing Girl and The Balloon Man was awarded the Best Live Action Short Film Award at the Sydney Film Festival 2023. It went on to win the Best Short Film award at the St Kilda Film Festival 2024, along with an Australian Directors Guild nomination. David’s documentary work has been featured in The New York Times Op-Docs series, and received Walkey and Young Walkley nominations.

He is a co-founder of the film collective Floating Leaf Pictures.