Bridgett Davis
Bridgett M. Davis is a woman of many talents. She is currently an associate English professor at New York’s Baruch College. Her area of teaching pertains to creative writing and literature. She dabbled in film, both directing and penning the screenplay for the award winning and critically acclaimed film Naked Acts in 1996. Prior to her teaching and film, she was a news journalist for the Philadelphia Inquirer as well for the Chicago Tribune, New York Newsday, Columbia Journalism Review, Wall Street Journal and the Detroit Free Press. She is also an established author, with her recent book Shifting Through Neutral, which Booklist Magazine calls, “A riveting family drama filled with sharply drawn individuals who love and fail each other with stunning intensity.� She has also written In The Tradition, a compilation of pieces from young African-American writers.
Her only film has been Naked Acts, released in 1996. She was both director and screenwriter for this film.
Although I have not been able to view her film Naked Acts, I was able to read excerpts of her writing online. I was also not able to locate a clip of her film on YouTube, sadly.
I found Bridgett Davis through the Sisters in Cinema link on our course blog. Her film Naked Acts was released in 1996, so it is obviously out of theatres. According to IMDB it is available on DVD, which I was able to locate on Amazon on both DVD and VHS.
It was not very difficult to locate information about Bridgett Davis. There were many biographies available about her on different college university as well as publishing houses websites. Her literature is readily available in bookstores, and her film is readily available online; information for both was easy to find.