women of color
Demane Davis
1. She is the one on the right in the picture. She was born in Roxbury and I was unable to find her age anywhere. She started copywriting first and then started to direcct comercials just to pay the bills and learn more about the medium. She later became a screenwriter and a director.
2. She made her first film "Black, White & Red All Over" in 1997 in which she directed and wrote with Harry McCoy. This film went to the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for awards but unfortanatly did not win anything. She then co-wrote and co-directed "Lift" with Khari Streeter in 2001. Which is about a female car booster with a troubled family and also deals with the issues of shoplifting. This was also shown at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the NHK Award. It was also shown at the Uraban World Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize.
3. I was unfortanatly unable to find any of her work in clips.
4. I found the most information about her on the link to Sisters of Cinema and another website www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/01january/lift.htm
I posted the link to this site above if anyone would like to read it. It is an interview with Demain about her film "Lift."
As of where to view her work the only place that I found that it was available was to buy it online. Other than that it has just been shown at different film festivals.
5. I found it extreamly difficult to find her anywhere. It took me almost an hour to find any info that seemed crediable. I am still a little unsure on the information I did find. It was also hard to find a great deal of information on her movies. I was unable to find a clip of either one and was only able to find a way to buy it through a site on google and on the Sisters Of Cinema website. I would think that anyone who won awards at the Sundance Film Festival would be a whole lot easier to track down. The whole process I would say took me about two hours just to get all the information right. She is deffinetly tough to learn about.