1. Zeinabu irene Davis | UCLA Film & Television Archive
Zeinabu Irene Davis is a director and producer who has received numerous awards for her work with film and video. Born in 1961 in Philadelphia, she received ...
2. Zeinabu irene Davis - Filmmaker - Women Make Movies
Zeinabu Irene Davis is a director and producer who has received numerous awards for her work with film and video. Born in 1961 in Philadelphia, she received a ...
Zeinabu Irene Davis is a director and producer who has received numerous awards for her work with film and video. Born in 1961 in Philadelphia, she received a M.A. in African Studies in 1985 at UCLA, where she also earned her M.F.A. in Film and Television production in 1989. She has received acclaim for her representation of the African American female perspective through a variety of works, which include documentaries, short narratives and experimental films.
3. Zeinabu irene Davis - Black Women Directors
Zeinabu irene Davis is an experimental filmmaker and producer. Her works include the documentary Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA.
Zeinabu irene Davis is an experimental filmmaker and producer. Her works include the documentary Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA , which chronicles the lives and work of Black filmmakers collectively known as the LA Rebellion, Compensation , an experimental feature film about a deaf wo
4. Zeinabu irene Davis - The Movie Database (TMDB)
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Zeinabu irene Davis (born April 13, 1961) is an American filmmaker and professor of the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Her works in film include narrative, documentary and experimental film. Born in Philadelphia, Zeinabu irene Davis, gravitated towards arts, "theater and education" (Field et. al, 19). With a Catholic school background, Davis studied at Brown University, then later travelled to Kenya, which furthered her interest in African American Studies. Furthermore, she pursued her first master's degree in 1983 focusing on African studies, later receiving a master of fine arts in film and video production both from UCLA in 1989. She has received numerous grants and fellowships from such sources as the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught at many renowned colleges such as Antioch College and Northwestern University, but has more recently moved to teach at UC San Diego, where she currently serves as Professor of Communications. As a filmmaker, her films have been categorized as belonging to the genre of Black feminism due to the ways she incorporates the unique experiences of African American women.
5. Zeinabu irene Davis | Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts 2023
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Zeinabu irene Davis is an independent filmmaker and Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She is comfortable working in narrative, experimental, and documentary genres. Her work is passionately concerned with the depiction of women of African descent. A selection of her award-winning works includes a drama about a young slave girl for both children and adults, Mother of the River (1996); a love story set in Afro-Ohio, A Powerful Thang (1991), and an experimental narrative exploring the psycho-spiritual journey of a woman with Cycles (1989). Her dramatic feature film entitled Compensation (1999) features two inter-related love stories that offer a view of Black Deaf culture. The film was selected for the dramatic competition at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and won the Gordon Parks Award for Directing from the Independent Feature Project in 1999. Compensation was introduced by Academy Museum President Jacqueline Stewart and featured in the Black Independent Film showcase on TCM in July 2022. A restoration and release of the film by the Criterion Collection is in the works for 2023.
6. Zeinabu irene Davis | Moviefone
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Zeinabu irene Davis (born April 13, 1961) is an American filmmaker and professor of the Department of Communication at the University of California, San...
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7. Zeinabu Irene Davis | Rotten Tomatoes
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8. Zeinabu irene Davis - Communication
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Official Profile page of Professor Zeinabu irene Davis
9. ZEINABU IRENE DAVIS AND BARBARA MCCULLOUGH WITH ...
Zeinabu irene Davis is an independent filmmaker and Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She is comfortable working in ...
Zeinabu irene Davis and Barbara McCullough share the multi-dimensions of experiences of women filmmakers identified as part of the LA Rebellion. They worked in experimental, narrative and documentary genres and subverted those genres to tell stories of African American life. Strong themes of female identity are present in their individual works underscoring a distinct relationship to the Black female experience. As storytellers, both additionally documented the contribution of those who were unknown – fellow artists and media makers whose contributions to the cultural fabric of Los Angeles and African American culture were under recognized except for the works done by McCullough and Davis. Their conversation will reflect their evolution from film school-the LA Rebellion, academia and the professional world. This conversation will be moderated by Desha Dauchan.
10. Zeinabu irene Davis returns to Ohio to show "A Powerful Thang" - WYSO
1 apr 2022 · They're people who basically are playing themselves in real life, and Yasmeen Allen, the main female character in the film, was played by one of ...
The 1991 film was shot in southwest Ohio. Davis will show the film at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs and at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus.
11. Cycles | Women Make Movies
Cycles. A film by Zeinabu irene Davis. 1989 | 17 minutes | BW | 16mm/DVD ... Drawing on Caribbean folklore, this exuberant experimental drama uses animation and ...
Zeinabu Irene Davis is a director and producer who has received numerous awards for her work with film and video. Born in 1961 in Philadelphia, she received a M.A. in African Studies in 1985 at UCLA, where she also earned her M.F.A. in Film and Television production in 1989. She has received acclaim for her representation of the African American female perspective through a variety of works, which include documentaries, short narratives and experimental films.
