Genevieve Davis, M.F.A.

  

          Producer/Director/Screenwriter, Genevieve Davis is an award-winning filmmaker. She produced, directed, wrote, designed and edited, Secret Life, Secret Death, the discovery of the story of a young mother who fell into crime with the Mob in the Prohibition Era. Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune called it, “Visually stunning . . . a haunting story.” The Gene Siskel Film Center called it, “Technically innovative and dazzling.”

          The docudrama was entirely funded by donations, and brought in more than double it's original budget. Secret Life, Secret Death won Best Art Film and Best Costume at film festivals. We played the film in theaters and film festivals in Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Mobile, London, Bari Italy and Rome. Davis went on a library tour with the film, of over 50 libraries. At the Q & A afterwards, people even shared their family stories of Al Capone and the Mob.

          Now the award-winning filmmaker is producing, directing, writing and designing a new feature film, called, Dogged. “Don't fall for a dangerous man.” It's a thriller, with a comic twist. Wouldn't you know it, that a movie shot in Milwaukee would be funny and tense at the same time! Somnam, from Finland, provides the eerie synthesizer music that made the hairs stand up on the back of the director's neck when she first heard it!   The film has a strong anti-animal cruelty message.

Davis said, “I feel passionate about this film, because I wrote four awesome, complex leads for women, complete with strengths and foibles, whose journey fascinates." I wrote Gellis the rebellious artist, Cat who owns the B & B, Cat's sister Melanie who helps with a sting operation, and Ramona, a Native American cop investigating dog fighting. These are not girlfriend, mom and wife roles. Their value is NOT “determined in relation to the people they bed, marry or birth,” to quote Variety in 2015. In the words of Viola Davis, they are “strong, vulnerable, joyful, and… messy.” Glamor Magazine wrote in 2017, “People crave stories about women, and these stories can deliver at the box office!” Women directors are, “the future of film,” according to the Tribecca Film Festival. Director Genevieve Davis said, "Wouldn't it be great to see real women up on the screen for a change?"

 Italy and Rome. Davis went on a library tour with the film, of over 50 libraries. At the Q & A afterwards, people even shared their family stories of Al Capone and the Mob.