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Brendan Davis(I)

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  • Director
  • Writer
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Paris - January 2023
Brendan Davis began his entertainment career in Atlanta in 1990, moved to Los Angeles in 2002, and has split his time between Beijing and Los Angeles since 2013.

Davis has been a producer on films premiering, competing, or winning at Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, and other festivals. In 2013 Davis produced the first Los Angeles-based season of Chinese TV hit "Jia Pian You Yue" for CCTV-6, featuring Stan Lee, Justin Lin, M. Night Shyamalan, Sean Astin, and others. He is a former Producing faculty member at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, served a year as Chairman of Adamas Film International in Beijing, and has guest lectured at the Beijing Film Academy. In 2018 he wrote and directed the documentary "Yibin: An Elemental Journey" for CCTV. In 2019 he and director Eric Raine completed a 5-year journey making feature documentary CrazyHot. Davis is in pre-production on Paris-based feature film My Favorite Season and producing a documentary on US-China relations with writer-director Larry Sullivan, cinematographer Naeem Seirafi, and partners.

In addition to his film efforts, Davis co-created the "How China Works" podcast with Yingying Li. Davis' 2019 public engagements included live "How China Works" events with Yingying Li in Beijing as well as at Stanford University, the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and at Onepiece Work in downtown San Francisco. He moderated a panel at the 2019 Horasis China Meeting in Las Vegas on "The Future of China's Belt & Road Initiative" and was set to moderate a panel at the Horasis Global Meeting in Cascais, Portugal in 2020 on the topic of "Fulfillment" that was canceled due to Covid-19. Before leaving China, he was a live-stream guest on "China Plus America"'s web TV show as the subject of a 90-minute feature interview and was a guest host on China Radio International's top program "Round Table". On June 22, 2020, Davis moderated a live panel discussion at the virtual Horasis India Meeting on the topic of "India's March Into Modernism", with leading experts from India's politics, economics, tech, women's rights, and public health sectors. On July 26, 2020 he returned to "China Plus America", this time remotely from Los Angeles. On October 1, 2020, Davis moderated a panel at the inaugural Horasis Extraordinary Meeting on the topic of "Populism versus Multilateralism", and on March 18 he joined a panel making the case for a UBI in the US at the 2021 Horasis Extraordinary Meeting.
BornJanuary 5, 1968
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Naeem Seirafi and Brendan Davis - "The Unwinding", London, 2023
Brendan Davis - "The Unwinding", London, 2023
Roger King and Brendan Davis - "The Unwinding", London, 2023
Brendan Davis - Sept 25, 2020, Los Angeles - photo by Naeem Seirafi
Crew of "The Best" US (2014), aka "Jia Pian You Yue"
June 22, 2020 - Los Angeles
Receiving the Distinguished Special Foreign Expert award from the Beijing Global Talent Exchange Association; Beijing, China - Dec 2019
Brendan Davis | Auckland, New Zealand, January 1, 2017
Beijing, China, 2016
Kun Wang, M. Night Shyamalan, Brendan Davis, and Heshi Wang on set of "The Best" US (2014).
Working dinner in Rome, Italy
Fall 2012

Known for:

Born to Dance (2015)
Born to Dance
5.3
  • Producer
  • 2015
CrazyHot
CrazyHot
  • Producer
    My Favorite Season
    My Favorite Season
    • Producer

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      Producer

      • The Unwinding
        • producer
        • Short
        • 2023
      • My Favorite Season
        • executive producer, producer
        • Pre-production
      • Untitled US-China Documentary
        • executive producer, producer
        • In Production
      • CrazyHot
        • producer
        • Completed
      • Eat Me
        • producer
        • Completed
        • Short
      • My Favorite Season (2019)
        My Favorite Season
        • producer
        • Short
        • 2019
      • Shevenge (2019)
        Shevenge
        • co-producer (segment Metamorphosis)
        • 2019
      • Sam (2017)
        Sam
        • producer
        • 2017
      • Cici Lau, John Honoré, Elaine Xia, Wilky Lau, Jiin Jang, Monica Cho, Karl Chan, Feiyang Sun, and Yang LV in Metamorphosis (2016)
        Metamorphosis
        • co-producer
        • Short
        • 2016
      • Born to Dance (2015)
        Born to Dance
        • associate producer
        • 2015
      • Tom Sizemore, George C. Romero, Ian Hutton, and B.J. Hendricks in Auteur (2014)
        Auteur
        • associate producer
        • 2014
      • Rough Hustle (2014)
        Rough Hustle
        • executive producer
        • 2014
      • The Best
        • producer: US
        • TV Series
        • 2013
      • Deadgirl (2008)
        Deadgirl
        • co-producer
        • 2008
      • Avery Clyde and Greg Lobb in Life with Fiona (2007)
        Life with Fiona
        • producer
        • 2007
      • Age Inappropriate (2005)
        Age Inappropriate
        • producer
        • Short
        • 2005

      Director

      • The Unwinding
        • Director
        • Short
        • 2023
      • Age Inappropriate (2005)
        Age Inappropriate
        • Director
        • Short
        • 2005

      Writer

      • The Unwinding
        • Writer
        • Short
        • 2023
      • CrazyHot
        • screenplay by, story by
        • Completed

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      • Official site
        • Official Site
      • Alternative names
        • Brendan K. Davis
      • Born
        • January 5, 1968
        • Augusta, Georgia, USA

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      • Gender / Gender identity
        • Male

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        A guitarist and songwriter since age 8, Brendan appeared on "Star Search" in 1995 (the same season as actor-comedian Kevin James) with his now-defunct hard rock band, Minority Rules.

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