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Lagueria Davis

Lagueria Davis
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Race/Ethnicity
African American
Professions
Director, Line Producer, Producer, Writer
Location
Houston
Languages
English, French
Available for Hire
Travel for Work
Experience Level
Emerging
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Biography

Lagueria Davis⠀graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2007 with a BFA in Media Art. Since graduating, Lagueria has established herself as an award-winning filmmaker. Maid of Dishonor a feature she co-wrote was a 2016 Nicholls Fellowship Quarter-Finalist and was a quarter finalist in the 2015 WeScreenplay Competitions. In addition, in 2013 This is Not a Love Story, a feature script and in 2016 Light in Dark Places a short script placed in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. In 2018, she shot Light in Dark Places, which hit the film festival circuit in 2019, and is now streaming on Amazon Prime. In most recent news, Lagueria was selected as a 2019 BAVC Media Maker Fellow with her current project in development, Black Barbie: A Documentary.  

Currently, Lagueria resides in LA where she’s on the board of the Alliance of Women Directors. 

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Active Projects

Project:_ Black Barbie: A Documentary_
Stage: Development/Fundraising
Logline: The first Black Barbie came out twenty-one years after Barbie’s 1959 release. Through intimate access to Beulah Mae Mitchell, a charismatic Mattel insider, we learn about the struggle for representation in a world where Black women were not meant to have a voice. 

Support Received:
2017 - Top 10-finalist in the ABFF/Lightbox Documentary Feature Initiative
2018

  • Big Sky Documentary Film Fest Pitch Forum
  • Sundance and Women in Film Financing & Strategy Intensive
  • Presentation at STORY conference in Nashville, TN
  • The Awesome Foundation: Awesome Without Borders Grant
    2019
  • BAVC Media Maker Fellowship
  • Top-20 projects selected for the Breaking Through the Lens
  • Program
  • Presentation at MDOCS Story Forum
  • Hot Springs Doc Filmmaker Retreat
  • Logan Nonfiction Fellowship Program
  • Cucalorus & Working Films Works-in-Progress Lab
    Black Barbie: A Documentary is an IDA Fiscally Sponsored Project 

Seeking: Fundraising Producer, Editor, Production Companies

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