A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Germany
Ava Davis, Sundance Fellow and also known as the Duchess of Grant Park, is a trans actress, producer/filmmaker, and writer living in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also an advocate for increasing trans and queer representation, especially that of black and other minorities. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia You can find her in the horror anthology feature film, Give Me An A, available on streaming services, and the short films Could This Have Been An Email and Torn Together, both of which are currently finishing their rounds at festivals across the country. She is currently working to produce and secure $750K-$1MM in financing for her first feature film, The Waltz, about a single young trans woman who teams up with a reluctant dance partner to pursue her dream of learning the waltz, only for the two to slowly fall for each other while fighting insecurities and social pressures. Visit www.thewaltzfilm.com to learn more!
Director:
2024 Queer Dystopian Short
Executive Producer:
2021 The Duchess of Grant Park
2024 Queer Dystopian Short
Writer:
2021 The Duchess of Grant Park
2023 Torn Together
2024 Queer Dystopian Short
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.