Brendan Davis(I)

Brendan Davis is a writer-director-producer working internationally in film & TV. Based in Paris, he began his entertainment career in Atlanta in 1990, moved to Los Angeles in 2002, and has split his time between Beijing, Los Angeles, and Paris since 2013.

Davis has been a producer on films premiering, competing, or winning at Sundance HK, Toronto, Berlin, and other festivals ("Metamorphosis", Deadgirl, Born To Dance, Life With Fiona). In 2013 Davis produced the first Los Angeles-based season of Chinese TV hit "Jia Pian You Yue", aka "The Best", featuring Stan Lee, Justin Lin, M. Night Shyamalan, Sean Astin, and others. In 2018 he wrote and directed the documentary "Yibin: An Elemental Journey" for CCTV in China. In 2019 he and director Eric Raine completed a 5-year global journey making feature documentary Crazyhot, about the world of ultra hot chili peppers. Davis is in development on Paris-based feature film My Favorite Season with director Larry Sullivan and his company International Troublemakers. Davis is also actively developing feature film The Bishop's Man, adapted from the best-selling novel by Lynden MacIntyre and to be directed in Nova Scotia by acclaimed filmmaker Babak Payami (752 Is Not A Number, Secret Ballot) and One Shot, which he plans to direct in Paris. In April 2023 he wrote and directed short film "The Unwinding" in London, produced by Roger King. He is also the writer-creator of TV pilot "Chinagirl".