Lee Davis is a screenwriter, director and producer based in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
As a storyteller, I invite people to care about the world around them. I implore them to stop and look—because no thing is forever.
My first film job was pulling cable on The Return of Superfly, and later that year worked on Mo Better Blues. Following that, I worked at 40 Acres & A Mule, learning guerilla filmmaking from the auteur, Spike Lee, on films Jungle Fever, Malcolm X and Crooklyn. I also worked on landmark Nike and Levi’s 501 Commercials, and music videos for Naughty by Nature, Prince, Stevie Wonder, and many more. My travels have taken me from Brooklyn to Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris and Cannes.
Past Projects
3 A.M.
Writer & Director
A Showtime Original Feature Film; developed with the assistance of The Sundance Institute
From Bespoke: A Collection of Short Stories for the Solitary Traveler
“As black snow crunched beneath the soles of Adolphus Struggles, a single teardrop crept from the corner of his left eyes, and streaked down his jaw. A cough expelled white exhaust in the cold. He lifted a gloved hand to wipe away the tearstain on his cheek. Adolphus hoped that Bobo, Susie, Jamita, and Lil’ Bit hadn’t seen the tear. Especially Lil’ Bit. In her five years of existence she had never seen her daddy cry. He meant to keep it that way. It was bad enough Tess had seen him last night, as he struggled to steady himself on the sink, razor blade in hand, shaving cream on his face, his reflection in the mirror reduced to a trembling mass. He caught a glimpse of himself weeping uncontrollably, and Tess had seen him through the cracked door. She had seen him in a way that a wife should never see her husband. Adolphus was determined to keep his children from seeing that side of him.”
In Progress
Four Died Trying
A documentary series investigating the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy.
Memoir
An untitled memoir about the past two years of Lee Davis’s life that brought him to where he is today.