BIOGRAPHY OF

DAVON E. JOHNSON

 

Davon E. Johnson is 42 years old director, producer, writer, film festival director and actor who lives in Denver, Colorado.

 

He has directed numerous films and has two feature films under his belt.  He is currently working on his fifth narrative short film and his first music video.

 

Davon started his production company, Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production, in 1989 and also directed his first film that year.  Three of his films have aired on P.B.S. television.  He has won numerous awards in film festivals in the United States, Europe and Asia.

 

Davon is the producer of two film festivals that he held in Denver each year.  Adam Langer, who is the author of a major book about film festivals, The Film Festival Guide, features the big one that is the Denver International World Cinema Independent Fall Film Festival which Davon holds in the month of September.

 

Davon has very high hopes for this four new films, Colour Blind, Murder.com,  Portrait of a Soul and Skeletal Dreams. Davon gain a distribution deal for his feature film “Colour Blind”. He has started directing TV commercials for designer Ken Smoots for the fashion house of Urban Jungle Fashions and for Worldwide Mortgage. He hopes his latest  films will create opportunities for him.

 

                                  

 

PROGRAM	TELEVISION PRODUCTION  EXPERIENCE	PRODUCTION  CO
Teletunes R&B Showcase	Floor Director, Associate Producer Video Programmer (12/86-12/88)	KBDI Channel 12 Denver PBS Affiliate
Legend of the American West	Production Assistant                            6/91	D. Train Entertainment in Association with Cabin Fever Entertainment Inc.
A Child’s Cry for Help	Stand-ins Production Assistant 6/28/94-7/8/94	Longbow Productions NBC
Stay in School	Stand-ins Production Assistant 10/26/94	NBC Entertainment
Dotsero Jazz Music Video	Camera Assistant Production Assistant  (4/2/97)	Jazz Alley TV
FILM TITLE	DOCUMENTARY NARRATIVE DIRECTING EXPERIENCE	PRODUCTION CO.
Historian Paul Stewart: A Tribute to the Black American West Museum And Heritage Center	Writer, Director, Producer Aired on KBDI Channel 12 PBS 6/16/90	Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production
Have a Hue-Man Experience: An African-American Bookstore and More	Writer, Director,Producer Aired on KBDI Channel 12 PBS 12/30/90	Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production
Project 75 The Mile High Medical Society Featured Documentary	World Premier Writer, Director, Producer Denver International Film Festival 10/21/92	Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production
Country Music is in My Blood	Writer, Director, Producer Aired on KRMA Channel 6 PBS 9/3/94	Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production
2-Loves	Writer, Director, Producer 4/94	Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production
Future Wars DNA Experiment	Director 3/20/97	Fitzsimmons Medical Center Health and Preventive Medicine
Murder.com	Director, Producer 10/99	Bittercreek Communication association with Davon E. Johnson Filmworks  Production
Portrait of a Soul	Writer, Director, Producer 3/00	Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production
Urban Jungle Fashions T.V. Commercial	Director, Producer 4/8/00	Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production
Colour Blind Feature Film	Director, Producer 7/01	A Yasnay Productions & Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production
World Wide Mortgage T.V. Commercial	Director, Producer 2/28/04	Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production
Skeletal Dreams Short Film	Director, Producer 3/10/06	DrakeFilms in Association With Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production

Davon E. Johnson Filmworks Production

       “Bless the independent filmmaker.”

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