Kate Davis

Director

"Locked Out"

Kate Davis was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Prize at Doc NYC for her film, Traffic Stop. Her documentary Southern Comfort won dozens of awards including the The Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, First Prize at Hot Docs and The Seattle Film Festival, The Grierson Award for Best Documentary and the Berlin Film Festival Special Jury Award.

Davis co-directed The Cheshire Murders for HBO and The Newburgh Sting (Peabody Award and Founder’s Prize at Traverse City Film Festival and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy). She won an Emmy for Best Documentary with Jockey and a Peabody Award for Stonewall Uprising.

Davis also directed Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, the HBO documentary which won the NAACP Award for Best Documentary. Recently, she co-directed the award-winning film R.I.P. T-Shirts for Paramount Plus.

Participating Sessions

Opening Night Film: Locked Out

Nothing symbolizes ‘making it in America’ quite like owning a home. Yet today, the racial gap in home ownership is widening, and those most impacted are women of color. Set in Detroit, “Locked out” takes us into the lives of courageous Black women who face evictions, predatory lenders and traditional banking, in a movement to battle housing injustice, so The American Dream may become a reality for all. Audience talkback...