Education
Davis studied at Brown University and received a master of fine arts in film and video production from University of California, Los Angeles in 1989.
Davis studied at Brown University and received a master of fine arts in film and video production from University of California, Los Angeles in 1989.
She has received numerous grants and fellowships from such sources as the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts. She taught at several colleges.
As a filmmaker, her films have been categorized as belonging to the genre of Black feminism.