Hannah Davis is the daughter of actress Jean Boht and film composer Carl Davis.
Background
Hannah Davis was born in London, England and brought up with the great masters of the Silent Cinema. She spent her early years watching the works of King Vidor, Abel Gance, Charlie Chaplin and Eric Von Stroheim in concert halls across the world and watching her mother on a variety of film sets.
Career
She is a writer, director, and actress, having made two feature-length films under her production company, Mansion Pictures called and This led to further work in Television and Theatre. Between acting jobs, Hannah met David Conolly while running Lunacy (an alternative comedy night on the London fringe). They worked their way up the production ladder, producing the pilot of Lunacy, which in turn led to work in British Broadcasting Corporation Drama and Documentary.
They then began creating festival-nominated shorts and community films for the Red Cross, the Teenage Cancer Unit Trust and the National Schizophrenic Foundation.
They also developed their writing skills with screenplays for Hartswood Films, Quentin Morrissey, Buffalo Pictures as well as working on Shakespearean productions at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London. lieutenant was decided to combine their many skills and create a feature film, entitled Six months were spent with actors devising and rehearsing the screenplay, followed by sporadic bursts of filming with breaks so that cast and crew could earn money to live on during production and so that Hannah and David could earn money to finance the next phase of filming.
Finally, producer and writer, Lynda Louisiana Plante (of Prime Suspect fame) saw a rough-cut of and became part of their post-production team was selected as one of the top six British Films of the year. The success of led to interest in their next project and the screenplay, Wedding Town was developed for the United Kingdom Film Council.
Shortly after Wedding Town, principal photography began in New York City on their second full-length feature,, which was completed in 2008. is currently playing at film festivals around the world and is to be released later in the year.
David and Hannah also write scripts for Hannah’s father, composer Carl Davis, whom they often collaborate with, these have been performed in front of a live orchestra all over the world, from the Royal Albert Hall in London to Carnegie Hall in New New York
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