| Kiri Davis Biography |
| Written by Terrie Williams | |
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KIRI DAVISFilmmaker, Actress, Entrepreneur
Since 2005 the film received numerous awards including the Urban League Guild: "Vanguard Award," Hampton Film
Festival "Golden Starfish Award," and The
Media That Matters "Diversity Award." "A Girl Like Me" has also been featured
in over twenty film festivals including the Tribeca
Film Festival and has screened worldwide.
Kiri Davis, now eighteen
has recently been named by Ebony Magazine
as one of "The Ebony Power 150 Most Influential
Blacks In America," is being presented with the "Racial Justice Award" by the National YMCA in April 2007, and has
been chosen to receive the 100 Black Men
of America's "Outstanding Youth Award
for Broadcast Media" in June. She
frequently lectures and participates in numerous panel discussions to further
explore the issues raised in her film. She has been featured in a host of
magazine articles including Jet, Ebony, and N.A.A.C.P'S Crisis Magazine. Kiri has been featured in numerous news
articles throughout the U.S as well as internationally. Recently Kiri was
featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The
Today Show/Headline News, Good
Morning America, ABC World News,
and Sharp Talk with Al Sharpton.
Additionally Kiri has been a participant on various national radio shows, which
include: the Steve Harvey Morning Show
and National Public Radio's "Talk Of The
Nation". |
Kiri Davis knew from an early
age that film was a medium she wanted to work in. Through her films she's found
a way of expressing herself as well as telling the stories that are important
to her. Kiri Davis began her career as an entrepreneur creating and selling
specialty items and later designing her own jewelry line. She now continues to
express her love of art through a variety of mediums including film. She has
directed several short films including her first documentary "A Girl Like Me" which she made at age
sixteen.