Mitch Davis

Mitch Davis has been a Director of International Programming at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal since 1997, and Co-Festival-Director since 2003. As a filmmaker, Davis directed the shorts DIVIDED INTO ZERO (1999 - winner, Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the Chicago Underground Film Festival) and GOD’S LITTLE GIRL (2006). He produced Karim Hussain’s transgressive feature debut SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY (2000) as well as Rick Trembles’ GOOPY SPASMS (2004) and was an associate Producer on the anthology feature ABC’S OF DEATH 2 (2014). Among his other endeavors, Davis has written for a multitude of cinema and culture publications including Fangoria, Rue Morgue Magazine, Eyeball and the Harvard film journal Post Script and has written chapters for a number of FAB Press publications, including ART OF DARKNESS: THE CINEMA OF DARIO ARGENTO and TEN YEARS OF TERROR: BRITISH HORROR FILMS OF THE 1970’s. From 1999-2006, he was a programmer at Montreal rep theatre Cinema Du Parc.

Mitch Davis has been a Director of International Programming at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal since 1997, and Co-Festival-Director since 2003. As a filmmaker, Davis directed the shorts DIVIDED INTO ZERO (1999 - winner, Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the Chicago Underground Film Festival) and GOD’S LITTLE GIRL (2006). He produced Karim Hussain’s transgressive feature debut SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY (2000) as well as Rick Trembles’ GOOPY SPASMS (2004) and was an associate producer on the anthology feature ABC’S OF DEATH 2 (2014). Most recently, he is an associate producer on Pablo Absento’s BLOAT (2022), produced by Timur Bekmambetov. Among his other endeavors, Davis has written for a multitude of cinema and culture publications including Fangoria, Rue Morgue Magazine, Eyeball and the Harvard film journal Post Script and has written chapters for a number of FAB Press publications, including ART OF DARKNESS: THE CINEMA OF DARIO ARGENTO and TEN YEARS OF TERROR: BRITISH HORROR FILMS OF THE 1970’s. From 1999-2006, he was a programmer at Montreal rep theatre Cinema Du Parc.