DeMane Davis

BIO

For more than two decades, DeMane Davis has created national and international advertising campaigns, written and directed commercials and independent feature films and, recently directed two episodes of Queen Sugar, Ava DuVernay’s TV series on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN.) DeMane is also a freelance copywriter, nominating committee member of the NAACP Image Awards, Sundance Fellow and a commercial director at Sweet Rickey, a female-helmed production company.

Contributed Content

ARTICLE

Business as Usual Does Not Yield the Unusual

3% touched base with director and writer DeMane Davis on directing Queen Sugar, diversity in advertising, social change, being woke—and how there's no going back to sleep.