Elizabeth Frances Davis is a writer-director who grew up in Hermosa Beach, California (okay, so not L.A. to some…). She graduated from Northwestern University’s Radio/Television/Film program, and won two student film grants for projects she wrote and directed there. The first was a family realist short tackling sexual assault called To My Younger Sister. The second was a dark dramedy about Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein, co-written with and starring Maria Ginther, called Vindication.

After Northwestern, she moved to the United Kingdom for her Masters in Film Aesthetics from University of Oxford. There she was a student at Lady Margaret Hall, and she focused authorship in film remakes, exploring the work of Alfred Hitchcock, Yasujiro Ozu, and Michael Haneke. She also explored dance scenes in films, and phenomenology in lighting through the theories of Sartre and Husserl.

Now, she’s based in London working on a number of projects including screenplays, plays, and short films.