Davon E. Johnson

Undervalued Women in the Workplace (She’s Acting for Change) 3/2023

3rd Place Documentary The 19th Annual MY HERO Int. Film Festival, 2023

Honorable Mention Athens Int. Monthly Art Film Festival, 2024

Ira Ferderick Aldridge is ‘Othello’ , 2022

Official Selection Africa USA International Film Festival, 2023 ATL

Official Selection Sussex International Film Festival, 2023 U.K.

 

The Civil Rights Peaceful Protests in Washington D.C. 1963, 2017

• • Aired on RMPBS Ch.6 Aug,18 2017 & 2018

• BAWM And Heritage Center New Monthly Film Showcase 2018
• Official Selection A Film For Peace-Italy,2018
• ‘Special Screening For the Boulder County Democratic Party 2018

Ujamaa Holiday Market- Short Documentary, 12/2015

• Official Selection Ocktober Film Festival,2016 NYC
• Official Selection BJIFF DOC Sector Film Festival, 2016 Beijing
• Official Selection A Film For Peace Festival, 2016 Italy
•  Official Selection York Film Film Festival,2017 NYC
•  Official Selection Kashmir Jehlum Short & Long Film Festival,2017
•  Official Selection Bueiff Channel Film Festival, 2021 Buenos Aires Argentina
•  Official Selection I Will Tell International Film Festival, 2022 London,UK
•  Official Selection African USA International Film Festival, 2023 ATL
•  African USA International Film Festival, 2024 Honorable Mention L.A.

 

THE MARCH FOR FREEDOM ‘1963’ , 2015

• Film Miami Fest Official Selection and Nomination,2015
• A Film For Peace-Italy,2015 ‘Special Award for the Best Short Film ‘Recommended for School”
• Director Circle Festival of Shorts,2015 Nominated for Best Documentary
• Beijing International Film Festival,2015 Documentary Sector
• Official Selection African World Documentary Film Festival,2016 St.Louis,Mo
• Official Selection African World Documentary Film Festival,2016 The Institute of African studies University of Ghana,Legon
• Official Selection African World Documentary Film Festival,2016 Caribbean Traveling Film School Port of Spain,Trinidad & Tobago
• Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards,2016 Winner Best Shorts Documentary
• Official Selection Cutting Edge Film Festival,2016
• BAWM And Heritage Center New Monthly Film Showcase 2018
• LOVE International Film Festival and Nomination for Best Short Documentary,2018
• Official Selection Long Beach Indie International Film Festival,2018
• Official Selection The Chico Independent Film Festival, 2018
• 1st Place Winner MY HERO International Film Festival 2019
• Honorable Mention Africa USA International Film Festival, 2023 ATL

The March on Washington D.C. 1963, 2013

• The March on Washington D.C. 1963, Short Doc/Music Video 2013 Gothenburg Independent Film Festival,Gothenburg Sweden,2014 Two official Nomination in two Categories…
• Tuzla FilmFestival, 2014 ‘Bosnia and Herzegovina’
• A Film For Peace Film Festival,2014 Italy
• Front Range Film Festival,Longmont,Co 2015
• Catalyst Communities Film Festival,Lincolnshire (UK) 2015
• BAWM And Heritage Center New Monthly Film Showcase 2018
• 3rd Place Winner Music Video MY HERO International Film Festival 2019
• Official Selection Africa USA International Film Festival, 2023 ATL

 

Peace 2 ‘U’ Music Video, 2012

• Emerging Filmmaker Project, 2013
• Norcross,Ga ‘ Honorable Mention’ Urban Media Maker Film Festival, 2013
• 2nd Place winner in the Audience Award Competition UMFF,2013
• BUEIFF CHANNEL, Argentina Official Selection, 2020
• My Hero International Film Festival ‘Honorable Mention, 2020

 

Amazing Grace, Music Video, 2012

• Emerging Filmmaker Project,2013
• Front Range Film Festival,Longmont,Co 2015

 

Skeletal Dreams, Short Film, 2006

• N.Y. International Independent Film and Video Festival, 2006
• Pumelo International Film Festival, Mumbai, India, 2007
• Dereel Film Festival, Australian, 2007 “Best of the Rest”
• Lake Havasu Film Festival, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 2007
• Global Art Film Festival, Hollywood, CA, 2007, 1^st Place winner
• Indie Gathering Film Festival, Cleveland, OH, 2007, 2^nd Place winner
• 5^th Annual Mid-Valley Video Festival, Salem. OR, 2008
• New Zealand Film Festival 2012 Nomination

 

Color Blind, 2002

• The Black Welsh Festival, U.K., 2003
• Global Art Film Festival Experience and Repertory of Sacramento, CA, 2003 – Best Director Golden Bear Award
• Positive, Negatives Film Festival, Sheffield, England, 2003
• Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA. 2003, Nominated Best Director-Feature Film
• Jamerican Film Festival, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2002, Nominated Best  Feature Film
• Colour Blind gain a distribution deal with Maverick Entertainment, 2004

 

Portrait of a Soul, Short Film, 2000

• Pepper View Broadcasting Corporation, Paris, France, 2000
• IFilm Internet Film, 2000
• Starz, Denver Pan African Film Festival, April, 2002
• Global Art Film Festival Experience and Repertory of Sacramento, CA ,2004
• 5th Annual Mid-Valley Video Festival, Salem. OR , 2008
• Won Best Short New Zealand Film Festival 2012
• Catalyst Communities Film Festival Lincolnshire ‘UK”,2015
• Nexgen Mobile Film Festival,2015
• The Emerging Filmmakers Project,2015
• Official Selection Bueiff Channel Film Festival, 2021 Buenos Aires Argentina
• The Corner Seats Int. Film Festival “Honorable Mention” 2024 India

 

Murder. Com, Short Film, 1999

• Global Art Film Festival Experience and Repertory of Sacramento, CA, 2004
• Pepper View Broadcasting Corporation , Paris , France, 2000
• IFilm Internet Film, 2000
• New Zealand film festival 2012 Nomination
• Mass Hysteria Online Film Festival,2014

 

Future Wars, DNA Experiment, March, 1997

• 2^nd Unit Director, Discovery Channel

 

“2-Loves”,Short film,1994

• Doboy Showcase, L.A. , July, 1995

 

Country Music is in My Blood, Short film, 1993

• Aired on KRMA, channel 6, P.B.S., September, 1994
• Pepper View Broadcasting Corporation, Paris, France, 2000
• New Zealand film festival 2012 Nomination

 

Project “75” The Mile High Medical Society Feature, Documentary 1992

• Denver International Film Festival, October, 1992
•  Mondial de la Video 14^th Festival International du Film Super and Video, Brussels, 1992
• Gold Medal from Freddy Thielemans Echevin des Beaux Arts et de la Culture.
• Intermountain Jewish News Feature Davon in there news paper about his Medical Documentary.
• Colorado Committee Feature Film Screening, 9/30/17 Blair Caldwell African American Research Library
• BAWM And Heritage Center New Monthly Film Showcase 2018

 

Have a Hue-Man Experience: An African American Bookstore and More, 1990

• Aired on P.B.S. on Channel 12, December, 1990
• The International Black Independent Film, Video and Screenplay Competition. Documentary, 2^nd Place Winning February, 1992
•  Mondial de la Video 14^th Festival International du Film Super and Video, Brussels, 1992
• Gold Medal from Freddy Thielemans Echdevin des Beaux Arts et de la Culture.
• BAWM And Heritage Center New Monthly Film Showcase. 2017

Historian Paul Stewart. A Tribute to the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center. 1989

• Broadcast two times on P.B.S. channel 12, June 1990.  The 5^th Australian International Video Festival, 1990
• PCTV’s International Black History Month Film and Video Festival, 1991
• Mondial de la Video, 14^th Festival International du Film Super and Video, Brussels, 1992
• Gold Medal from Freddy Thielemans Echevin des Beaux Arts et de la Culture. NBPC ask for rights for distribution on November, 1993
• The Library of Congress added this Film to the public viewing section.
• BAWM And Heritage Center New Monthly Film Showcase.2017

Davon started in 1993, and is the Founder of two Films Festivals that are given in the month of February and September.  The big Film Festival that take place in September has been in Adam Langer book  “The Film Festival Guide”. Davon has a feature interview in the book.  This Festival has been visit by International Film Star from the U.K., Leon Herbert of Alien 3 and Scandal and International Film Director Rafael R. Corona from Mexico City. Eric LaSalle and Blair Underwood also has had their shorts films screen at my festival. In 1991, He was on the Development Committee for The Denver World Black Film Festival.

He was the first African-American from Colorado to have a film screen at the Denver International Film Festival in 1992

Hiroshima International Amateur Film and Video Festival. He have received two silver medals for his works.

Dallas Art & Film Festival On July 30,2011 Presented to Davon In Recognition of your Outstanding Dedication,Filmworks & Inspiration to Filmmakers Globally.

Davon had 4 shorts films get Nominations from the New Zealand 2012 Film festival,and won Best short for his film ‘Portrait of a Soul’ at the New Zealand 2012 film festival.

Extra work, Prison for Children, Perry Mason, Father Dowling,  Dyan Cannon, One Point of View, and E.R., “Baby Shower”.  He has been featured on a popular website in the U.K. as guests of the month “Every Generation”.