Hunter Davis

President/Owner at Speck Productions, Day Job Entertainment
Screenwriter, Producer, Director and Location Manager

Los Angeles, California

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May 2020

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About Hunter

Hunter Davis is an award winning filmmaker with a variety of contest wins, scripts under option, and projects in development. His high scoring horror/thriller, APART was the 2023 ISA Fast Track Fellowship Suspense Winner and the Winner of the 51st Annual Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Awards. Hunter's award winning spec, BLACK DUST, won Best Action Screenplay at the 2020 Creative Writing Awards and is one of three different projects from Hunter featured on The Red List. His sci-fi/action feature, The Drome, has been under option with studio producer, Lucas Foster (Ford vs. Ferrari, Law Abiding Citizen, Bad Boys) and is currently being shopped. Most recently, Hunter's terrifying microbudget thriller, Symphony of Silence, is currently in pre-production and slated to begin filming in October 2024. Influenced by the groundbreaking genre films of the 80's & 90's, Hunter specializes in commercially viable projects on a budget with contained settings, elevated suspense, and wildly unpredictable twists.

IMDB Link: imdb.me/hunter-d
Resume available upon request

Unique traits: Father of two young boys, surfer for life.

Gender:
Male

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The Drome Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Action A gifted convict with holes in his past is forced to compete in a series of deadly evaluations conducted by a cryptic organization while his memories are slowly revealed. SQUID GAME meets MEMENTO meets CUBE
Apart Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Horror After a struggling bartender is offered the apartment of her dreams, she soon discovers that a former tenant went missing...and she might be next. THE SKELETON KEY meets GET OUT *2023 ISA Fast Track Winner - Suspense Category
Black Dust Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Sci-fi In a future wasteland where survivors live among nano-mutated savages, one mysterious spy infiltrates a dangerous community of outlaws to rescue a kidnapped Doctor on the brink of a world changing discovery.
Cogged Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama A savvy Hollywood producer, a Canadian entrepreneur, and a charismatic Black activist become embroiled in a phony American revolution, only to see the protest movement go viral and their lives spiral out of control.
Checkout Budget: $10M - $30M | Action After a professional assassin on the run finds himself trapped in a rural MegaMart on Christmas Eve, he must join forces with the big box store employees to fight an elite force of mercenaries in a deadly after hours battle for their lives. JOHN WICK meets SUPERSTORE *Top 1% rated script on Coverfly

Credits

Into the Hood (2015)
Film Producer
Life in Your Social Network Presented by Heard (2014)
TV Series Writer
HELL. A. (2014)
TV Series Writer
Where My Heart Beats (2010)
Film Producer
Clifford Lurge: Inaugural Planner (2009)
Film Writer
Homoerotic Trainer (2009)
Film Writer
Beer Pong: Behind the Glory (2007)
Film Writer
Ambiguous
Writer

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Awards

51st Annual Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Awards - Winner, Best Screenplay
(2020)
Creative World Awards - Winner, Best Screenplay
(2020)
Emerging Screenwriter Screenplay Awards - Top Ten Finalist
(2020)
Filmatic Horror Screenplay Awards - Top Ten Finalist
(2020)
Creative World Awards - Finalist
(2018)
Filmmatic Screenplay Awards - Finalist
(2018)
Wayward Film Festival - Finalist
(2018)
Cinequest Screenwriting Competition - Finalist
(2017)
Toronto International Screenwriting Competition - Grand Prize Winner
(2017)
Austin Revolution Film Festival - Semi-Finalist (Top 40)
(2017)
Nashville Film Festival - 2nd Place, Grand Prize Winner Runner Up
(2016)
Screencraft Sci-Fi Competition - Top 20 Semi-Finalist
(2016)
World Series of Screenwriting - Top Ten Finalist
(2016)
Beverly Hills Film Festival - Golden Palm Nominee (Best Screenplay)
(2016)
Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival - Best Trailer
(2014)
Raindance Film Festival - Nominated, Jury Prize
(2010)
International Movie Trailer Festival - Grand Prize Winner
(2010)
PAGE International Screenwriting Contest - Finalist
(2006)