Biography
Jacqui Davies is a British producer and curator working at the intersection of art and cinema. She is the director of production company Primitive Film and has produced over 80 films, as well as site-specific commissions and works for stage and broadcast. Her productions have premiered at festivals including Cannes, Locarno and CPH:DOX.
Davies co-founded Animate Projects in 2007 and, as Head of Production and Gallery Exhibition, commissioned projects for Channel 4 over twelve years. Between 2011 and 2013 she produced 25 artists’ films for the Random Acts strand. She produced the feature film Ray & Liz (2018), directed by Richard Billingham.
Davies received a BAFTA nomination and won the BIFA Breakthrough Producer award for Ray & Liz. She is also a recipient of the BFI Vision Award and was selected for ACE Producers 2020 (ACE30).
