Talent Guide

Bella Wing-Davey

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Grants and Awards 2013, Producing Lab 2013

Bio

Bella Wing-Davey is an award-winning British filmmaker and the inaugural recipient of the Creative Media Services Producing Award. Her projects have received support for short film production and feature development from the Sloan Foundation (Flood and Flood (the short film), The Rain Collector), Sundance Institute (Flood), Panavision New Filmmakers (Flood), Spike Lee Production Grant (Afronauts). She has worked in production and development for Stephen Woolley and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and her work has been seen at festivals around the world.
Wing-Davey holds a BA from Cambridge University in History, and is currently a thesis student in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program (Dean’s Scholarship and Tisch School of the Arts Fellowship).
She was a finalist for the Sundance Creative Producing Fellowship in 2013. Wing-Davey was the Executive Producer for a pilot collaboration between the Sloan Foundation and the Graduate Departments of Design and Film at NYU overseeing production of 5 shorts shot this spring. Wing-Davey was one of three filmmakers to represent NYU Grad film at the Illumenation Film Festival 2012 in Helsinki. She had her first feature film directing experience in 2012 on the James Franco produced film Black Dog, Red Dog, working with actors Tim Blake Nelson, Chloe Sevigny and Logan Marshall Green. She has 3 short films in post, as well as producing Music Videos and working for Cooper’s Town Productions. Wing-Davey also has 3 features in development, and Flood will be her first as a producer.

Current Project

Flood

Logline

A paleontologist turned creationist and his estranged daughter are forced to reconcile after he becomes the subject of her radio segment.