Experiencing Interruptions?

What My Name! Say It!!

  • Vonnia Harris Davis
    Director
    Keep On Pushing; Mojo Risin
  • Vonnia Harris Davis
    Writer
  • Vonnia Harris Davis
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    30 minutes
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Orlando Urban Film Festival
    Orlando, Florida
    United States
    November 18, 2023
    Orlando Urban Film Festival
    Official Winner, Official Selection, Nominated
  • Cannes World Film Festival
    13 Avenue Maurice Chevalier Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 06150 France
    France
    December 27, 2023
    Monthly Competition
    Winner and Official Selection
Director Biography - Vonnia Harris Davis

Vonn is armed with a certificate in Documentary Arts from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and has over 25 years as a speech language pathologist. (West Virginia University, Valdosta University)— she believes that she has earned the privilege to engage minds on many levels, whether film, photography or perspective taking through a critical nonjudgemental lens.
Enamored with images since childhood, Vonn's personal photo & film collection was an empowering resource. Her goal is to redesign the way humans process the state of other humans using film and photography as comparative studies. Due to her natural passion for oral history, more specifically, diversity in African American Appalachia, Vonn finds opportunities for story telling, empathy training about vanishing cultures that are now endangered. Eye focused and ear tuned delivers this piece is fiery.

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Director Statement

A name is a tool that serves as a unique identifier. A talent, career or calling are tools that calibrate cultural imbalances. There has been no other time in American history when culturally responsive people and their fight for freedom, despite fear shocked the traditions of America. It was here that all matters unjust shifted and mass numbers of Black folks shouted, "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud", while snatching the right to self-identify, dropped their slave names. America was shaken at its core and the world watched a REVOLUTION introduce a new swag.