Peter Davenport is a screenwriter-director. He received his MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School, certificates in Producing for Film & TV (NYU), and Screenwriting (NYU, UCLA, NFTS), and studied Directing at NFTS. Originally from Flint, Michigan, he pursued his childhood dream of becoming an actor and worked for three decades in the theatre, film and TV, before shifting his passion for storytelling to behind the camera.

 

Peter wrote and directed the award-winning shorts “A Family Dinner”, “How Can I Reach You?”, and cowrote award-winning short “Inescapable.” He is interested in telling stories that investigate the nuanced complexity of family relationships, inherited trauma, brokenness, and the transformative and healing nature of forgiveness. His stories are driven by the hidden push-pull of everyday life, the battle or reconciliation of who we are on the outside with who we are on the inside, the outward facing life the world sees versus our private behind-closed-doors and internal life that exists bubbling just beneath the surface that threatens to expose us at any moment.