Joshua Davy

Joshua Davy

History

Joshua 曦 Davy is a director from Hong Kong and New Zealand who seeks to impact empathy. Joshua tells stories in fiction, non-fiction, and the spaces in between where characters are situated in worlds where they do not belong. Prior to his freelance career, Joshua was an in-house associate producer at Prophets working on disruptive stories for Netflix, HBO, Vice & Blackbear Pictures. He has also worked at a variety of renown international production companies, including Scott Rudin Productions, Google, Click3X, Rooftop Films in New York, and Moviola and Fluxform Ent. in Hong Kong. As a director, Joshua has garnered several awards and nominations, from Best Film at the Hong Kong Young Filmmakers Award to Best Director at the NYU Tisch 48 Hour Film Festival to the prestigious George A. Heinemann Film grant. Continuing from his creative foundation at the Film & TV Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Joshua is writing his second feature-length script and is in post-production for his first animated short film Dim Sum Boy.

Profile

Joshua Davy

Movies

Eighth Grade
Production Assistant
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.
Stillman's Portrait
Director
A a gay 28 year old in New York is struggling to paint a self-portait for his solo debut at a Chelsea gallery. In search of inspiration, in the form of an old portrait, Stillman journeys to his seaside hometown where he faces the trial of reuniting with his estranged father at the family's boat workshop.
The Shy Nudist
Editor
A short comedy about a nudist living in the East Village who has a enormous crush on his neighbor, Olivia. The catch is - He is shy and cannot work up the courage to ask Olivia on a date. Through capturing the daily routines, such as laundry, grocery shopping, parties and going down his elevator, when he bumps into Olivia, he slowly builds the courage to ask her out. However, things turn sour when he bumps into Olivia and her friend in the elevator one day.
The Shy Nudist
Olivia's Brother
A short comedy about a nudist living in the East Village who has a enormous crush on his neighbor, Olivia. The catch is - He is shy and cannot work up the courage to ask Olivia on a date. Through capturing the daily routines, such as laundry, grocery shopping, parties and going down his elevator, when he bumps into Olivia, he slowly builds the courage to ask her out. However, things turn sour when he bumps into Olivia and her friend in the elevator one day.
The Shy Nudist
Director
A short comedy about a nudist living in the East Village who has a enormous crush on his neighbor, Olivia. The catch is - He is shy and cannot work up the courage to ask Olivia on a date. Through capturing the daily routines, such as laundry, grocery shopping, parties and going down his elevator, when he bumps into Olivia, he slowly builds the courage to ask her out. However, things turn sour when he bumps into Olivia and her friend in the elevator one day.