Utopia International Jury 2021-22 & Artistic Director of the Fantasia International Fantastic Film Festival in Montreal. Canada
Mitch Davis has been a Director of International Programming at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal since 1997, Co-Festival-Director from 2003-2019 and Artistic Director since 2019.
As a filmmaker, Davis directed the shorts DIVIDED INTO ZERO (1999 - winner, Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the Chicago Underground Film Festival) and GOD’S LITTLE GIRL (2006) and produced Karim Hussain’s transgressive feature debut SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY (2000) as well as Rick Trembles’ GOOPY SPASMS (2004). Davis was an associate Producer on the anthology feature ABC’S OF DEATH 2 (2014) and is an AP on Pablo Absento’s BLOAT (2022).
Davis has written for a multitude of cinema and culture publications including Fangoria, Rue Morgue Magazine, Eyeball and the Harvard film journal Post Script and has written chapters for a number of FAB Press publications, including ART OF DARKNESS: THE CINEMA OF DARIO ARGENTO and TEN YEARS OF TERROR: BRITISH HORROR FILMS OF THE 1970’s. From 1999-2006, he was a programmer at Montreal rep theatre Cinema Du Parc.
