Danielle Beverly
Danielle Beverly (Producer)Danielle Beverly is a mid-career, independent documentary filmmaker with four feature documentaries as Director/Producer. The Hijacker is the second project she has produced with director Marco Williams. The first was Lonnie Holley: The Truth of the Dirt, broadcast on Black Public Media’s AfroPop series.
As a Director/Producer, Beverly works as a one-person crew to craft observational documentaries that have been selected for industry events at DOC NYC and Doha Film Institute’s Qumra, been broadcast on PBS/World Channel and Al Jazeera Witness, and received distribution through Women Make Movies. Her latest documentary, Qatar Stars(2023) follows a rhythmic gymnastics school, with girls aged 9-15 from Qatar, Lebanon, Egypt, Ukraine, UK. Her funders have included: Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, Doha Film Institute, NYSCA, Puffin, Eastman Fund, Illinois Arts Council, University Film & Video Foundation, and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Her Fellowships include: Flaherty Fellowship, First CutLab, Mary L. Nohl Artists Fellowship for Established Artists, BAVC National MediaMaker Fellowship, and CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy.
Beverly is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, teaching documentary in the Radio, TV and Film Department and MFA in Documentary Media Program.