Trevite Willis

Trevite Willis is an independent producer and film festival founder committed to courageous
storytelling and championing voices of color.

Ms. Willis is a one of the Co-Producers on the Broadway musical, THE WIZ; Co-Executive
Producer on the Sundance 2023 film, TO LIVE AND DIE AND LIVE; and was an executive
producer on the Sundance 2020 award-winning film, FORTY YEAR OLD VERSION. She is
currently in post production on the 2020 political documentary, BLACK VOTERS MATTER,
following civil rights activists LaTosha Brown and Cliff and April Albright as they rallied voters in
the general and Georgia’s U.S. Senate run-off elections.

Ms. Willis is a producer on a number of projects in production: LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT and
THE INQUISITOR: THE BARBARA JORDAN DOC.

She has produced 7 feature films, including CARGO (2017 Amnesty International Human Rights
Prize), BLOOD BOUND, MAYA AND HER LOVER, and CHILDREN OF GOD which had theatrical
releases in the US, UK and The Netherlands, won 17 awards, and sold in 24 territories.

In 2018, Ms. Willis launched the Southern Fried Film Festival in Huntsville, Alabama with fellow
founder, Kelley Reischauer.

She was a 2020 Blackhouse Multicultural Producers Lab fellow. She is an alumni of Trans
Atlantic Partners (2017), a Sundance Catalyst fellow (2018), and a Women at
Sundance Strategy Intensive fellow (2017, 2019). Ms Willis was a SXSW Tech Conference
speaker (Mining Diversity: Developing a Community of Color, 2012).

Ms. Willis is a member of New York Women In Film and Television, Women in Film, The Gotham
and Women Independent Producers.