DeMane Davis

DeMane Davis is a producer and director of TV and film. Her debut film Lift, starred a pre-Scandal Kerry Washington as a skilled shoplifter. Davis also served as a director on OWN's Queen Sugar series and Netflix’s limited series Self Made, about Madame CJ Walker’s journey to becoming the first Black woman millionaire in the U.S.

Films


Lift

Stream on YouTube
(2001)

A hypnotic look into the world of "boosters" or shoplifters where a charismatic, intelligent young woman (Kerry Washington), engages in the illegal occupation of shoplifting.