Zeinabu irene Davis is an experimental filmmaker and producer. Her works include the documentary Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA, which chronicles the lives and work of Black filmmakers collectively known as the LA Rebellion, Compensation, an experimental feature film about a deaf woman who falls in love with a hearing man, Mother of The River, A Powerful Thang, and Cycles, her debut short film about a woman who performs African purification rituals as she anxiously waits to find out if she’s pregnant.