Exclusive: Damien Davis, who directed its episodes Queen Sugar And Netflix’s Self-made: Inspired by the life of Madame CJ WalkerTapped to handle NBC pilot 7 Found.
Davis will direct the pilot episode of the Missing Persons drama, starring Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Comes from TV.
It reunites the director with Barlanti, with whom he worked on the Netflix episode. You And Red line.
This comes after Davis recently signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group and expanded a relationship that began in 2017 when Ava Duvern made her television series debut in an episode of the Array Filmworks drama series. Queen Sugar.
She then became the show’s producer-director in the third season and overseen the show’s all-female directing team, a Duverne-created venture that continues throughout the show’s upcoming sixth season.
He has also directed episodes of Shondland How to escape murder, Station 19, And For People For the ABC and recently co-executive CBS drama Clarice And directed the season finale of the two episodes.
Found Is produced by the title and Shameless Former student Shanola Hampton, who plays public relations expert Gabi Mosle.
The series looks at missing persons in the United States – in any one year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the United States, and more than half the number of people of color who the country seems to have forgotten.
Mosle, of Hampton, who himself was one of those missing persons, and his Crisis Management team make sure there is always someone to look for the missing. But unknown to anyone, this everyday hero has hidden a cool secret of his own.
Executive Productions for Barlanti, Sarah Shechter and David Madden Berlanti Productions, with Carol and Lindsay Right for Carol Rock My Soul. Barlanti Productions and Rock My Soul Productions co-produced with Warner Bros. TV.
Davis is repp by APA.
