Naldo O. Davenport
- Director
- Writer
Naldo Osric Davenport was born as the 14th child of his parents in South Louisiana in 1991. When some of his older siblings started to create their own homemade plays, his already pre existing interest in movies had increased to another level of involvement into film with his family. They were normally very short action sequences, but they already had the influences and momentum that would make Davenport grow as a filmmaker: creativity, hard work, and amazing storytelling with very limited resources. For example, for his film "The Dark" he used a garden hose to create the practical rain effects, filming with his first camera; a VHS video recorder his family got him. Davenport's first major move towards more serious cinematography came later with a submission to one of his first film festivals. For this film, he shot a black and white tragedy story that he was also featured in as an actor. Later in his twenties he followed a path specifically for bigger film projects and scripts. The film (which was still a short film), "Four Walls of Paint and Psychosis", was made like many other of Davenport first films, in an amateur style, low budget fashion and using hired actor /actresses and local people to star in his film. Davenport himself did nearly everything in his movies; he directed, produced, filmed, edited and even starred in some of them. And everything was filmed on a used DSLR digital cam, a $200 camera. It took Davenport months to make even the short films due to working with all walks of people, limited resources and out of pocket expenses, which never stopped him from pursuing his work. What had started as a fun past time with his brothers and sisters for their parents, had opened up his realization of his purpose and passion for storytelling in the form of film and cinema.