YOU HAD TO BE THERE: HOW THE TORONTO GODSPELL IGNITED THE COMEDY REVOLUTION… Q&A with Filmmaker Nick Davis & Co-Writer Jane Mend
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David Greaves is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. He worked as cinematographer and/or editor on many of his father William Greaves’ films including the famed feature film, SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE 1. Significantly, he was one of the original cameramen during the 1972 shoot for ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. In 1996, he founded DBG Media and the award-winning independent newspaper Our Time Press. As a journalist and writer, he has won numerous awards from the Independent Press Association and the New York Association of Black Journalists, including First Place awards for investigative reporting, in-depth reporting, and personal commentary, among them.
Liani Greaves is an independent producer and Vice-President of William Greaves Productions. She began her career in the mid-90s at Columbia Pictures on I LIKE IT LIKE THAT and as Assistant to Director Jeff Pollack on New Line Cinema’s ABOVE THE RIM, before moving into music video production as Director’s Representative to Hype Williams, brokering projects for artists including The Notorious B.I.G. and Brandy. She subsequently built a producing practice in the non-profit sector, conceiving and producing fundraising campaigns and events including You Rock My Soul at Carnegie Hall for GMHC and A Woman’s Work for the Women’s Prison Association. In 2005, she had the honor of producing alongside her grandfather William Greaves and actor Steve Buscemi on SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE 2½, the follow-up to Greaves’s critically acclaimed SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE.
Liani Greaves is an independent producer and Vice-President of William Greaves Productions. She began her career in the mid-90s at Columbia Pictures on I LIKE IT LIKE THAT and as Assistant to Director Jeff Pollack on New Line Cinema’s ABOVE THE RIM, before moving into music video production as Director’s Representative to Hype Williams, brokering projects for artists including The Notorious B.I.G. and Brandy. She subsequently built a producing practice in the non-profit sector, conceiving and producing fundraising campaigns and events including You Rock My Soul at Carnegie Hall for GMHC and A Woman’s Work for the Women’s Prison Association. In 2005, she had the honor of producing alongside her grandfather William Greaves and actor Steve Buscemi on SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE 2½, the follow-up to Greaves’s critically acclaimed SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE.
