Trevite Willis, producer

Trevite Willis is a producer at Southern Fried Filmworks LLC. Ms. Willis is responsible for production from the conceptual stage through completion. She controls all aspects of the film process, and is involved on a daily basis with the creative, financial, technological, and administrative processes. Her duties also include creating and overseeing the production of interactive media and securing distribution and sales.

She has produced music videos, short and feature films including the romantic comedy “What a Man Wouldn’t Do for a Woman,” and the African American gay coming-of-age “Blueprint,” which enjoyed success at festivals such as the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, OutFest, NewFest, Frameline as well as others around the world.

The 2008 Columbia University short film, Uncle Killa, she produced earned the director a DGA Best Student Film – African American award. Also Uncle Killa was selected as an HBO finalist at the American Black Film Festival, and picked up by HBO, which began airing February 2009.

Currently, the Bahamian drama, Children of God, based on the award-winning short film Float, will be released theatrically in Spring 2011 and her next project, The Day Eazy E Died is in development.

Her music video productions have included works with Grammy nominees and winners including Shawn Mullins and Speech of Arrested Development.