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, 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 through an aggressive marketing and publicity plan.
Ms. Willis has been active in the development and production of multimedia productions for distribution and prevalently feature films for theatrical release. She has produced international, national, and regional commercials, music videos 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, has been selected as the opening night film at the Bahamas International Film Festival. Her music video productions have included works with Grammy nominees and winners including Shawn Mullins and Speech of Arrested Development.
She holds an MBA in International Business and has been continuously engaged in the production of motion pictures since 1999. Her experience in the entertainment business has taken on many roles and responsibilities. After leaving a position with the 1997 World Series Champion Florida Marlins major league baseball organization, she assumed influential roles in marketing and promotions with the Independent Feature Project’s IFFM in New York and later with The Fremantle Corporation.
