Rex Sikes Movie Beats chats with producer Dan Davies partial

Dan Davies, actor, writer, producer. THIS Interview had tech difficulties so it is only about 25 minutes long. It is good so I left it and we did another one - with the word FULL  in the title. Listen to both!!! Dan has over 15 years in the film/television business. He hosted and co-produced over 80 episodes of TV seen throughout the Midwest including a cooking show called,"Sports' Cooking co-hosted by Sara White and the late NFL great Reggie White. In 2005, Dan and Ron Bullock of Video Trend Associates won the Platinum Remi at the 38th Annual Houston International Film Festival (aka WorldFest). Past winners at WorldFest have included Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, George Lucas, Ang Lee, the Coen Brothers, Robert Rodriguez, Ridley Scott, Spike Lee, etc. WorldFest is the largest and arguably the most prestigious in independent film. In 2006, he and Ron, won a Silver Remi at WorldFest. They also won Best Comedy at the 20th Annual Videomaker Magazine Video Contest and in November of 06, Dan was featured on the CBS Evening News. Katie Couric and Steve Bassett, creator of the Geico ads, did an almost three minute segment on funny political ads. Six commercials were featured, and two of those were created by Dan Davies, Robert Lorge, and Video Trend Associates. He  won the 1996 American Dream Festival World Comedy Contest sponsored by HBO and English Leather Cologne. He hosted his own syndicated radio show "The Swami," where he played Achmed Benaben (The Swami) from 1998-2001. Dan has been tapped as the lead role in the upcoming movie "Slade". western based on the life of Joseph Slade written by Michael Blake the Academy Award winning writer of "Dances with Wolves" Stay tuned to Rex Sikes' Movie Beat for other great interviews, cast and crew listings, events, premieres and more at rexsikes.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.