An award-winning independent film producer, Tyler Davidson is the co-founder and president of Low Spark Films, an Ohio-based feature production company. In 2011, he was named one of Variety's "10 Producers to Watch."
He was a Spirit Award nominee as producer of writer/director Jeff Nichols' breakthrough feature Take Shelter, which starred Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. In addition to the Best Feature nod, Take Shelter was nominated for three other Spirit Awards. Take Shelter won the International Critics Week Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival, among other honors worldwide.
Mr. Davidson next produced one of the most talked-about films of 2012, Compliance, written and directed by Craig Zobel, starring Ann Dowd and Dreama Walker. The film was cited as one of the Top 10 Independent Films of the Year by the National Board of Review, which also honored Ms. Dowd as the year's Best Supporting Actress.
He produced The Kings of Summer, The Black List-cited script (originally titled Toy's House) by Chris Galletta that was directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. A hit in its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, the film won the Audience Award at the 2013 Dallas International Film Festival.
His other credits as producer include Jay Craven's The Year That Trembled, for which Mr. Davidson received the Midwest Independent Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 2002 Cleveland International Film Festival; and Derek Sieg's Swedish Auto, starring January Jones and Lukas Haas.
After graduating with honors from the University of Virginia, Mr. Davidson served as president of the Los Angeles-based production company the Lab Entertainment Group, and was co-principal of the Los Angeles-based production company Strange Matter Films. An Ohio native who now resides in the state with his family, he was named one of Cleveland Magazine's Most Interesting People Of 2012.
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