DESHA DAUCHAN
Writer/Director
TALenT DeVeLoPMenT ProGrAM:
Screenwriters Lab
CUrrenT ProJeCT:
Kalfou (A Crossroads Tale) (Narrative Feature)
LOGLINE
A desperate man trades his soul for the gift of extraordinary musical talent in this modern day retelling of the
Robert Johnson crossroads myth.
BIO
Desha Dauchan is a Howard University Alumna, and a graduate from UCLA Film School (MFA 2002,
Directing) where she received the Jim Morrison Award for excellence in Directing, the Verna Fields Women
in Film Award, and the Multicultural Motion Picture Association’s Diversity Award and the Wasserman Grant.
Dauchan’s short fi lm, Episodes, earned her the Best Narrative Short at The Jamerican Film Festival and the
UCLA Spotlight Award. It was also a fi nalist in the HBO Short Film Competition at the Acapulco Black Film
Festival, and the Directors Guild of America Student Award (taking her to the American Pavilion at Cannes as
a Kodak Emerging Filmmaker).
Her most recent short fi lm, Whispers, a thriller, has earned acclaim as a fi nalist in the HBO Short Film
competition at the American Black Film Festival. It was honored with the U.C.L.A. Spotlight Award and
Student Awards for Best Editing and Visual Design. After winning the IFP Gordon Parks Award/Directing,
Whispers screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Dauchan shadowed on both the shoot and post-
production of the fi lm Caveman’s Valentine with her Film Independent Project: Involve mentor, Kasi
Lemmons.
She recently completed a feature length screenplay based on her short Whispers. In the summer of 2007,
Dauchan participated in the CBS Diversity Program for Television Directing, shadowing directors on such
acclaimed shows as HBO’s The Wire. In the fall of 2007 Dauchan was hired to adapt the book, Trying to
Sleep In The Bed You Made, for independent producer Tracey Kemble & 3 Colored Girls Productions. In
2008 Dauchan joins the faculty at CalArts.
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