About US
Meet the production team:
Ron Davis
Director/Producer
Full Bio
Ron Davis was born and raised in northern New Jersey. He spent nearly ten years in New York City managing global sales and licensing for the publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Sterling Publishing (a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc.). As a filmmaking enthusiast and in his spare time, Ron co-directed/produced Pageant (2009), a film that follows the lives of five female impersonators as they vie for the crown at the 34th annual Miss Gay America Pageant. Pageant made its theatrical debut at New York City's Cinema Village theater and its television premiere on The Sundance Channel. The film was distributed worldwide by Wolfe Video.
In 2010, Ron moved to Wellington, FL and started the production company Docutainment, where he turned his attention to producing and directing documentary films on a full-time basis. Docutainment first feature documentary, Miss You Can Do It (2013), chronicled Abbey Curran, Miss Iowa USA 2008 and the first woman with a disability to compete at the Miss USA Pageant, as well as eight young girls with various disabilities as they participate in the Miss You Can Do It Pageant. It was an HBO Original Documentary Film.
Distributed by FilmRise and Netflix, Harry and Snowman (2016), tells the remarkable love story between Dutch immigrant Harry deLeyer and the horse Snowman, which he bought for $80 off of a slaughter truck bound for the glue factory. The film was a critical and box office hit as one of 2016’s top theatrical grossing documentary films.
FilmRise purchased worldwide rights to Ron’s fourth feature film, Life in The Doghouse (2018), which tells the inspiring story of Danny Robertshaw and Ron Danta who have saved and found homes for more than 11,000 abused, abandoned and starving dogs. The documentary finished its 2018 award-winning film festival season and Gathr Theatrical On-Demand® release and premiered on Netflix in summer 2019.
Ron and Docutainment have several film and television projects currently in development and production.
Distributed by FilmRise and Netflix, Harry and Snowman (2016), tells the remarkable love story between Dutch immigrant Harry deLeyer and the horse Snowman, which he bought for $80 off of a slaughter truck bound for the glue factory. The film was a critical and box office hit as one of 2016’s top theatrical grossing documentary films.
FilmRise purchased worldwide rights to Ron’s fourth feature film, Life in The Doghouse (2018), which tells the inspiring story of Danny Robertshaw and Ron Danta who have saved and found homes for more than 11,000 abused, abandoned and starving dogs. The documentary finished its 2018 award-winning film festival season and Gathr Theatrical On-Demand® release and premiered on Netflix in summer 2019.
Ron and Docutainment have several film and television projects currently in development and production.
