About Us
Maxine Davis, Founder of Every Life is a Story, LLC
Maxine Davis received her Master’s Degree from Syracuse University School of Information Studies after getting an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota. She then established Information Access, one of a handful of companies in the ‘70s that provided on-call business research.
Background
After working a short time in television news, Maxine transitioned into the film industry. Since then, she has handled location and production for hundreds of projects including TV commercials, motion pictures, made-for-TV movies, rock videos, industrials and on-location still-photo shoots. One of her jobs was as Production Coordinator on Prince’s motion picture Purple Rain.
Approach
Maxine’s interest in production took her other places: she attended the Radcliffe Publishing Seminar in Boston, taught Financial Management for Film and Video for a Minneapolis college, and wrote and recorded audio “postcards” about India that were broadcast on National Public Radio’s The Savvy Traveler.
Now Maxine blends her expertise in research and production. She blends family memorabilia with period photos, maps, and old film footage. With tasteful editing she crafts a story that presents a portrait of a person within their place in time in history.
Maxine won the 2006 Minnesota Historical Society's award for "Best Exploration of an Intergenerational Legacy," as part of its competition in the "Moving Pictures - Shared Stories of Minnesota's Greatest Generation." In 2007 she received the nationally recognized Telly Award.
She is a member of the Association of Personal Historians, the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, and Women in Film and Television.