Grew up in Miami. Graduated from Dartmouth College in 1990, then attended AFI's editing program. Her first paying job in the film business was editing promos for the Playboy Channel. She raised $60,000 to make her first feature "I Love You, Don't Touch Me!" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997 to rave reviews and sold to the Samuel Goldwyn Co. Followed up her Sundance hit with back-to-back films "Amy's Orgasm" and "All Over the Guy". In 2001, Davis gave birth to her best production to date, her son Holden.
