Tom Davenport (filmmaker)

Davenport with the magic jar in Soldier Jack or The Man Who Caught Death in a Sack

Tom Davenport (born June 13, 1939) is an independent filmmaker and film distributor who has worked for decades documenting American life and exploring folklore. Currently based in Delaplane, Virginia,[1] he is the founder and project director for Folkstreams, a website that houses independent documentary films about American folk roots and cultures.

In the winter 2016, Davenport released his follow-up film to his profile of a North Carolina family, A Singing Stream (1986) which he made in partnership with the Landis family who were featured in that film.[1] In 2018, he released a documentary on a 1932 lynching near his home in Fauquier County in Virginia.[2] He continues to oversee the Folkstreams website, as well as help with the management of his family farm in northern Virginia at Hollin Farms.[3]

  1. ^ a b Barbour, Kehren; Bentley, G. Marc; Curlee, Cary; Engle, Kathryn; Hyle, Kristin M.; Krueger, Victoria; Laney, Jordan; Lindley, William; Roe, Joshua; Sanders, Lynn Moss (Fall 2013 – Winter 2014). "From Documentary Films to YouTube & Folkstreams: Interview with Filmmaker Tom Davenport". Appalachian Journal. 41 (1–2): 78–101.
  2. ^ Del Rosso, Don (May 9, 2017). "Movie revisits 1932 rape, lynching near Hume".
  3. ^ Fellman, Bruce (Jan–Feb 2008). "Roots, now on the web". Yale Alumni Magazine. Yale University. Retrieved 6 July 2014.