He served as a missionary for the church in Córdoba, Argentina[2] in the 1970s and received a bachelor's degree in English from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1982.
[4] Davis later attended the University of Southern California and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in film production in 1989.
He went on to become a creative executive, working on films such as Dead Poet’s Society (1989), White Fang (1991), The Rocketeer (1991), and Newsies (1992).
"[9] After The Other Side of Heaven, he wrote and directed Language of the Enemy (originally entitled A House Divided), a story about an American Jewish man's travel to Israel and his subsequent romantic relationship with a Palestinian woman.
[12] In 2015 he wrote, directed, and produced Christmas Eve, a family holiday comedy starring Sir Patrick Stewart.
Davis co-wrote the PBS docudrama Joseph Smith: American Prophet in 2017, a remake of the 1999 film of the same name.
Davis has released a book entitled Journey of Faith: The Making of the Other Side of Heaven, with Molen and Garbett as co-authors.