Taran Davies

Taran Davies is the son of American and British parents, and has lived in both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has attended both Eton College and Harvard University. He graduated from Harvard in 1993. He created his first film documentary film in 1994, called "Around the Sacred Sea". It chronicled a journey around Lake Baikal in Siberia. Since then most of his films as a producer and director have been about Islam and the Islamic world, though Davies is not himself a Muslim. Davies took a regular job in banking in 1996, while continuing with film-making projects on the side. In 2001, he was living in New York City in 2001 and witnessed first-hand the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The event inspired him to devote himself to film-making as a profession and to try to educate Western audiences about different aspects of the Islamic world.