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Allison Caviness

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Allison Caviness is a director across narrative, commercial, documentary, music video, and branded content. Her work blends emotional depth, visual elegance, and social urgency.

A multidisciplinary creative, Allison has built a career as a former creative director for brands including Netflix, Freeform, BET, Centric, and Black Girls Rock! Allison spent years shaping stories, campaigns, and visual identities that speak to culture with clarity and impact. Her current body of work marks a deeper return to the stories that have always called to her: intimate, politically resonant portraits of women navigating love, ambition, family, the body, and the systems that attempt to define them. She directed the taped comedy special SPADURA, which centers comedian Dahéli Hall's raw, hilarious, and unflinching journey through infertility and the baby industrial complex. Her upcoming short film, You Can Hide These Things, starring Christina Elmore and Nyasha Hatendi, continues her emotional exploration of reproductive autonomy, partnership, and the quiet negotiations women make around motherhood, career, and selfhood. Allison’s work is grounded in human complexity and elevated by a strong visual point of view.

Her goal is to always "give them something they can feel".

Allison holds a BA in Film from Howard University.
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  • Known for

    Breakup at a Wedding (2013)
    Breakup at a Wedding
    5.1
    • Sage(as Alison Caviness)
    • 2013
    Sh'Kia and Nijah Brenea in Kold x Windy (2023)
    Kold x Windy
    5.9
    TV Series
    • Director(as Alison Caviness)
    Dahéli Hall in Spadura (2025)
    Spadura
    TV Special
    • Director(as Alison Caviness)
    • 2025
    Chris Diamantopoulos and Kelly Overton in Under New Management (2009)
    Under New Management
    6.0
    • Costume and Wardrobe Department
    • 2009

    Credits

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    Director



    • Dahéli Hall in Spadura (2025)
      Spadura
      TV Special
      • directed by
      • director (as Alison Caviness, as Alison Caviness)
      • 2025
    • Show Me More (2021)
      Show Me More
      5.7
      TV Series
      • Director (as Alison Caviness)
      • 2022–2023
    • Sh'Kia and Nijah Brenea in Kold x Windy (2023)
      Kold x Windy
      5.9
      TV Series
      • Director (as Alison Caviness)
      • 2023
    • Viola Davis in The Woman King (2022)
      Woman King Film Promo - Sony Pictures x VH1
      5.0
      Video
      • Director (as Alison Caviness)
      • 2022
    • Behind Better Call Saul: Season Finale
      Short
      • director (as Alison Caviness)
      • 2022

    Actress



    • Breakup at a Wedding (2013)
      Breakup at a Wedding
      5.1
      • Sage (as Alison Caviness)
      • 2013
    • A Period Piece
      Short
      • Mom
      • 2005

    Costume and Wardrobe Department



    • Chris Diamantopoulos and Kelly Overton in Under New Management (2009)
      Under New Management
      6.0
      • costumer
      • 2009
    • The War Within (2005)
      The War Within
      6.8
      • wardrobe assistant
      • 2005

    Personal details

    • Alternative name
      • Alison Caviness
    • Height
      • 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)

    Did you know

    • Trivia
      Her maternal grandmother, model and singer Doris Marie Jones was voted one of the top ten most beautiful Negro women in America and was the first African-American to model for Macy's.

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