DuBois studied Painting, Printmaking, Photography, and World Religion at VCU in Richmond and moved to Florida to start a sailing charter company, where she was one of the first women in the U.S. to receive her Captain's License. DuBois moved her charter business to St. Maarten, Netherland Antilles and St. Barth, French West Indies in the Caribbean, where she owned and ran a 50' Spronk catamaran for many years. There, she received an education in life in the Banana Republic and in that eternal search for Paradise.

Today, DuBois lives and works in Los Angeles, California as a writer, producer, and director for film and television.

"The satirical humor of 'West of the Equator' mirrored my own comical encounter of almost being thrown in a Caribbean jail, and Herman Wouk's accounts of life in Paradise in his famous book, "don't Stop the Carnival." I just knew when I was finished reading DuBois' new installment of surviving Paradise, I just had to make the movie."

Jeff Apple - Producer of "the Recruit" & "In the Line of Fire"