News
Reviews
4. 10. 2024
The New York Times
IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL Review: Indigo Girls Laugh Last
“An affecting portrait of two women who have stuck to their beliefs and, just as important, their loyalty to each other.”
Awards
2. 15. 2024
POWER on the CPH:DOX Human Rights:
Award Competition Lineup
“The award honors filmmakers who depict the human rights challenges of our time.”
Reviews
1. 26. 2024
The Hollywood Reporter
Interviews
1. 20. 2024
The Wrap
Interview with POWER Director Yance Ford
What we hope is that people will take a step back and consider the institution of policing as something that needs to be rebuilt.”
Press
1. 11. 2024
Ebony Magazine
Director Twiggy Pucci Garçon Celebrates Siblinghood and Self-discovery
Press
10.10.2024
Deadline
STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS at DOC NYC 2024
“Refusing to give up their rights over their sacred land, Native Hawaiian mothers and daughters band together to stop the construction of a massive telescope on Mauna Kea.” — DOC NYC
Press
11.26.2024
Filmmaker Magazine
Permission to Narrate: Narrative Sovereignty in Documentary
Press
3. 27. 2024
The New Yorker
Flipping the Script on Trans Medical Encounters
“Noah Schamus and Brit Fryer’s short film offers a vision of how physicians and trans patients can meet one another on equal footing.”
Press
12. 21. 2023
The Hollywood Reporter
HOW WE GET FREE on the Academy Awards Documentary Short Film Shortlist
Press
12. 06. 2023
Deadline
POWER Selected for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Reviews
12. 20. 2023
Filmmaker Magazine
XTR is Trying to Solve the Crisis in Documentary Film, but Some Filmmakers Feel Betrayed
Reviews
12. 19. 2023
The Advocate
INDIGO GIRLS: IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL is getting a theatrical release, made possible by Oscilloscope Laboratories, in Spring 2024
Interviews
11. 10. 2023
Documentary Magazine
“Who Is an Expert?”
Brit Fryer Discusses THE SCRIPT
Press
11. 07. 2023
Realscreen
HBO slates HOW WE GET FREE short with The New York Times
Press
07. 26. 2023
The New York Times
Barbie’s song of choice on her way to the Real World is the Indigo Girls’ “Closer to Fine”.
“It’s about seeking out more than you thought you believed.”
Reviews
07. 19. 2023
Seen
With ‘Queer Futures’ Joy Becomes a Strategy for Liberation
“That resistance is the how but what’s under that resistance is joy […] a root of resilience.” - Twiggy Pucci Garçon.
Interviews
05. 16. 2023
Pure Nonfiction
Rallying Hope & Resistance in Today’s Marketplace
“Our current landscape reminds me of how the blockbuster-focused 1980’s gave way to the indie film heyday of the 90’s.”
Reviews
04. 08. 2023
The Aspen Times
Aspen Shortsfest Documentary HOW WE GET FREE Tracks Activist Politician’s Battle to End Bail
Reviews
03. 26. 2023
MSNBC
Why LOWNDES COUNTY Matters
“The county where much of the iconic five-day civil rights march actually took place is mostly a footnote in America’s collective memory. But not anymore.”
Awards
02. 22. 2023
Sundance Institute
Jess Devaney Awarded Sundance Institute Amazon Producers Award for Nonfiction, on behalf of Multitude Films
Interviews
01. 22. 2023
Filmmaker Magazine
“I Was Blind to My Own Blackness by Apartheid’s Design:” Milisuthando Bongela on Milisuthando
Reviews
01. 18. 2023
Variety
Sundance-Bound Indigo Girls Documentary Unveils First Look
Reviews
11. 02. 2022
The Atlantic
The Little-Known Roots of ‘Black Power’
Reviews
10. 24. 2022
Sesame Workshop
Production Begins on Season Two of Award-Winning Docuseries Through Our Eyes, From the Makers of Sesame Street
Reviews
11. 04. 2022
Television Academy
APART wins the Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary
Press
10. 21. 2022
Deadline
Greenwich Entertainment Acquires U.S. Theatrical Rights To ‘Lowndes County And The Road To Black Power,’ Critics Choice Documentary Awards Nominee
Press
06. 02. 2022
Deadline
Peacock Acquires Tribeca Civil Rights Doc ‘Lowndes County And The Road To Black Power’ In Streamer’s Latest Documentary Deal
Awards
06. 29. 2022
Documentary Magazine
Liberation Isn’t Something We Arrive At
Press
05. 27. 2022
Deadline
Multitude Films and Chicken & Egg Pictures Partner on Queer Futures
Awards
05. 20. 2022
Deadline
Doc10 First-Ever Vanguard Award Honors Jess Devaney
Press
02. 23. 2022
Documentary Magazine
Curation is Not Censorship
Awards
02. 10. 2022
SIMA Awards
Multitude Films Receives Vital Voices Award for Second Consecutive Year
Interviews
06. 30. 2021
Documentary Magazine
Queering Documentary: An LGBTQ+ Conversation by Jess Devaney
Press
09. 29. 2021
Variety
LGBTQ-Led Multitude Films Digs Into Issues and Filmmakers That Others May Overlook
Awards
06. 30. 2022
The Gotham
Introducing Anya Rous as a 2021 Gotham/Cannes Producers Network Fellow
Press
06. 21. 2021
Deadline
PRAY AWAY, CALL CENTER BLUES Producer Multitude Films Inks With ICM Partners
Press
05. 12. 2021
Deadline
PRAY AWAY Conversion Therapy Doc From Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum to Debut on Netflix
2020
FORD FOUNDATION
Jess Devaney on filmmaker-driven hybrid financing models
10.26.2020
WHAT’S UP WITH DOCS / DOK LEIPZIG PODCAST
Geeta Gandbhir and Jess Devaney – "Fight the Power"
05.18.2020
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Multitude Films producing Indigo Girls documentary
08.04.2020
DOCUMENTARY MAGAZINE
Premiering Documentaries in a Pandemic
03.24.2020
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
Sheltering in Place: The Independent Film Community Faces the Coronavirus Shutdown
02.05.2020
DEADLINE
CALL CENTER BLUES at SXSW, “SXSW Unveils Lineup Of Midnighters, Festival Favorites, Shorts, Episodic Pilots And More”
2019
10.10.2019
VARIETY
THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED and ROLL RED ROLL on the IDA Awards Shortlists
09.17.2019
DEAR PRODUCER
Interview with Cinereach Producer Award Winner Jess Devaney
07.19.2019
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE
Multitude Films’ Anya Rous a 2019 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow
05.01.2019
VARIETY
Multitude Films’ Lisa Valencia-Svensson on the ‘Personal Passion’ to Push Diversity
2018
11.28.2018
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE
Always in Season Selected for 2019 Sundance Film Festival
11.08.2018
CINEMA EYE HONORS
Roll Red Roll Nominated for Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight Award
10.18.2018
DOC NYC
Multitude Films’ Jess Devaney named DOC NYC & TOPIC’s "40 'Under 40"
05.05.2018
VARIETY
Variety Calls THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED a "Real-world Conspiracy Thriller"
04.18.2018
VARIETY
At Tribeca, Documentaries Dig Deep Beyond the Headlines