Jessica Devaney
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About
Jessica Devaney is a Brooklyn-based producer and the founder of Multitude Films, an independent production company dedicated to telling stories by and about underrepresented communities. She recently produced THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED (Tribeca 2018), dubbed “a real-world conspiracy thriller” by Variety, Cinema Eye-nominated ROLL RED ROLL (Tribeca 2018), LOVE THE SINNER (Tribeca 2017), and Critic’s Choice-nominated SPEED SISTERS (Hot Docs 2015), which The New York Times called “subtly rebellious and defiantly optimistic.” Additional credits include CALL HER GANDA (Tribeca 2018), NAILA & THE UPRISING (IDFA 2017), Peabody Award-winning MY NEIGHBOURHOOD (Tribeca 2012), and Ridenhour Prize-winning BUDRUS (Tribeca 2010). Jessica co-founded the Queer Producers Collective, produced Doc Society’s Queer Impact Producers Lab, and was a Sundance Edit and Story Lab fellow, Women at Sundance fellow, and Sundance Creative Producing Lab advisor.
Roll Red Roll
A whistle-blowing blogger uncovers disturbing social media evidence documenting the gang rape of a teenage girl. The story of a football town divided, ROLL RED ROLL is a true crime thriller examining sexual assault in small town America.
Pray Away
PRAY AWAY tells the story of the history and continuation of the "pray the gay away" or ex-gay movement.
The Feeling of Being Watched
When a filmmaker investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.
The Rashomon Effect
What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?
Always in Season
When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.
Roll Red Roll
ROLL RED ROLL is an augmented live-action role playing game - based on the documentary of the same name - examining sexual assault in small town America.