TFI New Media Fund 2016
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.
Director/Producer
Nancy Schwartzman is a filmmaker and media strategist who believes storytelling and technology create safer communities for women and girls. A globally recognized human rights activist for gender-based violence, she directed The Line, a documentary examining consent, and PBS/POV and BBC broadcast xoxosms a love story exploring teenagers and technology. Nancy created the White House award-winning mobile app “Circle of 6,” designed to reduce sexual violence used by over 300,000 people in 36 countries. As an impact producer, past campaigns include Academy Award Nominee The Invisible War and Girl Model. She’s presented at the UN, TEDx, WHO, DOCNYC and more.
Design/Technology
Tin works at the intersection of communication and technology for the social good. His goal is to simplify the relationship between data and human beings through stories well told.
Producer
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.