The Rashomon Effect
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Logline
What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?
Lyric Cabral
Director, Producer
Lyric R. Cabral creates investigative work that exposes new information for the public record. Cabral’s directorial debut (T)ERROR was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and Variety praised the feature documentary as "a vital exposé.” Now available for global broadcast on Netflix, (T)ERROR has screened at more than 50 film festivals worldwide. Lyric is a recipient of the International Documentary Association’s Emerging Filmmaker Award and she has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. A current Rockwood/ Just Films Fellow, Lyric is a former Sundance Women in Film Fellow and is a veteran of Sundance Institute’s Edit Lab and Creative Producing Lab. Prior to filmmaking, Lyric worked as a photojournalist- her images are held in collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Studio Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum.
Jessica Devaney
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.