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Jess Devaney

Jess Devaney


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Jessica Devaney (Producer) is a Brooklyn-based producer and the founder and president of Multitude Films. Her latest films include Netflix Original Pray Away in partnership with Ryan Murphy and Blumhouse, Oscar-shortlisted Call Center Blues (Topic), and Apart, an episode of the Sesame Workshop series Through Our Eyes (HBO Max). She also produced Sundance award-winning and IDA-nominated Always in Season (Independent Lens 2020), Livingston Reporting award-winning The Feeling of Being Watched (POV 2019), dubbed “a real-world conspiracy thriller” by Variety, and Peabody-nominated Roll Red Roll (POV, Netflix 2019). Additional credits include Critic’s Choice-nominated Speed Sisters (Netflix), American Psychological Association award-winning Love the Sinner (Amazon), and Call Her Ganda (POV). Her films have screened at top festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, BlackStar, and Telluride. Jessica founded QueerDoc and the Queer Producers Network and was a Sundance Edit and Story Lab fellow, Women at Sundance fellow, and Sundance Creative Producing Lab advisor. She received DOC NYC and TOPIC’s inaugural 40 Under 40 Award and the 2019 Cinereach Producers Award.

Associated Credits

Life After interrogates the contradictory political ideologies surrounding death and disability while coalescing the missing voices of the disabled community in the contemporary debate around medically assisted suicide.