Jess Devaney (they/she) is an Emmy-winning producer and Founder & President of Multitude Films. Their latest films include Yance Ford’s Netflix Original Power; Oscar-shortlisted HBO Documentary Films Original How We Get Free; the Indigo Girls documentary It’s Only Life After All; Emmy-winning Peacock Original Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, Emmy-nominated Netflix Original Pray Away, Oscar-shortlisted Call Center Blues, and Apart, the Emmy-winning episode of Through Our Eyes. Jess created the Ford Foundation-supported Queer Futures series and produced Sundance Award-winning and IDA-nominated Always in Season, as well as The Feeling of Being Watched, dubbed “a real-world conspiracy thriller” by Variety. Additional credits include Critics’ Choice-nominated Speed Sisters and IDA Award-nominated Milisuthando, among others.
Her films have been programmed at top festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, BlackStar, and Telluride, among others. Jess founded QueerDoc and was a Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab fellow, Women at Sundance fellow, and Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab advisor. They have been recognized with the Cinereach Producers Award, DOC NYC and Topic Studios’ inaugural 40 Under 40 Award, Doc10’s inaugural Vanguard Award, and the 2023 Sundance Institute Amazon Studios Nonfiction Producers Award. Multitude Films’ latest feature documentary LIFE AFTER, directed by Reid Davenport, will premiere in competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.