Multitude Films is an independent production company dedicated to transformative culture change through nonfiction storytelling.
Our Approach
Oriented by a culture change approach, we make award-winning films that change the way global audiences see the world around them. We produce, executive produce, and consult on nonfiction features, shorts, and series with a focus on equity and representation both on screen and behind the camera. Our entire slate is directed by historically excluded and underrepresented communities.
Recognition
Our critically-acclaimed films have been distributed by Netflix, HBO, POV, and The Criterion Channel and showcased at Sundance, Hot Docs, SXSW, and IDFA, among other festivals. Our work is multiple Emmy Award-winning, Peabody-nominated, and Academy Award-shortlisted; and our producers have been recognized by the Sundance Institute Amazon Studios Producer Award, DOC NYC 40 Under 40, Cinereach Producers Award, SIMA Vital Voices Award, and more. Our films and writing have been featured in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times, and more.
Impact Strategy
We’re one of few production companies that integrates a social change orientation and impact strategy from the earliest stages of our involvement in a project. Our slate is built around core issue areas, allowing us to engage communities and movements over time and build impact cumulatively – since individual films are never silver bullet solutions.
Productions
Multitude Films is a full-service production company that combines production services with tailored creative producing and ongoing political education. We are committed to care at every stage of our work and aim to shift norms across our industry — with a vision of a film industry that values and rewards projects directed and crewed by teams of color, LGBTQ filmmakers, filmmakers with disabilities, working class filmmakers, and women.
Authorship
Multitude Films is also committed to responsible authorship, where the core creative team behind a film has a stake in the communities that will be most impacted by the story. We’re also invested in mentoring the next generation of independent producers through our Producer Apprenticeship program.
Jess Devaney
Founder & President
Jake Seymour
Finance Assistant
Sweta Vohra
Head of Production
Anya Rous
Co-Founder & Vice President
Colleen Cassingham
Producer
Emma Alpert
Head of People & Partnerships
Dr Kameelah Mu’min Oseguera
Head of Care
Lissa Deonarain
Communications Manager
Producer Apprenticeship Program
Our below-the-line team of Associate Producers and Production Coordinators have clear paths of advancement to lead producing—from ongoing masterclasses on a range of skills and topics as they relate to our films to a workplace culture of peer mentorship, knowledge sharing, and intimate access to production company operations. These producer apprentices work across several films on our slate and gain experience in a range of storytelling approaches, varied directing styles, and strategic and ethical questions posed by the filmmaking process.
Featured Directors
Mili Bongela
Assia Boundaoui
Justyn Ah Chong
Reid Davenport
Lindsey Dryden
Yance Ford
Twiggy Pucci Garçon
Jalena Keane-Lee
Samantha Knowles
Grace Lee
Pj Raval
Noah Schamus
Kristine Stolakis
Rudy Valdez
Sasha Wortzel
Geeta Gandbhir
Brit-Fryer
Sam Pollard
Jacqueline Olive
Films
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![The film poster for Life After, showing a silhouetted wheelchair user at the bottom of a teal staircase as flowers bloom in the doorway at the top.]()
Life After
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![The film poster for Power shows cops and people tussling in grainy black and white.]()
Power
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![A person raising a fist with her back turned to the camera and facing a crowd of onlookers]()
Standing Above The Clouds
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![Film poster for Through our Eyes that shows a close-up of young Hawaiian boy with brown eyes and a leafy green headpiece on, in profile.]()
Through Our Eyes: Reclaim & Leading
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![Queer Futures film poster with a photograph of two people in a reflective pool wearing decorative headpieces and red swimsuits on their ample bodies. There are four film festival laurels above the film title and credits.]()
Queer Futures
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![A pink poster with paper cutouts of the Indigo Girls in black and white with the handwritten text "it's only life after all"]()
Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All
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![A black woman sitting in a chair wearing a mask and holding a cell phone]()
How We Get Free
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![A black poster with a light pink chalk drawn profile of a person in the center, surrounded by dried flowers, herbs, colored sand, a ripped book page, and a small black-and-white family portrait. White lettering say "Milisuthando" at the bottom.]()
Milisuthando
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![A yellow poster with red and black lettering and image of a Black fist bursting out of a gray and black box that says "Vote" in white letters. Black-and-white photographs of men speaking at a rally and a wooden building sit under the ballot box.]()
Lowndes County and The Road to Black Power
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![Film poster with image of a young Black boy smiling in profile, wearing a black and grey bucket hat. White text reads "Through Our Eyes: Four-part docuseries from Sesame Workshop."]()
Through Our Eyes: Apart
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![Pray Away film poster with photograph of multiple hands crisscrossing to touch each other, with one hand touching the forehead of a white person with freckles and closed eyes, the reflection of a rainbow shines over their face and upper arm.]()
Pray Away
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![Call Center Blues film poster shows a border wall stretching into the distance, with white clouds and blue sky above it. A close-up profile of a person with long eye lashes and a headset on is imposed on the negative space of the sky above the wall.]()
Call Center Blues
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![A film poster with a silhouette of a Black woman with curly hair staring to the side. A photo of a tree with a rope noose hanging from it is reflected in the back of her hair, and a photo of a group of people is reflected in her torso.]()
Always in Season
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![Poster shows an Arab woman in a red headscarf looking out the curtains of a window at a black car parked on the street. There is a green lawn in the foreground and house and mosque in the background.]()
The Feeling of Being Watched
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![Call Her Ganda film poster has a photo of a femme Filapina person staring into the camera, with long purple hair with red streaks. She wears small silver hoop earrings and a delicate chain necklace.]()
Call Her Ganda
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