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We’re thrilled to premiere our latest film LIFE AFTER in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. We’re grateful for the work, care and support of this entire film team — full credits and image description in the captions below. LIFE AFTER Directed by Reid Davenport Produced by Colleen Cassingham An ITVS Co-Production In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom trials, Bouvia disappeared from public view. Disabled director Reid Davenport investigates what happened to Bouvia and her story’s disturbing relevance today.

We’re working away at something special, with director Kristine Stolakis and producers Anya Rous & Jess Devaney (the team behind PRAY AWAY, @prayawayfilm) Building off of our work together on Kristine’s feature documentary debut, we’re excited now to be producing Kristine’s sophomore film alive! — an animated, coming-of-age documentary about young people’s mental health Photo from our recent editing retreat ✨

Published today in @filmmakermag, "Permission to Narrate: Narrative Sovereignty in Documentary"⚡ Following a screening of NO OTHER LAND at @camdeniff, Jess Devaney joined a conversation with @zainabseiso, @tracyrectorart & Suhad Babaa ( @justvisionmedia) about the challenges of solidarity and co-authorship in the context of dominant Western media narratives that often fail to give Palestinians the power to tell their own stories. Read at the link in our bio 🔗

Sweta Vohra, Head of Production at Multitude Films & Producer on #POWER, writes about the year in policing and state power at the link in our bio 🔗

Who polices the police, and what gives the police their authority over the people? In this clip from POWER, Wesley Lowery & Nikhil Pal Singh discuss the central questions from the film. POWER, directed by Yance Ford, is now streaming on Netflix 💥

A repost from our Founder & President Jess Devaney, of our team on the way to a screening of POWER in NY: 🌱 "The world is so broken, but each member of this team challenges, inspires, and grounds me." – @jessicadevaney Only missing Anya Rous, Ameena Din, Jake Seymour, & Dr. Kameelah Mu'Min Oseguera ⭐

DEADLINE APPROACHING 🌱 Proposals for REPARATIVE FUTURES are due tomorrow, Friday, November 15 at 11:59pm ET 🌟 Directors must be BGDM members, or submit an application to join 🌟 Stories must be U.S.-focused 🌟 Each project will work with Multitude Films on a $20K–$35K production budget, schedule a 4-week edit & receive a $7K director’s fee 🌟 Films will be in association with BGDM & Executive Producer J Wortham, in collaboration with BLIS Collective Learn more & apply: bit.ly/ReparativeFutures

Sweta Vohra discussing how her decade of experience covering policing all over the country led to her role producing POWER 💥 “I hope what this film can give all of us is a starting point to try to start imagining something completely new.” Thanks to everyone who attended our POWER screening, generously hosted by David France & Bernardo Ruiz with a Q&A moderated by Carol Dysinger 💫

🗽 From Gaza, to Tromsø, to NYC! 🎟️ @jabalymohamed’s ‘Life Is Beautiful: A Letter To Gaza’ is getting a 1 week theatrical run in NYC at the historic DCTV Firehouse Theater! 🍿 On Friday 11/15 at 7pm, our Head of Production & Acquisitions @munir_atalla will be joined by writer Dylan Saba, as well as Emma Alpert of @multitudefilms for a special post-screening Q&A. Ticket purchasing for NYC, LA, SF, and Columbus screenings can be found in our 🔗🌴 #WatermelonPicturesPresents #LifeIsBeautiful #nycfilm #tromsø #worldcinema #fromtherivertothescreen #newyorkcinema

Welcoming Sonia Desai Rayka as Multitude Films' newest Associate Producer ✨ Sonia Desai Rayka (she/her) is a documentary filmmaker, researcher, and cultural worker. Recently, she was an archival researcher on DIRTY POP (TIME Studios, 2024) and THE TURNAROUND (Breakwater Studios, 2024), both available to stream on Netflix. She was a doc and children shorts programmer at the 2024 Nantucket Film Festival, and works with No Evil Eye Cinema as a virtual teaching facilitator. Her documentary short “Ohio is in the Heart” was commissioned by Asian American Documentary Network and played at CAAM Fest and New Orleans Film Festival. She believes that investigative work does not have to just be informative, it can also be beautiful. Based in Brooklyn by way of Ohio, Sonia is the granddaughter of Raghunath and Dhanaben.

Baltimore, MD 📍 Come gather in community with us to watch and discuss POWER, a new film by @multitudefilms & @yanceford tracing the accumulation of money, the consolidation of political power + and the nearly unrestricted bipartisan support that has created the institution of policing as we know it Post election, we're thankful to be able to offer this film at the radical bookstore @redemmas, as a tool for re-imagining public safety together 💭

Highlights from a full house POWER screening, generously hosted by David France & Bernardo Ruiz with a Q&A moderated by Carol Dysinger ⭐️ Part essay, part interview, and part archival collage, Power uses historical materials to illustrate our contemporary realities and examines urgent questions about a growing and largely unchecked authority—who is policed, who is protected, who gets to decide, and why. Watch POWER on Netflix 🔗