Multitude Films Archives

January 18, 2023 Entertainment Law, RPJ News & Publications

Congratulations to Milisuthando Bongela, Marion Isaacs, and Multitude Films on the Upcoming Premiere of Milisuthando at the Sundance Film Festival

Congratulations to our friends and clients Milisuthando Bongela, Marion Isaacs, and Multitude Films on the upcoming premiere of Milisuthando at the Sundance Film Festival! Director, Milisuthando Bongela, reflects on the “moment of first encounter” between previously segregated white and Black South Africans. She draws from her own experiences growing up...

October 11, 2022 Client News, Entertainment Law

Congratulations to RPJ Client Multitude Films on its Emmy Win!

RPJ extends enthusiastic congratulations to our client Multitude Films on their recent Emmy win for Outstanding Short Documentary! Through Our Eyes: Apart is a four-part documentary produced by Multitude Films and Sesame Workshop. The series spotlights the inspiring perspectives of children facing significant familial challenges, such as homelessness, war, climate...

August 2, 2022 Client News, Entertainment Law, RPJ News & Publications

Congratulations to RPJ Client Multitude Films on its Emmy Nomination for “Pray Away”

Pray Away produced by Multitude Films has been nominated for an Emmy Award under the category Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. The film explores the “ex-gay movement” and how former leaders of Exodus International, once the largest conversion therapy organization in the world, have since come out as LGBTQ. The documentary sheds...

June 13, 2022 Client News, Entertainment Law, RPJ News & Publications

“Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power” Produced by RPJ Client Multitude Films Acquired by Peacock

Peacock has acquired the civil rights documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power produced by RPJ client Multitude Films ahead of its world premiere this week at the Tribeca Festival – release date to be announced at a later date. The film is told through first person accounts and...

May 23, 2022 Client News, Entertainment Law

RPJ Client Jessica Devaney Presented the Vanguard Award at Doc10

Doc10, Chicago’s only all-documentary film festival, announced its first-ever awards program, which honored documentary filmmakers. Among this year’s winners is RPJ Client Jessica Devaney, who was presented with the Vanguard Award, created to honor innovative documentary filmmakers, for her production of 17 shorts and features, including Pray Away. The award...

May 10, 2022 Client News, Entertainment Law, RPJ News & Publications

Congratulations to “Milisuthando” for Feature on “Variety”

On May 5, Variety featured Milisuthando Bongela's self-titled documentary on Black middle-class women in post-apartheid South Africa, as part of the 2022 Hot Docs Forum. The film, for which RPJ provides production legal services, is produced by Marion Isaacs for The Good Black Project, in co-production with Sonia Barrera and...

April 21, 2022 Client News

“After Selma: The Lowndes County Freedom Party” Produced by RPJ Client Multitude Films Joins the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival Lineup

After Selma: The Lowndes County Freedom Party produced by RPJ client Multitude Films will be showcased at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary is told from the perspective of those who were on the front lines in 1960s Alabama courageously campaigning against violence and oppression. The fight for the...

July 21, 2021 Client News, Entertainment Law, RPJ News & Publications

Congratulations to Our Client Multitude Films LLC on the Netflix Release of their Film ‘Pray Away’

Netflix has released the official trailer for Pray Away—directed by Kristine Stolakis and produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Television—scheduled to release on Tuesday, August 3. The documentary chronicles the polarity and popularity of Exodus International, an evangelical church group founded in the 1970’s, most known for...

May 14, 2021 Client News, Community & Civic Engagement

Congratulations to Our Client Multitude Films LLC on Their Film ‘Pray Away’

Gay conversion therapy, a product of the “pray the gay away” movement, notably purported by Exodus International, one of the largest and most controversial conversion therapy organizations in the world, has become a pervasive instrument of the religious right, wielded to the disadvantage of many LGBTQ+ youth, and even some...

May 13, 2020 Client News

Client Film “Pray Away” Hailed as the “Must-Watch Movie of the Year”

RPJ is so proud of client and production company Multitude Films’ latest film, the feature-length documentary Pray Away. Directed by Kristine Stolakis, the film goes in depth to reveal the lasting damage inflicted on individuals in gay conversion programs, told by both current members and former leaders of the “pray the gay...

News