Devon Blackwell is a director and editor based in Brooklyn, NY.
Goodbye, Morganza
In an intimate, archive-driven documentary, Goodbye, Morganza examines a property dispute that led to one family's displacement from the home they’d owned since 1892. Today, their youngest daughter is left to pick up the pieces—all of them fitting within two storage units.
Role: Director
Awards/Recognition: Tribeca Festival 2023 Special Jury Mention
Jury comment: “This film is a beautiful, humanity-filled portrait of a family that tells the larger American story of race, economic inequity, and home.”
Nina & Irena
In a documentary presented by Errol Morris and directed by Daniel Lombroso, a grandmother reckons with her sister’s sudden disappearance during the Second World War.
Role: Producer
Awards/Recognition: Best Short Documentary Award Mountainfilm 2023, DOC NYC Short List
“It's not just a great Holocaust film, it's a great film. Period. To call Nina a kindred spirit has to be something of an understatement. Adorable, perverse, insightful, an example of equanimity without hope. Nina and Irene is a survivor story without the tears. In fact, it's the absence of tears that gives it such extraordinary poignancy. I just loved it."
— Executive Producer, Errol Morris
You’ll Be Happier
The world’s most dangerous cosmetic surgery is the Brazilian butt-lift—Daniel Lombroso’s short film follows a patient as she goes under the knife.
Role: Producer
Her Majesty’s Queue
Matt Stuart’s observational film “Her Majesty’s Queue” follows the line of mourners that wound through London in the days leading up to Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.
Role: Editor
Friends Who Remember
A film about family and piecing together the past upon discovering an extensive archive, consisting of postcards dating back to 1906, 18th-century tintype photos, and many unfamiliar faces.
Roles: Cinematographer, Editor, Animator, Producer, Writer, Narrator
Birthday Blues
A film unpacking the emotional shift that comes along with age, growth, and, more specifically - birthdays.
Roles: Editor, Producer, Animator, Writer, Narrator