When people ask what Devotive does, I usually just say we make documentaries. The longer answer is that we spend months, sometimes years, sitting with people whose stories would otherwise go untold, and we try to get those stories right.
Over the past decade that has meant films about civil rights and Indigenous sovereignty, portraits of teachers, and stories about the ground we all stand on. Sometimes literally, like the forests we've been planting. None of these films happened because a network ordered them. They happened because somebody decided they should exist.
Documentary is slow work. You sit, you listen, and eventually the real story shows up.
What you'll find here
Field Notes is where we write between films. Dispatches from shoots, notes on the craft, and the stories that never make the final cut. If that sounds like your kind of thing, stick around.
And if the work means something to you, you can now support it directly. Even a dollar helps.