Juan Devis
As the former Public Media Group of Southern California Chief Creative Officer, Juan Devis was responsible for the oversight of all production and editorial output from long-form episodes to short-form digital series. Devis joined the organization as a freelance producer with the foresight of expanding programming onto the emerging digital web platform. Devis has won numerous awards for his film, TV, and interactive work including Emmys, Webbys, National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, and more.
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Cleaning up the L.A. River with Lewis MacAdams and FoLAR.
Departures: Los Angeles River is up. How did it start? And what did we learn?
Councilman Ed Reyes puts on his boots and heads to the river for a portrait and an interview.
The kids got their hands and feet literally dirty at the L.A. River, but now they needed to master multimedia story-telling.
The kids working on the next Departures are learning the L.A. River is a place where graffiti speaks, and birds mingle between the moss and storm drains.
We needed partners like FoLAR, Adobe and the Los Angeles Leadership Academy to produce Departures.
New media projects can not only spotlight a neighborhood, but help a diverse community better understand itself.
A few years ago we began a small project here at KCET New Media. Without much in the way of resources, and with the help of friends and partners, we launched Web Stories.