Producer
At an LGBTQ retirement home, the annual “senior” prom takes on a whole new meaning – a celebration of the lives and legacies of resistance of the eldest queer generation.
Director
At an LGBTQ retirement home, the annual “senior” prom takes on a whole new meaning – a celebration of the lives and legacies of resistance of the eldest queer generation.
Director of Photography
Using intimate footage recorded by passengers and crew, The Last Cruise is a first-person account of the nightmare that transpired aboard the ill-fated Diamond Princess cruise ship, which set sail from Japan on the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Director
After losing his mother and four siblings in a bombing that left him injured, Syrian teenager Ibraheem Sarhan makes a new life for himself in Winnipeg, Canada despite the heartbreak of leaving his home behind. Narrated through Ibraheem's diary entries, we follow Ibraheem through his first week of high school in Winnipeg. It's a story about loss, resilience, and one young man's identity as he adapts to a new country while his home is at war.
Producer
It's a hot summer day in June, 1969. Marsha throws herself a birthday party and dreams of performing at a club in town, but no one shows up. Sylvia, Marsha’s best friend, distraught from an unsuccessful introduction between her lover and her family, gets so stoned she forgets about the party. Marsha, Sylvia, and friends eventually meet at the Stonewall Inn to celebrate Marsha's birth. When the police arrive to raid the bar, Marsha and Sylvia are among the first to fight back.
Producer
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film and in reality—the streets of Brooklyn are all Primo has ever known. While John questions whether or not to enter into this life, Primo must decide whether to leave it all behind as he vows to become a better husband and father. Set during those New York summer weeks where the stifling heat seems to encase everything, Five Star plunges into gang culture with searing intensity. Director Keith Miller observes the lives of these two men with a quiet yet pointed distance, carefully eschewing worn clichés through its unflinching focus. Distinctions between fiction and real life remain intentionally ambiguous, allowing the story of these two men to resonate beyond the streets, as they face the question of what it means to be a man.
Young Charlotte Anne 'Channe' Willis, Age 7
С раннего детства Шанни Уиллис окружали достойные мужчины. Может, ей просто повезло, и поэтому до определенного момента контакты с представителями противоположного пола не вызывали у нее опасений. Взросление Шанни совпало с возвращением их семьи из Европы в Штаты, где раскованность и открытость в отношениях с юношами приводит ее в первый жизненный тупик. Оказалось, что пришло время обдуманных поступков, что не все могут сравниться с ее отцом, любовь к которому она понесет через всю жизнь
