Markie Hancock

A documentary about a very shy feral cat adopted by people at the public tennis courts in NYC's Riverside Park and how she came to trust a very few of them.

Born and raised in an Evangelical Christian family, director Markie Hancock struggled through her childhood to find the line between her family and her religion, between her duties to God and Jesus and her responsibilities to her parents and herself. Fervent in her beliefs, she thought she would pursue a religious calling until the true nature of her sexuality and her need to express her own doubts brought her into a final confrontation with her upbringing. This is the story of that confrontation and what was won and what was lost.

Bloodlines of the Slave Trade examines the lives of two people whose only connection is a genetic link to John Armfield, one of the most notorious slave traders of the 1830s. Rodney Williams, who is Black, and Susanna Grannis, who is white, each trace their ancestry back to their distant ancestor, detailing the diverging paths their lineages took. While their relationship to this past is fundamentally different, and they never meet in the film, they both share in the telling of the horrific domestic slave trade and the ongoing reverberations of slavery.

Crazy cat lady or world-class musician? You decide. Dorian Rence smashes our notions of what matters and who counts in "Feral Love." Dorian was the seventh woman to join the New York Philharmonic. In her 40-year career she has performed with all the greats: Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, Yo Yo Ma to name a few. And she cares for a feral cat colony in the tunnels of New York City.

An intergenerational queer story and cat rescue told by the 2 young volunteers who visited Eddie during the final years of his life. Harmon 'Eddie' McCraw, from Texarkana, TX came to New York City to make his way as a gay man. He lived in Brooklyn for most of his life. Tess and Andrew piece the story together after he dies unexpectedly on New Year's Eve, 2017. They tell a story of resilience and love despite the odds.

'Queers in the Kingdom: Let Your Light Shine' tells the story of LGBTQ survivors of Christian colleges while exploring the deep historical roots of evangelical Christianity in the U.S. Bible-based homophobia is alive and well on Christian college campuses where students fear not just being expelled, but going to hell if they are lesbian or gay. 'Queers in the Kingdom' follows an LGBTQ alumni & allies group from Wheaton College (Billy Graham's Alma mater) as they decide to make themselves visible on the very campus that would condemn them. Wheaton forms in response to a student suicide and decides to 'Let Their Light Shine' for current students and themselves!