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Limited Partnership

Decades before The Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8, one gay couple, a Filipino American and an Australian, fell in love and over the course of 40 years took on the U.S. government to fight for marriage and immigration equality.

Premiere Date

June 15, 2015

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Awards & Recognition

Winner

2014 International Documentary Association (IDA) - Humanitas Award

Thomas G. Miller

Producer/Director

Thomas G. Miller has worked on documentaries and in public television since 1994. He associate produced the Sundance award-winning film Licensed to Kill (POV, PBS), co-produced the feature documentary Code Black. and co-produced and edited both Fender Philosophers for PBS and Camp Out (Logo). He has edited the feature documentary films, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (Slamdance, Independent Lens, PBS), Home of the Brave (Sundance) and Sex(Ed) the Movie. Miller produced and directed the award-winning feature documentary, One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (Ovation), and the feature documentary Limited Partnership (Independent Lens). Other credits include producing television films for Discovery, and WNET’s series on disabilities, People in Motion. Miller has been on the board of the International Documentary Association since 2004 and is an Associate Professor of Cinema Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Writer’s Guild of America, West. He is also a pediatrician and has served as medical consultant for Sesame Street and other film and television series. Miller graduated with a BS degree in zoology from The University of Michigan, an MD from the Medical University of Ohio and an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Kirk Marcolina

Producer

Kirk has worked in television and documentary filmmaking for nearly 20 years. Most recently he produced and directed The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne, a multi-award-winning documentary about an 80-year-old jewel thief that premiered at Hot Docs in 2013. He also produced and directed the feature documentary, Camp Out, (Logo) which tells the story of the first Bible Camp for gay teenagers. Marcolina’s television work includes co-executive producing Boy Meets Boy (Bravo), Gay Weddings (Bravo), Switched (ABC Family), and That Yin Yang Thing (TLC). Marcolina also directed the Disney Channel documentary series Bug Juice, and has edited many reality-based and documentary series. Marcolina has taught Documentary Production at California State University, Long Beach and was a Trustee of the International Documentary Association. He received his MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Southern California, and his BA in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania.
Karen Hori

Co-Producer

Karen Hori s a production executive with Langley Productions, the company behind the long-running documentary series COPS, where her responsibilities include developing new programming as well as overseeing operations for the company at large. She has served as Supervising Producer and/or Executive in Charge of Production on several non-fiction series including Vegas Strip,Inside American Jail,Video Justice and Anatomy of Crime. Prior to joining Langley, Karen was a producer for syndicated news magazine shows Personalities and Entertainment Daily Journal, and production manager for the feature documentary Marilyn: Something’s Got to Give. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Documentary Association.