
POV
Wisdom Gone Wild
A new look at dementia and caregiving, observed over 15 years. A Japanese American mother and daughter evolve their troubled relationship through the process of caregiving.
For residents of the Triangle Square retirement home, “senior” prom takes on a whole new meaning—a celebration of the lives and legacies of a trailblazing LGBTQ generation.
Luisa Conlon is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and journalist based in Los Angeles. Her most recent film We Became Fragments (New York Times Op-Docs) was nominated for a 2019 International Documentary Association Award and selected as a finalist for the Livingston Awards. Luisa’s work has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, The… Show more
Jessica Chermayeff is the executive producer of Lifetime’s Her America: 50 Women, 50 States, a groundbreaking digital road trip exploring what women across the U.S. stand for today. She directed the documentary film Towards the North, following Honduran refugees to the U.S. Border, as part of Humanity on the Move - a campaign she produced about the global… Show more
Learn more about funding opportunities with ITVS.
For so many American high schoolers, prom is a rite of passage in all its high-expectation, love-filled, well-coiffed, abundantly photographed glory. But for LGBTQ generations that grew up in the decades before the Stonewall Riots, prom was emblematic of the exclusion and fear of living in a world they could not experience as their authentic selves.
At Triangle Square, a haven for LGBTQ retirees in Hollywood, California, the idea of a “senior” prom has taken on an entirely new meaning. Tapping into their teenage selves, these liberated seniors ready themselves for the hottest event on the Triangle Square social calendar. Reflecting back on who they were and how far they’ve come makes their prom night all the sweeter: Father Robert Clement, an openly gay clergyman and founder of the first LGBTQ church in New York recalls the birth of the gay rights movement; Andi Segal remembers the undergound lesbian bars of Los Angeles; and Nancy Valverde, a Chicana lesbian from East L.A., recounts her arrests (ten different times) for wearing pants—and her never-back-down nerve facing police intimidation.
Senior Prom joins the celebration of an LGBTQ generation that spent a lifetime fighting for the right to live and love openly, and via rich personal archives retraces lives lived in resistance that helped change the course of civil rights.
We’ll send you funding deadlines, events, and film news.
Connect with us now at itvs@itvs.org.