BY THE ROOTS is an intrepid and necessary work: Queer cinema rooted not in stereotype or market trend, but in lived complexity. Memory, survival, embodiment, and the difficult labor of becoming whole resonate throughout the film. Audiences that value intimate, fearless independent filmmaking: BY THE ROOTS shouldn’t be missed.
Emily Robinson — The Central Protagonist (Madison Young surrogate). Robinson plays the film’s primary point-of-view character, a young woman navigating identity, sexuality, and artistic self-definition. The role is widely understood as a fictionalized stand-in for Madison Young herself, tracking her…
Revised April 10, Friday, 2026 An amazing short film that will make many in an audience feel like they were guests of an intimate full length film. So damn good that I can’t help but imagine, perhaps, that Director Lee…
## *A FRIEND OF DOROTHY* (2025) **Written & Directed by Lee Knight | Short Film | 21 minutes** The Story *A quietly beautiful short film about an unlikely friendship between Dorothy (Dame Miriam Margolyes), a sharp, witty, and increasingly frail…
Synopsis Desperate to maintain their lifestyles as their youth, & options, fade, two aging sugar babies dive headfirst into the bizarre underworld of the “desire economy.” When a provocative new app called Daddies Boi promises fast cash and fresh connections,…
Louie Rinaldi (they/them) – ExecutiveProducer,CoCreator: Yeah, thank you. You know what? I mean, I get that. I’ve often, growing up, was jealous of a painter or some kind of artistry like that where you can go away to a cabin…
WALTZ FOR THREE has screened at numerous festivals, including St. Louis International Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, and Dances With Films 2025, and has been recognized in multiple Oscar-qualifying competitions. WALTZ FOR THREE filmmakers at the time of this the WORD Q&A were planning on overseas screenings.
Words escape description by this film reviewer. This film is unlike many in recent memory. – Review by Gregg W. Morris
BIGHT, directed by Mariara Walsh, explores themes of power, control, and the fragility of trust through character-driven storytelling on levels that few filmmakers dare to go. – Review by Gregg W. Morris
