ABOUT THE FILM
Featuring Rev. Gil Caldwell, a black, straight preacher and Civil Rights Movement foot soldier, and Marilyn Bennett, a white, lesbian author and activist who form an unusual bond as they seek to find the intersection between the Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ Equality movements. They start out exploring the similarities, differences, and conflicts between the two movements and find themselves in the midst of today’s struggles—hate crimes, anti-blackness, police brutality, anti-LGBTQ religious hostility, queer youth homelessness, and white supremacy.
Video: Teaser of “From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet?”
CAST AND CREW
Darnell L. Moore, Author of “No Ashes in the Fire”; Director of Inclusion for Content and Marketing, Netflix; host of Being Seen podcast
Rev. Dr. Brad R. Braxton, Founding Senior Pastor, The Open Church of Maryland; Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, St. Luke’s School
Rev. Fred Davie, Executive Vice President, Union Theological Seminary of New York City
Joyce O'Neil, Citizen of Selma
Sarah Schulman, activist, writer
Rev. Dr. Tommie Lee Watkins, The Watkins Group and first openly black gay man to be ordained in the Alabama Diocese of the Episcopal Church
Cara Page, Founder, Changing Frequencies; Activist-in-Residence, Barnard Research Center for Women
Lee Jimenez, anti-police brutality activist
C.D. Kirven, Dallas activist, writer, and artist
Tiph Browne, Nerdscarf
Tree, Bartender, Stonewall Inn
Robert A. Woodworth, Director of Capital Projects, LGBT Community Center, New York City
George Bellinger, Jr., Consultant
Cathy Renna, Managing Partner, Target Cue
Rev. Peter Johnson, Director, Peter Johnson Institute for Non-Violence
THE CREATORS
Marilyn Bennett
DIRECTOR AND CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Author, activist, and non-profit consultant with a long career in social justice working with LGBTQ equality. She was Director of Development, Alumni Relations and Media Relations at SMU Perkins School of Theology (Dallas) and later Executive Director of Reconciling Ministries Network (Chicago). She has a Master of Divinity from Perkins and is the co-author of We Were Baptized Too: Claiming God’s Grace for Lesbians and Gays, foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. She produces video biographies for clients nationwide.
Gilbert Caldwell, 1933 - 2020
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Gil was a retired United Methodist minister and a lifelong activist in the Civil Rights Movement from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer to the 1968 Poor People's March. Gil was the author of numerous books and blogs on social justice, including his collection, Something Within. A collection of his writings, Faith at the Intersections, can be found here. Gil served several historic Black churches in the Northeast, including Union Methodist in Boston and St. Mark’s in Harlem. He also served as Associated General Secretary to the General Commission on Religion and Race in Washington, D.C., and as Executive Director of the Ministerial Interfaith Association of Harlem. Gil helped found several significant organizations on the forefront of erasing bigotry within the church, including the Black Methodists for Church Renewal, the National Conference of Black Churchmen, and United Methodists of Color for a Fully Inclusive Church, which works toward equality in ordaining Methodist ministers who are gay or lesbian. He served as a national board member of PFLAG, and was a co-founder of Truth in Progress.
Read some of Rev. Caldwell's writings on the Truth in Progress blog archive: Truth in Progress
Lynn-Wood Fields
EDITOR
Award winning Filmmaker, Producer, Lynn-Wood graduated with her MFA in digital filmmaking from the University of Montana. Her work has since gone on to screen at over 100 film festivals and venues globally. She is the marketing producer at Montana Studios and helped write the Montana MEDIA Act (Film Incentive) for the state of Montana. She is the Executive Producer of “Perma Red” feature which is slated to shoot in Spring 2021.
Greg Hawthorne
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Ky Dickens
PRODUCER