Children of God follows Jonny and Lena who are on personal journeys to resolve their internal and external conflicts.

Jonny is a young depressed white Bahamian artist who faces losing his scholarship at a local University if he does not live up to the potential his professors believe he has. Faced with this challenge, after severe beatings from homophobic bullies, and rejection from his alcoholic father, Jonny escapes from his gritty inner-city life in Nassau to the under-populated and dramatic Bahamian island of Eleuthera.

Lena Mackey is an extremely conservative forty year old anti-gay activist who upon finding out that her husband is not who he represents himself to be, believes that the only way to fix problems in her life is to limit the rights of homosexuals. She heads Eleuthera for the purpose of galvanizing the community to oppose gay rights.

When Jonny arrives, he meets a curious young man by the name of Romeo. Together these two embark on a series of physical adventures that not only inspire Jonny to paint but gives him a new zest for life. Lena is taken in by a gregarious local pastor who challenges her beliefs and slowly opens her mind to new experiences. However, things are shaken up when Romeo’s family shows up and puts an end to Jonny’s romantic dreams and Lena’s husband decides to fix the problems in their marriage. After opening up about himself, Jonny retreats into his former closed self. He must choose between finally giving up on love, career and his happiness or moving forward fearless and courageously. Lena is left with the decision of choosing between what her head tells her to do or following what is in her heart.

Children of God takes the audience along Jonny and Lena’s ride that reveals life’s humor and bravery.

My postings have been very light to say the least lately, b/c I’ve been crazy in development for the doc project. BUT! That’s not the case today. I’m pleased to announce that Children of God will be the opening night film for the Bahamas International Film Festival, Dec. 10-17!

BIFF is a fantastic regional festival. I had the opportunity to attend last Dec, and one of my favorite features was the panels…which were held outdoors, steps from the ocean. Just lovely! So, I hope you join me as we screen this powerful film to the home audience! Should be an amazing experience.

We look forward to many more festival announcements in the next year.

Seeds of Love: A Reproductive Documentary examines the emotionally and financially taxing decision for men and women to seek fertility treatment to start a family after 30 years old.

While there are numerous reasons why men and women are waiting until their 30s or 40s to start a family, a growing number of them are finding it difficult conceiving. The proportion of the female population that is infertile increases with age. Fertility drops dramatically around the age of 35. Fecundity, or the ability to conceive, naturally decreases over time as part of the normal aging process.

About one third of couples in which the woman is over 35 have fertility problems. Even though fertility is less reliable for women of older ages, approximately 20% of women in the United States have their first child at or after age 35. Age-related fertility decline is not only a female factor. It has been discovered that while only 8 percent of men younger than 25 fail to impregnate their partner after a year of trying, that number grows to 15 percent after age 35.

Recently, there has been a paradigm shift in reproductive medicine, because more women and men are waiting to start families. As more people are seeking advanced reproductive techniques, such as Intrauterine insemination, In vitro fertilization or Zygote intrafallopian transfer, to assist in achieving pregnancy, the ceiling of reproduction has been lifted slightly such that almost any healthy woman even after 30 years old can successfully mother a child. The risks are high and take a toll mentally and physically.

Seeds of Love will intertwine personal video journals of men and women undertaking advanced reproduction with archival footage and interviews of couples, single women, family, friends, medical professionals, and psychiatrists.