Other Houses

S. Cagney Gentry and Thomas Southerland · 2025 · 95 minutes

Immigrant Radka Winslow must choose between the American Dream or living a creative life back in Bulgaria. Other Houses tells the poetic and funny story of Radka’s life-changing summer of choices. 

Full program note coming soon.

Cagney Gentry is a teacher of filmmaking at Wake Forest. He has made a variety of short films, feature films, documentary and narrative, that have played at juried festivals around the country and won many awards. His most recent work includes Fort Maria, which won the Jury Prize and Best Cinematography award at the Ashland Independent Film Festival and the Best Director award from the BendFilm Festival in 2018. His most recently completed film, a short film, Half Sisters, has premiered at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival in California and is streaming on the indie film platform NoBudge.

Thomas Southerland is a filmmaker and educator from Lexington, Kentucky. His first narrative feature, Proud Citizen, won the Jury Prize at the New Orleans Film Festival in 2014 and eight other Jury and Audience awards at film festivals around the country. His second narrative feature, Fort Maria, won multiple prizes as well. His recent short documentary, Window Treatment, has screened at New Orleans, IFFBoston, RiverRun,the Florida Film Festival, Tallgrass, and Cucalorus. His documentary film, I’m the Girl – the story of a photograph, is streaming on Kanopy and was televised nationally via PBS.