Wake Forest University
University of North Carolina – Greensboro- M.F.A.
Cagney Gentry is a teacher and a filmmaker. He has made a variety of short films, feature films, documentary and narrative that have played at juried festivals.
His most recent work includes Other Houses which won best director at FilmFest Knox 26 and was a selection at New Orleans Film Festival as well as earning him the Wake Forest Gladding Award for Creative Achievement in 2026. Fort Maria (2018), 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 ongoing work in the Boston Thurmond Documentary Film Project has resulted in three different film projects, all in progress, but that have been funded by a North Carolina Humanities Grant and the Cucalorus Filmed in NC Fund. His most recently completed film, a short film, Half Sisters premiered at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival in California and is streaming on the indie film platform NoBudge.