Bio
Cagney Gentry is a teacher of film and filmmaking in the Department of Communication 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 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, has premiered at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival in California and will have streaming distribution on the indie film platform NoBudge in November 2023.
Education
Wake Forest University
University of North Carolina – Greensboro- M.F.A.