Deanna Del Ciello

Senior Producer SideXSide Studios

Families ripped apart by Georgetown University's sale of enslaved people are finding each other again six generations later with the help of DNA databases.

Finding Us

TransMilitary follows the Emmy-nominated short film Transgender, at War and in Love. Around 15,500 transgender people serve in the U.S. military notably the largest transgender employer in the U.S., where they must conceal their gender identity because military policies ban their service. TransMilitary chronicles the lives of four individuals Senior Airman Logan Ireland, Corporal Laila Villanueva, Captain Jennifer Peace & First Lieutenant El Cook defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own. They put their careers and their families’ livelihoods on the line by coming out as transgender to top brass officials in the Pentagon in hopes of attaining the equal right to serve. The ban was lifted in 2016, but with President Trump now trying to reinstate it, their futures hang in the balance.

TransMilitary

This short documentary shares the challenges of a transgender military couple, who are banned from serving openly.


Transgender, at War and in love

After the US withdrew from Afghanistan, more than 100,000 people fled the country. Tens of thousands of Afghans came to the US within a matter of days, overwhelming traditional infrastructure meant to resettle refugees.

HIAS wanted to showcase the herculean effort everyday Americans were making to welcome Afghan refugees. This is the story of one Jewish community in Tulsa, Oklahoma that joined the HIAS Resettlement Network. Congregation B’nai Emunah, founded more than 100 years ago by refugees from Latvia, is the first synagogue to join the HIAS Resettlement Network in more than two decades.

HIAS "Welcome Home"

SideXSide Studios was honored to produce eight films and two audio exhibits in collaboration with RAA Media for the newly expanded Holocaust Museum Houston. In keeping with its mission to educate the public about the dangers of prejudice and hatred in society, the museum refreshed its Holocaust Gallery and opened its new Human Rights Gallery in June 2019. These exhibits are intended to ground visitors in the history of the Holocaust and engage people in difficult questions around how we think of and protect human rights.

Deanna Del Ciello

Senior Producer SideXSide Studios

TransMilitary

Transgender, at War and in love

HIAS "Welcome Home"

Holocaust Museum Houston Installation Films

Finding Us