Set in 2009, The Making of Us follows three adults who were conceived anonymously via sperm donation in the UK and find each other through a donor sibling registry. Lydia, a wealthy self-made millionaire living alone in London who carries emotional scars from a traumatic childhood; Dean, a confused 21-year-old single father struggling after his […]
Tech millionaire Miles Cookson is diagnosed with a fatal, hereditary condition and realizes that the nine children he fathered as a sperm donor two decades earlier may have inherited it. Determined to warn them and include them in his estate, Miles sets out to find them. He connects first with Chloe, an aspiring documentary filmmaker
Paige Robson is a geneticist, professionally obsessed with the science of inheritance and, it turns out, personally entangled in it too. She conceived her 8-year-old son Miles using an anonymous sperm donor in the late 2000s. Now she’s navigating a new relationship, her estranged father who has reappeared, and a son whose questions about his
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Sister! is a 13-minute queer comedy short film that had its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. James (Julia Wendt), a transfemme diva, has been ignoring a persistent stranger named Tessa (Tessa Belle) who claims they are donor-conceived half-sisters through a shared sperm donor. When Tessa shows up at James’s door anyway, what
He’s Not Your Father And Other Things I Learned During The Pandemic originally exhibited in 2022 at The Witching Post. This painting series documents Whitney Lofrano’s experience learning at 42 that she was donor-conceived, a secret her mother had kept since her 1977 conception via sperm donation. In the show deck, each work is paired
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Skye Ellison is 38, Black, queer, and has spent her adult life avoiding anything that might require her to stay in one place. She runs a successful travel company, lives out of a suitcase, and returns to her hometown of West Philly only occasionally to decompress before heading back out. When she was 26 and
Twenty-three-year-old August moves to New York City to finish college, cynical and emotionally guarded. She moves into a Flatbush apartment with an eccentric found family: Niko (a trans psychic with genuinely accurate powers), his artist girlfriend Myla, and Wes (a tattoo artist). August works at a 24-hour pancake diner and plans to keep her life
