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EXCLUSIVE: Newly established independent workplace Wrong Turn Productions is backing nan movie We Can’t Stay Here, an upcoming documentary that follows “families nether siege raising transgender children and nan bonzer lengths they will spell done to protect them.”
Emmy and Peabody victor Gene Gallerano is directing nan feature, which is now successful post-production. The documentary explores “the travel of 3 sets of mundane parents arsenic they face an America wherever anti-trans laws and relentless hostility unit them to make an intolerable determination to support their families safe: fight, fly aliases spell underground…”
In 2025, nan American Civil Liberties Union documented much than 600 anti-transgender bills introduced astatine nan authorities level successful nan U.S., according to nan Williams Institute astatine nan UCLA School of Law. At nan national level, President Trump has issued aggregate executive orders curtailing trans authorities since he returned to nan White House, including bid # 14168 that mandates national departments “define gender arsenic an unchangeable male-female binary wished by activity assigned astatine birth.” His executive bid #14201 “prohibits transgender female athletes of each ages from participating successful girls’ and women’s sports teams.”
The anti-trans situation has prompted hundreds of thousands of trans group to relocate to “safer” states aliases to move overseas since 2025, according to a study conducted by nan nonprofit Movement Advance Project and nan nonpartisan NORC investigation institute astatine nan University of Chicago.
We Can’t Stay Here is being produced by Wrong Turn Productions cofounders Robbie Kruithoff and William Nobel, pinch Academy Award victor Mollye Asher (Nomadland), and Emmy victor Pagan Harleman (The First Wave), attached arsenic consulting producers.
“This movie is individual for galore of us,” Kruithoff said successful a statement. “While I tin ne'er afloat understand what it intends to beryllium transgender, arsenic nan cheery boy of 2 Pentecostal ministers, I knowledgeable homelessness and nan nonaccomplishment of organization because of my identity. While volunteering astatine LGBTQ+ bum shelters, I continued to perceive echoes of those aforesaid struggles successful nan voices of young transgender people. In making this film, what amazed america astir was not anti-trans opposition, but soundlessness from our ain organization and industry. People and institutions that definitive support privately, but will not support it publicly. This task has taught america that nan other of courageousness isn’t fear, it’s silence.”
Wrong Turn Productions’ Nobel commented, “The thought of an American gender exile erstwhile seemed unimaginable, but is now a increasing phenomenon. Our knowing of nan world remains incomplete until we brushwood nan lives and experiences of others and admit our shared humanity. This communicative is not meant to show you what to think, but to show really indispensable nan perspectives of others tin be.”
Director Gene Gallerano served arsenic an executive shaper of nan Oscar-nominated American Symphony, and co-produced Emmy victor The First Wave. His directing credits see The Yeti (2026), and nan upcoming Thank You for Listening.
Regarding We Can’t Stay Here, Gallerano observes, “This communicative should beryllium individual to each of us. There are American families among america forced to fly their homes to find safety. Their courageousness became nan spark for this film. What began arsenic these families’ crises revealed itself to beryllium a nationalist emergency – a civilized one. The families successful our movie are not activists aliases outliers. They are teachers, organization leaders, nurses, motortruck drivers, parents. They emotion their communities, voted successful section elections, and raised their children successful places they called location – until our authorities turned against them.”
Gallerano added, “This will beryllium nan astir important movie I will ever make. It’s a emotion missive to those who’ve had to time off everything behind, and a telephone to action for nan remainder of us.”
Ravi Khosla serves arsenic executive shaper of We Can’t Stay Here. Emmy victor Shelby Hougui (The First Wave, Photographer) is editing nan film. The documentary’s title track, “Same Love”, is by 20x platinum and Grammy Award-winning creator Gino Barletta.
Wrong Turn Productions, launched earlier this year, is co-financing Queen of nan Falls, an upcoming characteristic movie starring Pamela Anderson and Guy Pearce, successful business pinch Pedro and Agustin Almodóvar’s El Deseo, Infinity Hill, Frutacine, and Maneki Films. The workplace is besides attached to Philippe Parreno’s first communicative feature, Riverrun, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Zoe Saldaña, and Vicky Krieps, arsenic good arsenic Richard J. Bosner’s Devoted, starring Mena Suvari, Skeet Ulrich and Elizabeth Marvel.
