Special Screening: I Was Born This Way by Sam Pollard and Daniel Junge

I Was Born this Way by Sam Pollard and Daniel Junge 

(USA, 2025, 100 min)

When Archbishop Carl Bean sang the 1977 disco hit and gay anthem “I Was Born This Way,” it was just the start of his mission to create positive change in the world. He went on to found the Minority AIDS Project and the world’s first LGBTQ+ church for people of color.

Daniel Junge is an Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, whose films include Saving Face, Being Eve, They Killed Sister Dorothy, and A Lego Brickumentary.

Sam Pollard is an accomplished feature film and television editor, and documentary producer/director.  Pollard has edited several Spike Lee films:  Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers, and Bamboozled. He has also produced and directed Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes, MLK/FBI, Two Trains Running, and co-produced Four Little Girls and When the Levees Broke.