{"id":512534,"date":"2026-06-26T18:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/512534\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:29:12","slug":"gender-refugee-themed-doc-we-cant-stay-here-in-post-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/512534\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Refugee-Themed Doc ‘We Can’t Stay Here’ In Post-Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Newly established independent studio Wrong Turn Productions<\/a> is backing the film We Can\u2019t Stay Here, an upcoming documentary that follows \u201cfamilies under siege raising transgender children and the extraordinary lengths they will go through to protect them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEmmy and Peabody winner Gene Gallerano<\/a> and William Martin III are directing the feature, which is now in post-production. The documentary explores \u201cthe journey of three sets of everyday parents as they confront an America where anti-trans laws and relentless hostility force them to make an impossible decision to keep their families safe: fight, flee or go underground\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2025, the American Civil Liberties Union documented more than 600 anti-transgender bills introduced at the state level in the U.S., according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. At the federal level, President Trump has issued multiple executive orders curtailing trans rights since he returned to the White House, including order # 14168 that mandates federal departments \u201cdefine gender as an unchangeable male-female binary determined by sex assigned at birth.\u201d His executive order #14201 \u201cprohibits transgender female athletes of all ages from participating in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"President<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tPresident Donald Trump signs the \u201cNo Men in Women\u2019s Sports\u201d executive order in the East Room at the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tThe anti-trans environment has prompted hundreds of thousands of trans people to relocate to \u201csafer\u201d states or to move abroad since 2025, according to a survey conducted by the nonprofit Movement Advance Project and the nonpartisan NORC research institute at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe Can\u2019t Stay Here is being produced by Wrong Turn Productions cofounders Robbie Kruithoff<\/a> and William Nobel<\/a>, with Academy Award winner Mollye Asher (Nomadland), and Emmy winner Pagan Harleman (The First Wave), attached as consulting producers.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Robbie<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRobbie Kruithoff (left) and William Nobel, cofounders of Wrong Turn Productions<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Wrong Turn Productions<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis film is personal for many of us,\u201d Kruithoff said in a statement. \u201cWhile I can never fully understand what it means to be transgender, as the gay son of two Pentecostal ministers, I experienced homelessness and the loss of community because of my identity. While volunteering at LGBTQ+ homeless shelters, I continued to hear echoes of those same struggles in the voices of young transgender people. In making this film, what surprised us most was not anti-trans opposition, but silence from our own community and industry. People and institutions that express support privately, but will not support it publicly. This project has taught us that the opposite of courage isn\u2019t fear, it\u2019s silence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWrong Turn Productions\u2019 Nobel commented, \u201cThe idea of an American gender refugee once seemed unimaginable, but is now a growing phenomenon. Our understanding of the world remains incomplete until we encounter the lives and experiences of others and recognize our shared humanity. This story is not meant to tell you what to think, but to show how indispensable the perspectives of others can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tDirector Gene Gallerano<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBryan Bedder\/Getty Images for National Geographic<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector Gene Gallerano served as an executive producer of the Oscar-nominated American Symphony, and co-produced Emmy winner The First Wave. His directing credits include The Yeti (2026), and the upcoming Thank You for Listening.<\/p>\n

\n\tRegarding We Can\u2019t Stay Here, Gallerano observes, \u201cThis story should be personal to all of us. There are American families among us forced to flee their homes to find safety. Their courage became the spark for this film. What began as these families\u2019 crises revealed itself to be a national emergency \u2013 a moral one. The families in our film are not activists or outliers. They are teachers, community leaders, nurses, truck drivers, parents. They love their communities, voted in local elections, and raised their children in places they called home \u2013 until our government turned against them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGallerano added, \u201cThis will be the most important film I will ever make. It\u2019s a love letter to those who\u2019ve had to leave everything behind, and a call to action for the rest of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRavi Khosla serves as executive producer of We Can\u2019t Stay Here. Emmy winner Shelby Hougui (The First Wave, Photographer) is editing the film. The documentary\u2019s title track, \u201cSame Love\u201d, is by 20x platinum and Grammy Award-winning artist Gino Barletta. <\/p>\n

\n\tWrong Turn Productions, launched earlier this year, is co-financing Queen of the Falls, an upcoming feature film starring Pamela Anderson and Guy Pearce, in partnership with Pedro and Agustin Almod\u00f3var\u2019s El Deseo, Infinity Hill, Frutacine, and Maneki Films. The studio is also attached to Philippe Parreno\u2019s first narrative feature, Riverrun, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Zoe Salda\u00f1a, and Vicky Krieps, as well as Richard J. Bosner\u2019s Devoted, starring Mena Suvari, Skeet Ulrich and Elizabeth Marvel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Newly established independent studio Wrong Turn Productions is backing the film We Can\u2019t Stay Here, an upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,235049,85,46,397,235050,235051,235052,235053],"class_list":["post-512534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-gene-gallerano","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-robbie-kruithoff","tag-we-cant-stay-here","tag-william-nobel","tag-wrong-turn-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}