About the film

At Triangle Square, a haven for LGBTQ retirees in Hollywood, California, the idea of a “senior” prom has taken on a new meaning. Senior Prom joins the celebration of an LGBTQ generation that spent a lifetime fighting for the right to live and love openly, and via rich personal archives retraces lives lived in resistance that helped change the course of civil rights.

About the Filmmakers

Director/producer Luisa Conlon is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and journalist based in Los Angeles. Her most recent film We Became Fragments (New York Times Op-Docs) was nominated for a 2019 International Documentary Association Award and selected as a finalist for the Livingston Awards. Luisa’s work has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and the Berkeley Film Foundation. As a director of photography, Luisa collaborates frequently with outlets including Netflix, the New York Times, The Atlantic, NBC, and VICE Media where Luisa is the series DP for The Scarlett Letter and their Latinx series. Their team’s coverage on HIV and drag activism in the Rio Grande Valley was nominated for a 2019 GLAAD Media Award. She received her BFA in Film & TV from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her Masters in Journalism from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism where she studied under Orlando Bagwell and Jon Else.

Producer Jessica Chermayeff is the executive producer of Lifetime’s Her America: 50 Women, 50 States, a groundbreaking digital road trip exploring what women across the U.S. stand for today. She directed the documentary film Towards the North, following Honduran refugees to the U.S. Border, as part of Humanity on the Move - a campaign she produced about the global refugee crisis which received an IDA nomination and aired on PBS. She also produced the SXSW-winning, Emmy-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted documentary Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace which aired on PBS. Her other producing and directing work includes nonfiction television for CNN, New York Times and PBS covering topics including the Mongol Nation bikers, child literacy in Vietnam and sex trafficking in America. She was the field producer for the PBS mini-series Half the Sky: Turning Opportunity into Oppression for Women Worldwide, which followed the reporting of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. She is a founder and partner of Cousins Company based in Brooklyn and a board member of the New York Studio School.

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