BOOKS & WRITING
Kelly Frankenberg is a writer, poet, and storyteller who explores themes of identity, unity, nature and love.
Memoir, Non-fiction
Diary of a Gay, Pregnant Bride
An artist's memoir written over the span of a decade comes together during the height of the debate and legalization of gay marriage.
As gay marriage becomes legal, the greatest joys in an artist’s life weave through the hardest moments as she plans a second wedding while her mother is dying and she herself becomes pregnant.
Non-fiction
The Road Ahead: Inspirational Stories of Open Hearts and Minds
The Road Ahead: Inspirational Stories of Open Hearts and Minds (2017) by Jane Seymour is a non-fiction book featuring true stories of individuals overcoming severe life challenges, such as medical crises and loss. It focuses on navigating adversity through acceptance, forgiveness, and helping others, based on her "Open Hearts" philosophy.
Film
ARK: The trailer
LINH is a minority FBI agent in Brooklyn. Lesbian and Vietnamese. She has had to work her way up in a white, male-dominated organization. Intuitive, she has gained respect and is lead on the case with her partner, SPINELLI, of connecting all the missing persons to find a serial killer, or rather collector, who calls himself NOAH. Noah is playing God, deciding who should survive during this climate change, that some feel is apocalyptic, taking a man and a woman of each ethnicity, with the help of his cult followers whom he calls agents, for delusional ideas of survival and repopulation.
Film
ARK: The making of
The vision was to create a believable, emotional, but suspenseful environmental thriller that brings an unlikely minority female character to heroic status in the relevant times of social justice, human rights, LGBTQ+ issues, environmental changes, which has the audience rooting for immigrants and the heroine.
Key Themes
Survival, man vs. nature, justice, society, LGBTQ issues
Tone & Genre
Suspenseful action
