Nacy Kates is producing and directing An Everyday Riot, a documentary portrait of LGBTQ activist Urvashi Vaid. Nancy created the HBO documentary Regarding Susan Sontag, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2014, where it received a Special Jury Mention, and it has since screened at over 130 film festivals in 35 countries. She also produced and directed Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and on the PBS series “POV” in 2003, winning more than 25 awards worldwide. Nancy received the 1995 Student Academy Award-Oscar^® for her M.A. thesis, Their Own Vietnam. Her work has been shown at MoMA in New York City, and throughout the world. She has studied screenwriting through the Stowe Story Labs, the Athena Women’s Film Festival Writers Lab, the Cine Qua Non Lab, and participated in The Writers Lab retreat. Nancy received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship from Athena. In 2014, she was named to the OUT 100 list.

 Nancy was a participant in Cine Qua Non Lab’s 2021 Script Revision Lab with Bound by Ice.

Bound by Ice — Chicago, 1961: A secretive lesbian ice scientist takes a job at an Army-funded research lab, forcing her deeper into the closet. When she uncovers a dangerous military plan that threatens the Arctic, she risks her life, lover and job to reveal it. Inspired by a true story.