Cynthia Wade – MRQE

Freeheld

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner – Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no; they are not husband and wife. After spending a lifetime fighting for justice for other people, Laurel – a veteran New Jersey detective – launches a final battle for justice. Knuckle-biting, dramatic Freeheld chronicles a dying policewoman’s bitter fight to provide for the love of her life.

Born Sweet

Sun, 31 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Arsenic-laced water has poisoned a 15 year old boy from a small, rural village in Cambodia.

Shelter Dogs

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

This feature length documentary takes the viewer into the gray zone of the national animal welfare system where quality-of-life issues take center stage.

Grist for the Mill

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Documentary filmmaker Cynthia Wade is trying to get her divorced parents to talk to each other, but that is the last thing they want to do. Nothing ever seems to work out the way Wade hopes it will. At least she has a job (calling out Bingo numbers), a loving family (although her father’s new wife is just a few years older than Wade), and a social life (if answering an emergency hotline on a Saturday night counts). So what if her sister gets all of the dates and her father is finally getting the son he always wanted? Wade is armed with her camcorder, and the result is a honest and painfully humorous video diary that captures a changing American family in the 1990s. – From IMDB