Cat Town, USA
In this feel-good doc expanded from a SIFF 2019 short, filmmaker Jonathan Napolitano snuggles up with Bruce and Terry Jenkins, an aging Floridian couple who’ve decided to spend their last days running a retirement home for senior and aging cats.
Director Jonathan Napolitano and producer James Gannon scheduled to attend.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
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Monday, May 26 - Sunday, June 1, 2025
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Meet Terry and Bruce Jenkins, stewards of Cats Cradle Foundation, a living community and hospice for senior cats that, for one reason or another, have no place left to go but still have a lot of love, if not life, left in them. The couple recounts how a chance meeting at their local veterinarian’s office led them to adopt a senior cat who would otherwise have been euthanized. However, in adopting the cat, they realized countless other senior pets face a similar plight, due to the unexpected death or infirmity of their previous owner. Blessed with a 1920s farmhouse, the couple remodeled the Frontier Land playground built for their children into an expansive domestic habitat, a place where the cats could be free yet also feel secure and protected. And yet challenges remain: food and medical expenses, a surplus of applicants who, sadly, cannot all be accommodated, and, of course, those inevitable, solemn moments when a resident crosses the rainbow bridge. Based upon and expanded from his short documentary Cats Cradle (SIFF 2018), director Jonathan Napolitano documents the intertwined lives of those who call Cats Cradle home, both human and feline, depicting their deep emotional bonds with an abiding compassion.
- Director: Jonathan Napolitano
- Principal Cast: Bruce Jenkins, Terry Jenkins
- Premiere Status: World
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 73 min.
- Producer: James P. Gannon, Stéphane Laporte, Jonathan Napolitano
- Cinematographers: James P. Gannon
- Editors: Jonathan Napolitano
- Music: Stéphane Laporte
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: Debut Feature Film
- Language: English
- Format: DCP