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An Award-Winning Production Company

Stories told in light,
preserved in gold.

HoneyPeach Productions is the cinematic home of producer/director Millena Gay — crafting prestige documentary, drama, and comedy with collaborators including Danny Glover, Obba Babatundé, and Howard Hewett.

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Ruby's Heart — official posterRuby's Heart — Diversity in Cannes 2026 Official Selection
Short Film · A Story of Extraordinary Love

Ruby's Heart

Benjamin, after losing his wife of fifty years, post her transition, finds himself a grieving patriarch. His grandson, in an effort to help him cope with his grief, suggests he try going on a dating app — unleashing a series of comedic mishaps and emotional spirals that provide him a journey of self-realization.

Co-directed by Obba Babatundé and Millena Gay · Starring Emmy winners Obba Babatundé and Dawnn Lewis with Starletta DuPois and Angela Gibbs · Introducing Cory Havis · Screenplay by Obba Babatundé · An O&M Arts Entertainment and HoneyPeach Productions presentation.

For Immediate Release · Los Angeles, May 2026

Ruby's Heart has been named an official selection of the 2026 Diversity in Cannes Virtual Short Film Showcase, presented by Yolonda Brinkley with support from Viola Davis and Julius Tennon's JuVee Productions, Screen Australia, and the British Film Institute's inclusion team — connecting the film to a global audience during the Cannes Film Festival.

"Celebrating 17 years of independently advancing inclusion at the Cannes Film Festival, I am proud to announce Ruby's Heart as an official selection." — Yolonda Brinkley, Founder, Diversity in Cannes

Featured Films

The slate. Cinematic, considered, and ready for screen.

From completed documentaries to drama in development — each project carries a point of view and a producer's pedigree.

Golden Hearted — official poster
Feature Documentary · Completed

Golden Hearted

Directed by Millena Gay. Narrated by Academy Award winner Danny Glover — the life and legacy of former Congresswoman Diane E. Watson.

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Clarissa's Gift
HPP · 01Festival Selection · Cannes Marché du Film
Faith-Based Short Film

Clarissa's Gift

An award-winning film about bullying from the adult perspective — how the words and actions of grownups manifest in children.

Directed by Obba Babatundé · Produced by Millena Gay · Starring Nay Nay Kirby, Aloma Wright, Vincent Irizarry

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Bitter Inheritance
HPP · 02In Development
Feature Film

Bitter Inheritance

A dramatic thriller: Velma, a ball-busting executive at the helm of a multi-million dollar ad agency, is hunted by adversarial forces — only to suspect her own mentee may be the driving force behind her demise.

Based on the novel by Dr. Mildred Dumas · Screenplay by Dr. Mildred Dumas & Angela Gibbs

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Festival Recognition

Honored, selected, screened.

From the Pan African Film Festival to Cannes Marché du Film — our work has traveled the international circuit.

Pan African Film Festival
Official Selection 2020
Cannes Marché du Film
New World Cinemas
Diversity in Cannes
Official Selection 2026 · Ruby's Heart
Faith-Based Cinema
Award Winner
Millena Gay, founder of HoneyPeach Productions
About Millena Gay

A producer's discipline.
A director's vision.

Millena Gay is an award-winning producer, director and actress whose dynamic career spans nearly three decades. A native of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, she graduated from the University of Virginia's pre-law program — but a title-winning performance as Sojourner Truth during the Ms. Black World Pageant shifted her trajectory toward the arts.

A lucrative television career began on One Life to Live, followed by All My Children, The Guiding Light, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless. She graduated with honors from UCLA Extension's Producing & Entertainment Studies Program and recently completed her UCLA Directing Certification for Film and Television — with honors.

Millena just finished co-directing with Obba Babatundé the short film Ruby's Heart. Her body of work includes the award-winning feature documentary Golden Hearted, the 40-minute narrative short Something About Mother (starring Jayne Kennedy, Dawnn Lewis, and Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs), and the short documentary Fun The Emachee Way. She is currently producing the breast-cancer documentary Why Us? The Search for Hope in Eleuthera, Bahamas, and in pre-production on the 1950s Las Vegas period piece Black Jack at the Moulin Rouge.

"Excellence is not an option — it is an expectation and a way of life."

Films
12+
Festivals
Pan African · Cannes · DIC
Collaborators
Glover · Babatundé · Lewis
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Cinematic settlement and mediation documentaries, day-in-the-life films, and mediation-ready visual storytelling for attorneys, plaintiffs, and law firms. We bring the same prestige eye that shapes our features to evidence that must move a jury — and a defendant.

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Testimonials

From the people who've sat at our table.

"Millena brings a director's eye and a producer's discipline to every frame. Her instincts for story and human truth are unmatched."
Obba Babatundé
Emmy & Tony-nominated actor, director, collaborator
"Golden Hearted is more than a documentary — it is the preservation of an American legacy, rendered with reverence and cinematic grace."
Festival Jury
Independent Documentary Selection
"HoneyPeach is the kind of partner you want when the story matters. They show up prepared, principled, and producing."
Production Partner
Network Development
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