Queen of the Deuce

The unbelievable true story of Chelly Wilson, who escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s. Chelly was a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street.

• Valerie KontakosDirector
• Christos AsteriouWriter
• Valerie KontakosWriter
• Despina PavlakiWriter
• Ken MyhrOriginal Music Composer

• Chelly WilsonSelf (archive footage)