Luchina Fisher | USA | 72 min
Co-presented by The Biking Lawyer
EVENT: TRANSlate
Feature Film Screening: Inspired by the Emmy Award-winning short documentary of the same name (Netflix, 2023), THE DADS chronicles a community of fathers of trans and nonbinary children as they are forced to choose family over country as a powerful anti-trans agenda takes hold in the United States. Filmed over the course of a year spanning retreats in rural Maine and Minnesota, protests, family milestones, a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision, and the collapse of gender-affirming care for youth, THE DADS captures this national reckoning with remarkable intimacy through verité footage and interviews with the film’s main protagonists, as documented by Emmy Award-winning director and producer Luchina Fisher and executive producer Dwyane Wade. This is fatherhood as an act of radical love and resistance.
Post-Film: An intergenerational storytelling talk back about the places where cultures, contexts, and communities collide to remember, affirm, and archive.
DIRECTOR BIO:
Luchina Fisher
Luchina Fisher is the Emmy-Award winning director of “The Dads” (Netflix), which won the 2024 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Program and GLAAD's Special Recognition Award. Her feature directorial debut, “Mama Gloria”, was nominated for a 2022 GLAAD Media Award and broadcast on PBS. She has also directed several award-winning documentaries, sits on the board of New York Women in Film and Television, and teaches film at Yale and Fairfield University.
