In September 2020, my 70-year-old father came out as gay. As he forges a new liberated life in the American South and my mother reckons with the end of their 45-year marriage in the Midwest, I am relearning how to be a daughter.
DADDY is one family’s coming-of-age story that began as an old man’s coming out story. The film explores the unknowability of those we love most and the desire to try anyway. Our story tracks the implications of liberation in a religious, working class context, testifying that the gap between oppression and freedom is a journey worth pursuing… even if it comes at a cost. DADDY offers questions about how we care for one another when family isn’t all it’s promised to be… but perhaps something more than we ever imagined.
