FILM: "The Dads"

CASCADIA and the Bellingham Queer Collective co-present a special screening with the Pickford Film Center on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 21 for PRIDE Month. The film will have only one showing at 1 p.m. at the Pickford’s Bay Street Theatre.
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.
Directed by Emmy Award-winning director and producer Luchina Fisher, the 72-minute film is a poignant, powerful story about fatherhood and the act of radical love and resistance.