Wrapping up today’s DOC NYC preview: Modern Family profiles unconventional families.
Modern Family
CIRCUS KID
Director: Lorenzo Pisoni
NYC PREMIERE
Capturing the spirit, lunacy, daring, and dynamics of growing up in a circus family.
FOLLOWING SEAS
Directors: Tyler J Kelley & Araby Wiliams
NYC PREMIERE
Bob and Nancy Griffith made 20 ocean voyages over two decades, fulfilling a dream of freedom and adventure in their 53-foot sailboat.
THE GUYS NEXT DOOR (pictured above)
Directors: Amy Geller & Allie Humenuk
NYC PREMIERE
A married woman in her forties, with a husband and three children, is also the surrogate mother for her married gay friends’ children.
THE JONESES
Director: Moby Longinotto
NYC PREMIERE
Jheri Jones, a lively 74-year-old transgender divorcée, works hard to keep her family together in a trailer park home in the Bible Belt of Mississippi.
Why You Should Attend:
Explore the changing face of family relationships in this thematic sidebar, which includes a transgender matriarch, a surrogate, a father who’s a literal clown, and a lifetime spent on the open seas.
More Info:
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