ABOUT THE FILM

LOGLINE

As anti-trans legislation and hostility escalate in the United States, a group of dads, building a nascent movement to support their trans and gender expansive kids, are forced to make an impossible choice: stay and fight or flee the country.

LONG SYNOPSIS

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.

Director Luchina Fisher

Producers Luchina Fisher, Stephen Chukumba

Executive Producers Dwyane Wade, Jon Marcus, Joseph Deitch, Carolina García Jayaram, Eva Bloomfield, Laura Tanner, Anthony Chukumba, Rick White, Rebecca B White

Editors Patrick Wright, Chelsi Bullard

Director of Photography Ukachi Arinzeh

Original Score Ella Feingold and Charlie Hunter

Original Song “Make It Out Alive” co-written and performed by Morgxn

Cast Stephen Chukumba, Wayne Maines, David Parr, Frank Gonzales, Ed Diaz, Christoph Heinzer, Jose Trujillo, Alex Polotsky, AC Goldberg, JR Ford, Andy DuMont, Carlos Salazar, Casey Deck, Mike Hoffman, Bill Magness, Chris

FESTIVALS
2026: SXSW (World Premiere)

AVAILABLE TERRITORIES
The World

EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, Digital Download