The World Community Film Festival in partnership with the Prism Film Festival Presents: Fatherhood Dreams

The World Community Film Festival in partnership with the Prism Film Festival Presents:

Fatherhood Dreams (2007, 55 min)

Sunday, March 28th at 1:30 pm
(2 other one-hour matinées to follow)

Keith Gordon Room, Bob Harkins Branch of the PG Public Library

Day Pass $5, Festival Pass $30, Brown Bag Pass $10

Meet four gay men who have always wanted to be dads and discover the challenges they face as they realize their dreams of becoming parents. Fatherhood Dreams invites people into the day-to-day lives of gay dads Scott, Steve, Randy and Drew, who are fathers through adoption, co-parenting, and surrogacy. Their private journey through fatherhood forces them to deal with much larger issues that affect gay fathers in Canada, including the legal aspects of surrogacy, the complexity of "open adoption", and the human rights battles concerning the official recognition of LGBT and multi-parent families. This is a film about the power of love in fulfilling dreams.

Come along on an intimate journey through the lives of four gay men devoted to being fathers —and the challenges they face becoming dads.

How many gay fathers do you know? Have you ever met a child whose dad is gay? Do any families with same-sex parents live on your street? If so, do you let your kids play with their kids?

Some if not most people still have difficulty fully accepting gay mothers and fathers, even in relatively open-minded Canada, one of only five countries in the world where same-sex marriage is legal. Gay men who want to raise families are especially vilified, singled out as a threat to the traditional family. As well, gay fathers often feel as though they are excluded from the larger community of gay men—a minority within a minority.

Fatherhood Dreams takes viewers on an intimate, non-political journey through the daily lives of its subjects, their children and their extended families. By getting to know these men and the people who love them, we are better equipped to form our own opinions about what makes a “good” parent.

Fatherhood Dreams was made by Interfilm / Fatherhood Dreams Productions. It is made in association with Global Television, a division of CanWest MediaWorks Inc., and Knowledge Network, with the support of BC Film, Canadian Television Fund, Film Incentive BC and Canadian Tax Credits.

Director/Executive Producer Julia Ivanova is an accomplished documentary maker. She wrote, directed and produced: From Russia For Love (2000), which aired on TV in over twenty countries; I Want A Woman (2003), Moscow Freestyle (2006). Julia Ivanova is currently in postproduction of Master of Silence. She is a board member of the British Columbia Chapter of Documentary Organization of Canada.

Producer Boris Ivanov has been producing films since 2000, including: From Russia For Love (2000), and Moscow Freestyle (2006). He was the line producer for the feature film The Undead (2007), and unit manager for the NBC pilot of The Bionic Woman (2007) and the TV Series Battlestar Galactica. He was a director of theatrical recreations for Beyond Top Secret, which was nominated for two News & Documentary Emmys.

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