The Dads
A group of dads building a movement to support their trans and gender-expansive kids face an impossible choice: stay and fight, or flee the country.
Inspired by the Emmy Award-winning short documentary of the same name (Netflix, 2023), The Dads follows fathers of trans and nonbinary children forced to choose between country and family amid a shifting political landscape.
Filmed over the course of a year — from quiet retreats in rural Maine and Minnesota to protests, family milestones, a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision and the collapse of gender-affirming care — the film captures a moment of national reckoning with striking intimacy.
Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Luchina Fisher and executive produced by Dwyane Wade, it is a portrait of fatherhood as an act of radical love and resistance — shifting the narrative away from what divides us toward what brings us together: love, connection and community.
- Little Light Productions, in association with The Dads Foundation, 59th & Prairie Entertainment and Elevate Studios.
- World premiered in Austin earlier this year at SXSW Film 2026.
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