"In JOYCHILD, self-awareness and sensitivity color the moment when a child tells their mother, 'I’m not a girl.'" -<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/documenting-a-trans-childs-poignant-revelation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The New Yorker</a> Soft-spoken yet resolute, a young child remembers the joys and fears that go hand-in-hand with coming out, shot in beautifully evocative black and white 16mm film.&nbsp; Director's Bio:Aurora Brachman is a documentary filmmaker currently riding out the pandemic in Los Angeles, CA. She is an MFA student in Documentary Film at Stanford University and a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow. Her most recent film ‘Club Quarantine’, about the virtual queer dance party Club Quarantine, premiered on the New York Times Op-Docs. She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Filmmaking to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati where she directed the docuseries, Between the Tides. Aurora is drawn to stories about intimacy and relationships between families, communities, or within oneself. She primarily makes work about the experiences of black, brown, and queer communities and is committed to collaborative and ethical storytelling.

JOYCHILD

Sensitivity and self-awareness colors the joys and fears of when a child tells their mother, “I’m not a girl.” Shot in beautifully evocative black and white 16mm film.

Critic's Pick&nbsp;"brisk, prismatic and richly psychodramatic family portrait."- <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/movies/film-about-a-father-who-review.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ben Kenigsberg,&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;</a> Sachs achieves a poetic resignation about unknowability inside families, and the hidden roots never explained from looking at a family tree.”– Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah.&nbsp;Film About a Father Who&nbsp;is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings.&nbsp; Director's Bio:Since the 1980s, Lynne Sachs has created cinematic works that defy genre through the use of hybrid forms and cross-disciplinary collaboration, incorporating elements of the essay film, collage, performance, documentary and poetry. Her highly self-reflexive films explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. With each project, Lynne investigates the implicit connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself.&nbsp;Over her career, Sachs has been awarded support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Her films have screened at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Walker and the Getty, and at festivals including New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, Punto de Vista, DocAviv, and DocLisboa. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at the Museum of the Moving Image, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Festival International Nuevo Cine in Havana, and China Women’s Film Festival. Her 2019 film “A Month of Single Frames” won the Grand Prize at Oberhausen Festival of Short Films in 2020.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2021, both the Edison Film Festival and the Prismatic Ground Film Festival at the Maysles Documentary Center awarded Lynne for her body of work in the experimental and documentary fields. Lynne lives in Brooklyn with her husband filmmaker Mark Street. Together, they have two daughters, Maya and Noa Street-Sachs. https://www.lynnesachs.com

FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO

Over 35 years, filmmaker Lynne Sachs recorded films of her father, Ira Sachs Sr. As startling facts mount, Sachs discovers more about him than she had ever hoped to reveal.

Lynne Sachs (Film About A Father Who) talks to Gabby Sumney about her film.

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