Fatherhood Film Image Festival Features City Dads Talking Media Image

What we see sometimes has a stronger impact than what we read or hear. The 2020 Fatherhood Image Film Festival looks at how visuals in movies and the media portray dads and affect people’s perception of paternal parenthood.

Fatherhood Image Film Festival (FIFF), now in its seventh year, runs from Oct. 23-25 online (it is normally based in New York City). It features screenings from emerging producers, videographers and filmmakers from all over the world. FIFF has a mission to showcase new films and young filmmakers and their various takes on fatherhood.

Films at the festival, according to its founders, represent perspectives on fatherhood from wives, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters lending understanding and compassion to the important role fathers play in the family structure.

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You can get a full FIFF schedule, a synopsis of all the featured movies, and buy tickets to stream the movies at: https://www.bingewave.com/f/fatherhood-image-film-festival-2020.

Assisting FIFF with its work this year will be three City Dads Group members who will participate on a panel about how fathers are represented in the media. The free panel, scheduled for 4 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, Oct. 25, will be broadcast via Facebook at The Real Dads Network page.

The panel, which will take some questions from viewers, will feature:

The inaugural Fatherhood Image Film Festival in 2013 brought together hundreds of people to serious discussions about how men could be become better fathers. It began with as a “Kickstarter-type” project that evolved into New York City’s first ever film festival based solely on the topic of fatherhood, festival founder Bob McCullough Jr. said in a 2013 interview.