Johnny Symons is an award-winning documentary film and videomaker based in Oakland, California. He is the co-producer of the Academy Award nominated Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000), a feature documentary about South Africa's search for truth and reconciliation, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Johnny has a 10-year history of creating films on gay culture and he has a Master's degree in documentary film and video production from Stanford University.
DADDY & PAPA is a one hour documentary exploring the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men who are making a decision that is at once traditional and revolutionary: to raise children themselves. Taking us inside four gay male families, DADDY & PAPA traces the day-to-day challenges and the larger, critical issues that inevitably intersect their private lives-the ambiguous…