Fathers’ Voices
14 min / documentary / 2004 / USA
filmmakers: Greg Schell and James May
‘Fathers’ Voices’ focuses on four men raising children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In an intimate, honest and powerful manner, they share their hopes, dreams, joys and challenges.
In turn, their personal isolation is reduced and they gain new understanding about why they are so important in their family’s lives.
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