Fairyland

Directed by Andrew Durham

A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s with her gay dad.
Based on the memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott. Buy the book on Amazon.
Fairyland is a tender coming-of-age drama based on Alysia Abbott’s memoir, centred on a daughter growing up with her gay father in 1970s and 80s San Francisco. Andrew Durham brings warmth and period texture to the story, and the AIDS-era material gives the family bond deep emotional resonance.

Fairyland

Directed by Andrew Durham

A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s with her gay dad.
Based on the memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott. Buy the book on Amazon.

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Fairyland is a tender coming-of-age drama based on Alysia Abbott’s memoir, centred on a daughter growing up with her gay father in 1970s and 80s San Francisco. Andrew Durham brings warmth and period texture to the story, and the AIDS-era material gives the family bond deep emotional resonance.