NEW DAY FILMS BY
Johnny Symons:

Daddy & Papa

Beauty Before Age

Producer's Web Site:
www.daddyandpapa.com

Johnny Symons is an Emmy-nominated independent film and videomaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His films in the New Day collection include Daddy & Papa, about the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men raising children, and Beauty Before Age, which explores the fear of growing older in the gay male community. Johnny is the co-producer of the Academy Award nominated film Long Night's Journey Into Day, about South Africa's search for truth and reconciliation, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Other work includes Shaving the Castro, a portrait of a 70-year old Castro Street barber shop, and Out in Africa, an exploration of black African gay life. His work has screened at more than 100 international film festivals, and aired on PBS and foreign television.

Johnny has an M.A. in Documentary Film and Video Production from Stanford University. He currently works as a freelance producer, cinematographer, and editor, and lectures in documentary film at Stanford and San Francisco State University.

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