'True Dads': Overcoming Adversity to Raise Families

NPR | By Alex Chadwick

Published December 15, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Alex Chadwick interviews Sean Fine, the producer and cinematographer of True Dads, a documentary that looks at six different fathers and how they've overcome adversity to raise their families. Fine also talks about how the process of making the film affected relationships in his own family.

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