Monica & David
Monica & David had their World Premiere at IDFA 2009 and won Best Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival 2010. The film continued to play the festival circuit, including Hotdocs, Silverdocs and many others before their primetime premiere across the country during October 2010, Down Syndrome Awareness Month & National Disability Employment Awareness Month, in the U.S on HBO.
Directed by: Alexandra Codina
Granted on: 2008-09-01
Grant: I Believe in You Grant
Monica and David are in love. Truly, blissfully in love. They also happen to have Down syndrome. Both have strong and long relationships with their respected mothers. Ali Codina's affectionate documentary is an intimate, year-in-the-life portrait of two childlike spirits with adult desires as they prepare for their fairy tale wedding and face the realities of married life afterward. Taking immense pride in their new roles as husband and wife, David wants to bring home the bacon, and Monica wants to fry it in the pan. They want babies of their own. But their unique circumstances still have them living with Monica's mother and husband. How will this unique family face its challenges and move forward?
