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In the midst of a silent yet devastating epidemic of fatherlessness, CALL ME DAD is a film about fathers with broken families whose children are gone. Now, through a men’s program, they each have the chance to regain what’s lost, to transform himself and earn another shot at the title, ‘Dad’.

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Production Completion
2015
Genre
Social contemporary
Production Company
Media Stockade Pty Ltd
Australian Sales
ABC Commercial
International Sales
Media Stockade Pty Ltd

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