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The F Word

Nicole and Kristan adoptive parents

Nicole Opper (the SilverDOCS Award winning, Emmy-nominated filmmaker) and Kristan Cassady are a queer Bay Area couple who decide they want to form their family by adopting from foster care.

Series

Indie Lens Storycast

Premiere Date

September 14, 2017

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production, Development

Awards & Recognition

Nominee

2019 International Documentary Association (IDA) - Best Short Form Series

Nicole Opper

Producer/Director

Nicole Opper is an Emmy®-nominated filmmaker who directed and produced the feature documentary Off and Running, an Audience Favorite at Tribeca and winner of ten international awards including Best Documentary at Outfest and Best Documentary Screenplay at Silverdocs. The film was nationally broadcast on P.O.V. in 2010. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to direct Visitor’s Day which is supported by New York State Council on the Arts, Chicken & Egg Pictures and ITVS. She’s also produced films for the Discovery Channel and Here TV, and was selected for Filmmaker Magazine’s annual "25 New Faces of Independent Film." Nicole has taught filmmaking at Stanford University and San Francisco State University, among other schools.
Kristan Cassady

Producer/Director

Born in Winter Park, Florida, Kristan Cassady began Suzuki violin in her public school. After graduation from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts, she worked as an educator and musician in and around the New York City area. She has played with ensembles including the London Symphony, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, and Saturday Night Live as well as recorded and toured with such artists as Adele, Kanye West, and Stevie Wonder. Once she met Nicole, her orchestra management skills lead her to film producing, beginning with short films, as well as the feature-length documentary Visitor's Day, and the web-series, The F Word.