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Catherine Freyne, Senior Producer, Impact Studios UTS, University of Technology Sydney

Jimpa lovingly follows in the tradition of artwork about fathers who came out of the closet

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Jimpa is an emotionally nuanced family drama by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde.

“Jimpa” is the family nickname for flamboyant and provocative patriarch, Jim (John Lithgow). Born in the early 1950s, Jim came out as gay to his wife Katherine (Deborah Kennedy) in the late 1970s when their youngest child, Hannah, was a baby.

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