Favorite Daughter Synopsis

FAVORITE DAUGHTER is an intimate portrait of my grandmother Sylvia Weinstock and my mother Janet Isa, sheltering in place together in a lower Manhattan apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sylvia was living alone for the first time in her life when after her partner of 69 years, my grandpa, Ben, passed away. Then her youngest daughter, Janet, moved in. This short documentary is both raw and charming, melancholy and funny-a portrait of two women with vastly different experiences coming together and supporting one another through the uncertainty of spending the next chapters of their lives "alone," without a partner.

FAVORITE DAUGHTER is an intimate portrait of my grandmother Sylvia Weinstock and my mother Janet Isa, sheltering in place together in a lower Manhattan apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sylvia was living alone for the first time in her life when after her partner of 69 years, my grandpa, Ben, passed away. Then her youngest daughter, Janet, moved in. This short documentary is both raw and charming, melancholy and funny-a portrait of two women with vastly different experiences coming together and supporting one another through the uncertainty of spending the next chapters of their lives "alone," without a partner.

November 30, 2022 at 11:39 PM