The sun-drenched, postcard-like shots in the film Fairyland evoke a bygone era of San Francisco.

Shot on location, the film depicts the city in the wake of the Summer of Love. A father, Steven Abbott, moves his young daughter, Alysia, to the city after the death of her mother. It’s a new beginning for both of them; he embraces an openly gay life while raising his daughter in a world full of artists, drag queens and former boyfriends.

Alysia Abbot. (Amber Davis Toularentes)

Over the years, their relationship ebbs and flows; Steven’s orange Volkswagen Beetle struggling up the hills of his new home is an apt visual metaphor. The story culminates during the AIDS crisis, when university-age Alysia returns home to care for her father.

Based on the 2013 memoir of the same name by Alysi

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