This feature film depicts what happens “when a young man tricks his homophobic father into a camping trip with his secret boyfriend?”
The story goes like this:
Colby’s dad knows his son is gay, but he doesn’t like talking about it. He respects it, but ignores everything about that aspect of his son’s life – he doesn’t even know about Colby’s long-term boyfriend, Rusty.
Increasingly committed to Rusty, Colby hatches a plan to trick his father into camping with Rusty under the pretense that Rusty is Colby’s straight friend and future business partner. Colby is convinced that, given the chance, his father and his boyfriend will get along great…
Arthur Allen explains on his Kickstarter page that his film’s purpose is:
Winning Dad extends the olive branch to those hesitating over the great progress we have made this last year in the United States over sexual equality issues. Winning Dad celebrates the idea that family love strengthens romantic love, and that romantic love—even gay love—strengthens family love too.
The Winning Dad team is almost exclusively based on volunteers. All of the funds raised through Kickstarter will be used for equipment rental and production costs.