Members of the Religious Right have been clashing publicly with gay advocates and activists for decades. But when that clash happens within a family, the result goes well beyond media fireworks. Armed with a digital camera and an on-going interest in the cultural landscape, noted Filmmaker Arthur Dong (Coming Out Under Fire, Forbidden City, Licensed to Kill) explores the lives of a Pentecostal church leader and her lesbian daughter, a Mormon bishop and his gay son and an ultra-conservative Congressman whose former chief of staff (once regarded as a son) created national headlines when he came out as gay.

Dong uses these cases to explore the paradox of intolerance among Christian fundamentalists, even when that intolerance leads to apparent contempt for and alienation from their own children. What Trembling Before G-d (shown at last year's festival) did for Orthodox Judaism, Family Fundamentals does for the Christian Right. A powerful film not to be missed by anyone who has experienced faith as fundamentally inconsistent with homosexuality. – Marguerite Moritz