The Dryden will screen Uncle Gloria: One Helluva Ride! (Robyn Symon, U.S. 2016, 75 min., DCP) as part of the ImageOut Festival.

A darkly funny, stranger-than-fiction film that's full of family drama and fireworks. During a nasty divorce, Butch Stein, the 67 year-old Jewish macho and homophobic owner of a South Florida auto-wrecking company hides from the law … as a woman, which starts this twisting tale of self discovery. Naming herself after her two idols —Gloria Estefan and Gloria Steinem, she decides to remodel herself in much the same way Butch once lovingly restored his old cars. As a senior citizen, she undergoes a risky sex change operation, becomes a dominatrix then a transgender activist, and along the way finds love — all while trying to reconcile with her dysfunctional family.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Oct-3]