25th Anniversary screening Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at 2001’s Sundance Film Festival, this vibrant vérité documentary traces the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man and community leader living in rural Georgia. SOUTHERN COMFORT moves with quiet intimacy and wit, following Eads as he opens his world with disarming honesty — his romantic partnership with Lola, his loving yet complicated bond with his son, and the chosen family that surrounds him across the rural South. As Eads candidly confronts being denied lifesaving treatment by a failing healthcare system, the film transforms that injustice into a profoundly human portrait. Through these compelling conversations, director Kate Davis captures a community navigating love, caretaking, and identity in a region that often refuses to see them. Eads’ appearance at the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, an important gathering for trans people founded in 1991, becomes both elegy and testament, a reminder of the resilience and interconnectedness that sustain trans lives throughout America.