Fair Play
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Description
Fair Play by Jennifer Siebel Newsom turns the unequal division of domestic labor into a wider story about gender, time, resentment, and the hidden management work that keeps households running. Inspired by Eve Rodsky’s framework, it follows Eve and three families trying to rebalance care, chores, and responsibility while exposing how private tensions are tied to workplace norms and cultural expectations. The documentary stays closest to the mental load itself, showing how ordinary conflicts over dishes, schedules, and parenting often reflect a much deeper imbalance at home.
Director / Filmmaker
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
About the Director / Filmmaker
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, writer, director, and producer, builds films and campaigns around gender stereotypes, media narratives, and cultural change. Official biographies link her to The Representation Project and to Miss Representation, The Mask You Live In, The Great American Lie, and Fair Play. Her work sits between documentary and civic advocacy, using film and media education together rather than treating a release as the end of the conversation.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, writer, director, and producer, builds films and campaigns around gender stereotypes, media narratives, and cultural change. Official biographies link her to The Representation Project and to Miss Representation, The Mask You Live In, The Great American Lie, and Fair Play. Her work sits between documentary and civic advocacy, using film and media education together rather than treating a release as the end of the conversation.
Topic
Relationships, Parenting
Who It’s Best For
Couples carrying recurring tension around chores, childcare, and invisible planning labor are the clearest fit for this. It also helps viewers look at domestic inequality as a structural issue, not just a communication problem inside one relationship.
Production Company / Studio
Hello Sunshine, The Representation Project, P&G Studios
Approach
Invisible domestic labor is treated as a structural imbalance, with families, statistics, and gender analysis used to map how unpaid work accumulates. The stance is openly reform-minded, pressing redistribution and recognition rather than staging neutral observation.
Duration
95 Minutes
Year
2022
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