First Comes Love

Director: Nina Davenport

2013 / 105min / DCP

With disarming candor and a winning streak of self-effacing humor, autobiographical documentarian Davenport’s First Come Love documents the practical adversities and emotional trials faced by the filmmaker after she decides, as a single, career-minded 41-year-old, to have a child. Showing herself facing the discouraging warnings of medical professionals, dealing with touchy relationships with friends and sperm donors, and negotiating the complications that arise when a new, budding love affair upends her life, Davenport, in her frank, funny film, offers a unique and intimate perspective on motherhood outside the traditional framework of the nuclear family.

Introduction + Q&A with filmmaker Nina Davenport on Friday, May 10th.

Part of Modern Families