Uncle Gloria: One Helluva Ride! is a darkly funny stranger than fiction film full of family drama and fireworks. During a nasty divorce, Butch, the 67-year-old Jewish macho and homophobic owner of a South Florida auto-wrecking company hides from the law—as a woman—setting of a twisting tale of 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 becomes a transgender activist, and eventually finds love, all while trying to reconcile with her dysfunctional family.

Produced and directed by two-time Emmy winning filmmaker and former PBS producer Robyn Symon, this timely transgender film was selected for a prestigious Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellowship and is supported by the International Documentary Association as its fiscal sponsor.

With a twisting plot and an abundance of humor, Uncle Gloria is an important film about letting go of labels and accepting people for who they are, regardless of their gender expression.