North American Premiere

The April 10 screening is RUSH ONLY. Limited tickets remain for April 11.

Keri Pickett and Dawn Mikkleson Attending

Head on down to the MSPIFF HQ for a post-screening celebration of the North American Premiere of Uncle Roy Friday, April 10 @ 9pm!

Filmmaker Keri Pickett’s cinematic portrait of her wonderful and mysterious Uncle Roy, a renowned figure skater and collector. Virtually unknown to her as a child, she befriended Roy when she moved to New York straight after college, where he became her mentor and best friend. A global performer with the skating group Holiday on Ice, Roy became an avid collector and later, the go-to headshot photographer for Broadway's established stars and rising hopefuls. Eventually, uncle and niece both made their way to Minneapolis, bought a building together, and resumed their respective photography careers while traveling the world together whenever they could. Eventually Roy began to succumb to dementia, and as Keri assumed the role of caretaker she discovered, amongst his many, many hundreds of boxes, that he was also known as the “forefather of gay photography” and his controversial nudes were highly revered in the art world. Desperate to find a permanent home for his archives of figure skating memorabilia and his photographs before he passes, Uncle Roy is at once an affectionate portrait of an uncle, colleague and friend, and a powerful look at one man’s work capturing the gay liberation movement of the 70s and 80s. From Keri Pickett, whose films First Daughter and the Black Snake (2017), and Finding Her Beat (2022)--her first collaboration with Uncle Roy producer Dawn Mikkelson–were MSPIFF favorites.