Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with Dave Bekerman (TRAD)

If you spend any amount of time on TikTok, specifically, you’ll likely stumble across Tradwife-Tok. It’s a very real thing—women teaching their viewers how to be a tradwife, or teaching men how to make their wives tradwives. With his new short film, TRAD, filmmaker Dave Bekerman uses his discovery of this social media subculture as a jumping-off point to explore archaic societal gender roles and the behind-the-scenes of it all. In a recent Zoom call, the writer/director discussed the script and Good for her Cinema.

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