movie backdrop
Joy! Portrait of a Nun

Joy! Portrait of a Nun

  • Overview
  • Crew
  • Recommendations

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2012

Runtime

1h 12m

User Score

53%

Original Title

Joy! Portrait of a Nun

Director

Joe Balass

Description

Spiritual sanctuary, sex, sisterhood and a gathering of faeries. A bearded nun. Through an intimate lens, this feature documentary takes us on a journey with Sister Missionary P. Delight, one of the founders of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. In 1979, Mish, as he is affectionately known by his friends, created an Order of gay male nuns to promote a philosophy of promulgating universal joy and expiating guilt. Both he and the Order have come a long way since then. Today, the Sisters are spread out across the globe, and Mish lives in the middle of the woods of the Deep South, in a community of Radical Faeries. JOY! follows Mish and his community over a seven year period, along the way we discover the history of the movement and the highs and lows of his own personal journey.