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It's 1976 and Elizabeth is just your average suburban 11-year-old praying for adolescence to arrive, when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother, Marion, is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed “truth" she's been clinging to, and go after her daughter. This leads to a cathartic cross-country trek by a mother searching for a daughter who's searching for a mother, and, in truth, both of them searching for themselves.
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a very female coming-of-age story that explores the tension between creating identity and finding it within.
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Tara Johns is an Alberta-born filmmaker who has built her home and career in Montreal. She has made many music videos and national television commercials. Her first fiction film, Killing Time, was awarded the prize for Best Canadian Short at the 2001 Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival. Her television documentary, The Secret Language of Girls (2005) was broadcast on the W Network and the Independent Film Channel. The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is Johns’ first feature film. 
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