Monica & David is a documentary about a young married couple with Down syndrome

Down syndrome

Down syndrome, or Down's syndrome, trisomy 21, is a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British physician who described the syndrome in 1866. The condition was clinically described earlier in the 19th...

, directed by Alexandra Codina. The movie was produced by Deborah Dickson and Alexandra Codina. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival , and opened at Laemmle's Fallbrook 7 in California on July 23, 2010. It had its television premiere on HBO on October 14, 2010.