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Winner of the Audience Award: US Documentary, at the Sundance Film Festival, Daughters follows young girls and their incarcerated fathers as they prepare for a special daddy-daughter dance in a Washington, DC, jail. Part of Virginia’s groundbreaking Date with Dad project, the event is the culmination of a 12-week counselling program that assists inmates to foster successful relationships with their daughters both while they’re inside and after their release. Given the statewide decrease of in-person visitation and the increasing costs of video-communication, the dance will be the first moment of physical contact since incarceration for some of these parents and children. Shot over the course of eight years, the film captures the weight of the complex emotions these girls and their dads must navigate, in both the lead-up to the big event and the ensuing separation. Intimate and honest, this heart-rending study uniquely reveals one of the most personal consequences of mass incarceration.

Distributor: Netflix

Credits

  • Director(s)

    • Angela Patton
    • Natalie Rae
  • Producer(s)

    • Lisa Mazzotta
    • Natalie Rae
    • Justin Benoliel
    • Mindy Goldberg
    • Sam Bisbee
    • Kathryn Everett
    • Laura Choi Raycroft
    • James Cunningham
  • Executive Producer(s)

    • Kerry Washington
    • Pilar Savone
    • Angela Patton
    • Joel Edgerton
    • Jessica Seinfeld
    • Hallee Adelman
    • Lydia Kives
    • J.M. Harper
    • Lance Acord
    • Jackie Kelman Bisbee
    • Wendy Neu
    • Dom Thomas
    • Morgan Clement
    • Jessica Taneja
    • Bryn Mooser
    • Shane Riley
    • Harland Weiss
    • Donovan M. Boden
    • Isil Gilderdale
    • Emily Harris
  • Writer(s)

    • Natalie Rae
    • Angela Patton
    • Troy Lewis
    • Adelina Bichis
  • Editor(s)

    • Troy Lewis
    • Adelina Bichis
  • Cinematography

    • Michael Cambio Fernandez
  • Music

    • Kelsey Lu
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