Angela Patton and Natalie Rae join composer Kelsey Lu to talk about what went into making their hard-hitting documentary, 'Daughters.'
isn’t that it has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes. Or that it received a standing ovation at Sundance. Or that it’s already being primed for Oscar talk. What matters most, according to the collaborators, is how the documentary impacted its subjects.highlights four girls, between the ages of five and 15, in the months leading up to their reunion with their incarcerated fathers at a daddy-daughter dance organized by Patton’s nonprofit,.
LU: I’m so honored. But I also want to say, thank you for dedicating your lives to shining a light on the importance of empathy, honesty, compassion, and love. It’s been really beautiful now that it’s out in a way that is accessible for everyone. All the messages that I’ve been receiving have been so beautiful.
I used those same experiences as I had been trying to uplift black girls and make sure that they had some access to opportunities. I figured that same energy that I had in my organization could be poured into the film.
PATTON: Well, this particular Date With Dad program could have gone many different ways. We could have focused on the criminal justice system, the sheriff that said “Yes,” a jail story, or the mothers. But really it came from the girls. They didn’t think it was fair that someone wouldn’t get the same experience of a traditional father-daughter dance just because they were incarcerated.
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