‘Daughters’ Filmmakers on Why the Sundance Docu About Girls and Their Incarcerated Dads Is a Love Story
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variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDWomen talk that described a father-daughter dance for incarcerated dads and their daughters.
That talk was viewed over a million times and inspired the documentary “Daughters,” which has its world premiere Monday at the Sundance Film Festival.
In the film, Patton, who in the past decade has helped arrange approximately 15 Daddy Daughter Dances across the nation, and co-director Natalie Rae follow four young girls preparing for the event with their fathers in a prison in Washington, D.C.
For some of the girls, the dance will be the only time they can touch or hug their fathers during sentences, some of which are as long as 20 years.
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