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Daughters is Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s odyssey documenting Patton’s program that empowers girls of incarcerated Men yields insight through the subjects themselves – carefree tweens enjoying their chance to just be kids.
Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana open up on camera about cherishing lifelong connections to jailed fathers some rarely visit. Their reflections on maintaining hope with imperfect parental bonds defy assumptions around what families touched by long-term sentences or flawed rehabilitation systems need most. Moments defending and questioning their dads in the same breath showcase conflicting loyalties beyond most youths’ years.
The lens of Daughters hands the mic to the girls at its center. Rather than a parade of expositional interviews, we witness the girls of varying ages and their suppression of anger over feeling deprived of fatherly support. Their vulnerability and confusion rings out through self-aware proclamations far beyond childhood. The emotional aftermath also means some assuming parental mindsets before their time; a subtle form of parentification emerges.
During Fatherhood counseling meetings preceding a culminating dance, the film highlights systemic challenges. Chad, a Fatherhood life coach, schools the participating men that if people don’t define themselves, statistics will. His insight indicts prejudices that entomb all marginalized groups until they shake off societal constraints and claim identity.
Meanwhile, restrictive prison visitation policies increasingly bar in-person contact. For some girls, a once-annual dance with their visiting father is their sole cherished physical connection. According to the film, Prisons have been doing away with in-person visits since 2014.
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Lisa Kennedy In “Daughters,” a group of men gathers in a sunny, brightly hued prison meeting room. Each man wears an orange jumpsuit and has signed on for a 10-week course about fatherhood with life coach Chad Morris in directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s entrancing documentary, debuting at the Sundance Film Festival. The body language in the room is instructive, not least because it will change over time.
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EXCLUSIVE: Domhnall Gleeson has joined the cast of Apple‘s Fountain of Youth, a feature film based on an original idea that will be directed by Guy Ritchie and hails from Skydance Media. Also starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman, the film will be produced for Apple by Skydance, Vinson Films and Project X Entertainment.
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