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‘Daughters’ Wins 2024 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and Festival Favorite Award

NNPA NEWSWIRE — First-time doc director Angela Patton, CEO of Girls for Change, teamed with video music director Natalie Rae (Leon Bridges: Bad Bad News) and they documented the journey of four young girls looking forward to attending a prom in a Washington, D.C. prison. Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana are anxious as they prepare for the event. Their dads, Keith, Mark, Alonzo and Frank, are twice as nervous.

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March 4, 2024

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Directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, Executive Producer Kerry Washington and subjects Aubrey Smith, Mark Grimes and Advocate Chad Morris stop by The Hollywood Reporter's studio during the Sundance film festival to talk about their documentary 'Daughters,' about four young girls who prepare for a special daddy-daughter dance with their incarcerated fathers. Patton and Rae discuss the "de-humanizing" experience for young girls who want to visit their fathers in jail and the impact this film had on families.

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