Daughters is a 2024 American documentary film directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton. It follows a group of incarcerated men and their daughters. It premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2024, where it won the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary.The Complete List of 2024 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners|Sundance Film Festival The film also won a 2025 Peabody Award.
Premise Four young girls whose ages range from 5-15 prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail. Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana are participants in a program run by Patton's organization, Girls For A Change.
Production Rae contacted Patton about working together after seeing Patton's 2012 TED talk, "A father-daughter dance ... in prison."
The crew followed the girls for eight years, beginning in the first year the program held a Washington, D.C. dance.
Release The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2024, where it won the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary. A few days later, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film.
Reception Accolades Award Date Category Recipient Result Sundance Film Festival January 28, 2024 U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Daughters U.S. Documentary – Audience Award Festival Favorite Critics' Choice Documentary Awards November 10, 2024 Best Documentary Feature Best Director Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Best New Documentary Filmmaker(s) Best Score Kelsey Lu Best Cinematography Michael "Cambio" Fernandez Best Editing Troy Lewis and Adelina Bichiș Winter IndieWire Honors December 5, 2024 Magnify Award Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Astra Film Awards December 8, 2024 Best Documentary Feature Daughters Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association December 8, 2024 Best Documentary Celebration of Cinema and Television December 9, 2024 Documentary Award Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Chicago Film Critics Association December 12, 2024 Best Documentary Film Daughters San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle December 15, 2024 Best Documentary Feature St. Louis Film Critics Association December 15, 2024 Best Documentary Feature Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 18, 2024 Best Documentary Film Florida Film Critics Circle December 20, 2024 Best Documentary Film Alliance of Women Film Journalists January 7, 2025 Best Documentary Film Daughters Cinema Eye Honors January 9, 2024 Outstanding Non-Fiction Feature Natalie Rae, Angela Patton, Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, James Cunningham, Mindy Goldberg, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Laura Choi Raycroft, Adrian Aurelius, Philip Nicolai Flindt, Michael Cambio Fernandez, and Kelsey Lu Outstanding Debut Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Audience Choice Prize Daughters Directors Guild of America Awards February 8, 2025 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Academy of Television Arts & Sciences May 1, 2025 Television Academy Honors Award A Netflix Documentary / An Object & Animal and Epoch Films Production / A Park Pictures and XTR Production / In Association with OPC, World of HA, Simpson Street, and Two One Five Peabody Awards May 1, 2025 Documentary News and Documentary Emmy Awards June 26, 2025 Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Daughters Outstanding Direction: Documentary Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
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