Netflix Nabs Sundance Doc ‘Daughters’ – The Hollywood Reporter

“Girls”

Courtesy of the Sundance Institute

Sundance documentary girls It has arrived on Netflix.

The film follows four young girls preparing for the Father-Daughter Dance, an opportunity to reunite with their incarcerated fathers as part of a fatherhood program at a Washington, D.C., prison. girls It won the Audience Award in the Documentary Competition and was awarded the Festival Favorite Award.

Directors Angela Patton and Natalie Ray are behind the feature. Patton is CEO of Girls for a Change, a nonprofit that launched Date with Dad, which offers a dance to the daughters of men incarcerated in a D.C. prison. The documentary details a ten-week program that the men enter in preparation for the dance, as well as the anticipation the girls feel for the big day.

“girls It culminates in an hour-long father-daughter dance, which is as stunning and powerful as you could hope for. From the preparations for the dance, on either side of the prison walls, to the moment when the girls tentatively walk down the hallway to where their fathers are waiting, dressed in suits tailored just for the occasion, it is one fireball of emotion after another,” wrote Daniel Feinberg in his review of Hollywood Reporter. “The actual interactions between fathers and daughters at the dance are varied in their beauty, strangeness, and familial tension. But that sequence comes too early, and then the last 40 minutes of the documentary are a series of extras and appendices with a decidedly mixed effect of “well, I guess we’re still filming.”

Netflix has bankrolled multiple projects from Sundance, including its $15 million horror film acquisition It’s what’s inside And the document Skywalkers: A Love Story.