Daughters is a 2024 American documentary film directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton. It follows a group of incarcerated men and their daughters, four young girls preparing for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.

A generation of youth bare the weight of mass incarceration on their childhoods. These wounds impair development and can last a lifetime. In-person visitation for these families has been systematically shut down across the US since 2014, replaced with video conference apps the families have to pay for. This unique program involves dance, touch and celebration that transcends the prison walls. On the inside, we watch the fathers go through a 12-week Fatherhood Training Program that prepares them for the intensity of the dance and the emotional fallout.

Join Northeastern University's African Studies, the Center for Crime, Race and Justice, The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Community & City Engagement, partnered with Girls for a Change, The Roxbury Film Festival, and Netflix for this wonderful opportunity to View the film, interact with the films Director, Angela Patton, Executive Producer, Chad Morris, along with one of the incarcerated fathers in the film, Leonard Smith. Will also be joined by the Harriet Tubman Project, a local organization working on the ground to pursue justice for incarcerated people in Massachusetts, and Northeastern Professors Patricia Collins and Matthew Alemu during a powerful panel discussion and audience Q&A.  

Doors will open at 5:45 PM. Event starts at 6:30 PM.