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 film also won a 2025 Peabody Award.
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 JaâÂÂAna are participants in a program run by Patton's organization, Girls For A Change.
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.
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.