Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.
Direction
Rae and Patton let silence do the screaming.
Editing
Dance prep vs. prison corridors: devastating rhythm.
Production
Access this intimate should be illegal. It's not.
Director
Natalie Rae
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patton founded the actual Camp Diva program in 2004; she met co-director Rae while Rae was volunteering to film a promo video. This whole movie started as a favor.
The Daddy Daughter Dance phenomenon itself is examined as a distinctly American ritual—one that carceral capitalism has somehow found a way to monetize through 'program fees.'
US
