Kerry Washington Boards Sundance Doc ‘Daughters’ As Executive Producer – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Kerry Washington is boarding the Sundance documentary Daughters as an government producer, becoming a member of a roster of EPs that features fellow actor Joel Edgerton, and author-philanthropist Jessica Seinfeld, spouse of comic Jerry Seinfeld.

The movie directed by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae focuses on 4 younger ladies as they put together “for a particular Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as a part of a novel fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.” Daughters premieres in U.S. Documentary Competitors on Monday.

“A transferring lesson in empathy and forgiveness, Daughters is a results of an eight-year documentary journey that filmmaker Natalie Rae and Angela Patton, an activist advocating for ‘at-promise’ ladies, embarked upon,” notes the Sundance program. “As Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana prepare for the particular occasion, they converse candidly about their hopes, goals, and disappointments. There’s an innate knowledge and honesty to what they share about their dads’ inconsistent presence; an consciousness far past their years.”

The Sundance program continues, “Daughters meaningfully challenges many stereotypes round incarceration and serves as a poignant reminder that sustaining household bonds might be each therapeutic and empowering. We get to witness lots of pleasure, however consistent with the movie’s vérité type, Rae and Patton don’t draw back from more difficult moments, together with heartbreak, skepticism, reluctance to interact, and anger. However then comes a traditional dad joke, and the temper shifts once more.”

Producers of the movie are Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Mindy Goldberg, Laura Choi Raycroft, and James Cunningham. Along with Washington, Edgerton, and Seinfeld, the manager producers embrace Lydia Kives, Jackie Bisbee, Lance Acord, Harland Weiss, Dom Thomas, J.M. Harper, Morgan Clement, and Hallee Adelman.

Monday’s world premiere might be adopted by two further screenings in Park Metropolis, Utah: on January 23 and January 26. A screening might be held on Jan. 25 in Salt Lake Metropolis on the Megaplex Theatres on the Gateway.