Film Screening: Netflix Documentary "Daughters"

Description

Join the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center and the Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) graduate film and media program for the launch of the Stories That Matter film screening series.

The series opens with a screening of the Netflix documentary film Daughters, which is shortlisted for an Academy Award, nominated for the BAFTA Award, and won both the Audience Award and the Festival Favorite Award at the Sundance Film Festival last year. The film is the story of four young girls as they prepare for a special Daddy-Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail. A moving story of empathy and forgiveness, Daughters is a result of a rigorous eight-year documentary journey by co-directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae. Rae will attend the inaugural screening and participate in a conversation following the film along with special guests.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

More about the Stories That Matter series

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center and the Johns Hopkins AAP Graduate Film and Media launched the "Stories that Matter" film screening series to present cinema at the intersection of art, scientific discovery, urgent social issues and international affairs. The series is designed to cultivate robust dialogue among filmmakers, scholars, students, government officials, policy stakeholders, and the public.