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EXCLUSIVE: Daughters, the award-winning Netflix documentary set behind the partitions of a Washington DC jail, will function the closing night time collection of a brand new movie pageant going down at California’s San Quentin Rehabilitation Heart.
The movie, winner of the Pageant Favourite Award in addition to the Viewers Award for US Documentary at Sundance, facilities on a particular “Daddy-Daughter Dance” the place incarcerated males and their daughters take part in a singular and emotional bonding expertise. It can display October 11 on the San Quentin Movie Pageant, a two-day occasion on the grounds of the jail that homes upwards of 4,000 inmates (the power, which modified its identify final yr from San Quentin State Jail, consists of sections starting from minimal – to maximum-security).
‘Daughters’
Netflix
“We’re honored to have Daughters display because the Closing Night time movie in San Quentin!” stated Natalie Rae, who directed the documentary with Angela Patton. “To attach incarcerated fathers and their daughters is our mission and this screening exhibits that collectively we are able to break down these limitations. It is a movie for and by these fathers and daughters, so that is precisely the place it must be.”
Patton, CEO of Women For A Change, acknowledged, “I’m deeply honored to have Daughters because the Closing Night time choice on the San Quentin Movie Pageant. This screening underscores our movie’s mission to amplify the voices of younger women whose fathers are incarcerated, fostering understanding and provoking change. Regardless of their fathers being behind bars, these women are decided to not enable the system to lock them out of their fathers’ lives.”
The San Quentin Movie Pageant, co-founded and co-directed by Cori Thomas and Rahsaan “New York” Thomas (no relation to Cori), is the primary movie pageant ever to be held at an energetic jail, in keeping with organizers. Deadline understands the jail has approved 125 outdoors visitors to attend the pageant, all by invitation. Company embody leisure business leaders – executives and artists – together with donors, foundations, community-based organizations and companions working within the discipline, and formerly-incarcerated filmmakers. (A SQFF24 Digital Screening Move, out there to the general public, will go on sale in September).
San Quentin Rehabilitation Heart, the oldest state jail in California.
Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures
As well as, some present San Quentin residents – incarcerated filmmakers whose narrative or documentary quick movies had been chosen for screening at SQFF24 – will attend the occasion. Winners within the shorts classes can be chosen by a jury of 19 leisure business professionals together with actors Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction, Basquiat, Angels in America); Billy Crudup (The Morning Present, Nearly Well-known); Kathy Najimi (Sister Act, The Kathy & Mo Present), Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds, Angels in America).
Administrators on the jury quantity Magnificence Bratton (The Inspection, Pier Children); Taylor Hackford (Ray, Blood In Blood Out); Greg Kwedar (Sing Sing, Jockey); Lynn Novick (The US and the Holocaust, School Behind Bars); Jeff Stanzler (Jumpin’ On the Boneyard, Love Will get You Twisted), and Joe Talbot (The Final Black Man in San Francisco, American Paradise).
Pageant model and emblem design is by incarcerated graphic artist Salvador Joaquin.
San Quentin Movie Pageant/Courtesy of Salvador Joaquin
Author/producers on the jury embody Sam Catlin (Breaking Dangerous, Sugar); Lawrence O’Donnell (The West Wing, Mr. Sterling); writer Piper Kerman (Orange is the New Black: My Yr in a Girls’s Jail), and JT Rogers (Tokyo Vice, Oslo); editor Paul Rogers (Every little thing In all places All At As soon as) additionally joins the judging panel.
Producers collaborating on the jury embody former HBO President Len Amato (The White Home Plumbers, Blood Diamond); Tribeca Enterprises CEO, Tribeca Movie Pageant Co-founder Jane Rosenthal (When They See Us, The Irishman); Rick Telles (A Million Miles Away, Highway Guidelines), and Monique Walton (Sing Sing, Bull).
An Inside Jury comprised of incarcerated individuals will choose a curated collection of narrative and documentary options concerning the jail expertise directed by filmmakers who’ve by no means served jail time.
‘Sing Sing’
A24
As beforehand introduced, SQFF24 will open with the acclaimed A24 drama Sing Sing, written and directed by Greg Kwedar, winner of the Viewers Award at SXSW and the Excellence in Ensemble Performing Award on the Seattle Worldwide Movie Pageant. The movie stars Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Paul Raci, Sean San José, and extra previously incarcerated actors.
LR Director Angela Patton, EP Kerry Washington, and director Natalie Rae on the Deadline Portrait Studio through the 2024 Sundance Movie Pageant.
Michael Buckner for Deadline
Daughters, govt produced by Kerry Washington, debuts on Netflix at this time (Aug. 14). Administrators Rae and Patton are planning to attend the SQFF24 screening and can take part in a Q&A with pageant attendees and San Quentin residents.
“After opening with the highly effective, beautiful and affecting Sing Sing, I can not consider a greater exclamation level than the attractive, luminous, deeply shifting Daughters,” stated SQFF Co-Founder and Co-Director Cori Thomas. “Two distinct and beautiful movies to bookend our inaugural pageant.”
“Daughters is a tremendous movie,” added Rahsaan “New York” Thomas, SQFF co-founder and co-director, “and I pray showcasing it at San Quentin will result in extra fathers doing higher for his or her daughters and sons.”
A part of the suite of San Quentin Movie Pageant designs by graphic artist Salvador Joaquin.
San Quentin Movie Pageant/Courtesy of Salvador Joaquin
SQFF24 is supported by Tribeca Pageant, Pollen Initiative and Empowerment Avenue, together with a number of donors and sponsors.
“The SQFF represents a groundbreaking occasion within the context of rehabilitative programming and the mixing of the humanities throughout the jail system,” commented Nancy Lefkowitz, EVP Tribeca Enterprises. “This strategy not solely highlights the artistic abilities inside jail populations, but in addition integrates these people into broader cinematic and cultural dialogues. It represents a pioneering effort on this area.”
‘Daughters’ To Shut First San Quentin Movie Pageant At Calif. Jail
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