Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s first documentary started with a Ted Talk. In 2013, Patton, who runs the organization Girls for a Change, gave a viral speech about a program she launched called Date With Dad, in which daughters and their incarcerated fathers are allowed to spend an evening together at a dance. Rae found herself moved by the story and cold-emailed Patton. “I reached out and said, ‘This would be so amazing as a documentary,’ and she wrote back and said there were quite a few people interested. I was like, ‘Oh, of course. I need to get in line.’ But I decided to just put my vision forward to her and see what happens.”
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