Portland, Oregon
“I stopped trying to make her brave. She was already brave. I just had to stop getting in the way.”
A carpenter who rebuilt his week around a girl who asks better questions than he does.
Introduction
The silent language of presence.
A documentary archive of fathers who are sensitive, attentive, and deeply involved in their daughters' lives — and of what raising a daughter changes in a man.
The Project Premise
Fatherhood is either ignored or played for laughs. Neither reflects the men we know. We sit down with fathers and daughters and ask what involvement actually does: to how he sees women, to how he sees the world his daughter walks through, and to who she becomes.
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