The Soundtrack from the Netflix Documentary DAUGHTERS with music by Kelsey Lu (Earth Mother) featuring additional music by Miink is now available. The 28-track album releases today on music streaming platforms. Winner of two Sundance Film Festival Awards and nominated for six Critics Choice Documentary Awards, including Best Score, the film is available exclusively on Netflix.
Directed by filmmaker Natalie Rae and activist and activator Angela Patton, Daughters follows a group of girls taking part in Patton’s Washington, D.C. program Girls For A Change as they prepare for the momentous Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers. Here, they’ll be able to touch their fathers for the first time since they’ve been behind bars. Under scenes filled with the deepest degrees of love, heartbreak, and vulnerability shared by the daughters and their fathers, Lu uses notes from the cello and piano to hold the experiences of each character with tenderness.
To honor the complexities of the daughters’ relationships, Lu created a score that made space for each character to be seen and heard – a score that brings light and reverence to a powerful film about familial love.
Kelsey Lu notes, “Composing the score for ‘Daughters’ deepened my understanding of Love in all its complexities, not only to one another but to what I do. This film holds many lessons on Empathy and how important it is to fight for what you love. Angela’s work with these girls is empowering of what is possible when you believe and what she and Natalie made is testament to that. All of these sentiments are what is inside the music I’m so happy to be sharing.”
ABOUT DAUGHTERS
A moving portrait of empathy and forgiveness, DAUGHTERS traces an eight-year documentary journey by filmmaker Natalie Rae and social change advocate Angela Patton. The film intimately follows Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana as they prepare for a momentous Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers. Speaking openly about their aspirations, dreams, and the emotional toll of their fathers’ absence, compounded by the constraints of virtual visits, these girls reveal a profound wisdom and resilience beyond their years. As they navigate heartbreak, anger, and uncertainty, they seize a precious opportunity to forge connections. DAUGHTERS sheds light on the complexities of familial bonds strained by the unforgiving barriers of the criminal justice system and emphasizes that the foundation of community healing lies within the family unit.
ABOUT KELSEY LU
Kelsey Lu is a classically trained cellist, singer-songwriter, producer, composer, poet, and
performance artist born in Charlotte, North Carolina, whose artistic practice flows comfortably at the intersection of visual art, performance, healing, and music. In addition to their solo work, Lu collaborates with artists across various disciplines, from musicians such as Yves Tumor, Sampha Florence + The Machine, and Skrillex to multidisciplinary artists such as Kahlil Joseph, Wu Tsang, Precious Okoyomon, and Jacolby Satterwhite.
Kelsey Lu’s recent projects include composing the original score for the feature-length documentary DAUGHTERS (Netflix/XTR), which won both the “Audience Award: U.S. Documentary” and “Festival Favorite Award” at 2024’s Sundance Film Festival and was released on Netflix in August 2024; the original score for Savanah Leaf’s BAFTA-winning debut feature film Earth Mama (A24/Park Pictures), which premiered at Sundance 2023 and won the San Francisco International Film Festival Audience Award; and starring in and composing the original score for Janicza Bravo’s (Zola) short film House Comes With a Bird (Miu Miu commissioned) alongside fellow actors Pedro Pascal and Natasha Lyonne, which screened at the Venice Film Festival. Other notable works include the installation Anthem in collaboration with cult-artist Beverly Glenn-Copeland commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum in New York, a sound piece featured in the 2022 Venice Biennale made in collaboration with world-renowned artist Sophia Al-Maria for her film Tiger Strike Red, a week-long performance throughout the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall in response to Jacolby Satterwhite’s series A Metta Prayer, an array of work for various fashion brands including Chanel, Jil Sander, and Miu Miu, contribution to the score of the natural documentary Malika The Lion Queen, and various other score experiences in art and fashion.
TRACKLIST
- Our Mirrors
- The Wisdom Lives Inside of Them*
- Aubrey
- Separation Anxiety
- Touch I
- Father’s Circle
- Santana
- Laundromat
- 9 Weeks Left
- Ja’Ana
- Nothing At All*
- Conditions of Visitation
- Time Goes Round and Round
- Touch II
- Mother’s Circle
- Keith
- Nightmare
- BEST
- Touch III
- Storm
- Class Photo
- Waiting Room
- Hallway Reunion
- Touch IV
- Passage of Time
- Parking Lot*
- Severe Thunderstorm
- Trust Is Earned
*Denotes music by Miink
