Xiara's Song
Produced & Directed by Liz Garbus
Produced by Rory Kennedy
Executive Produced by Sheila Nevins
Cinematography by Daniel B. Gold and Don Lenzer
Edited by Eric Davies
Seven-year-old Xiara's father, Harold, has been in and out of jail her whole life, and his current sentence will keep him locked up until she's 17. Xiara's Song intimately documents a young girl's struggle to stay connected to her father, and Xiara's mother's struggle to keep her from following in Harold's dangerous footsteps.
This verite documentary combines present day footage with home movies to explore a father-daughter relationship under extraordinary circumstances, providing a moving portrait of one of the 10 million American children with a parent in prison.