FOR OUR DAUGHTERS
Directed by SHANNEN O'BRIAN, DANIEL J. PIERCE

Date
September 10, 2019
About Project
DIRECTOR
SHANNEN O’BRIAN, DANIEL J. PIERCE
COUNTRY
CANADA, GHANA
RUNNING TIME
83 mins
YEAR
2015
LANGUAGE
English
ABOUT THE FILM
For Our Daughters follows the lives of four young women from northern Ghana. In a country in which learning is reserved for men only and women are assigned menial and traditional household roles, these four are determined to receive an education. Supported by a Vancouver foundation, they are invited to visit Canada. Their hope is to raise funds to provide hundreds of young village women with school fees and equipment. The film accompanies them on their journey and captures their passionate and intelligent voices. “If you educate a man,” one of them says, “you’ve educated only one person, but if you educate a woman, you’ve educated a whole nation.”