Director Jean Donohue’s film is a biographical portrait of C.D. Collins, told through words and music, an investigation into how stories are created and told. Donohue explores one woman’s lifelong journey for beauty, love, and survival. It examines how domination, abuse, and post-traumatic stress works through one’s life. Native Daughter relies solely on the words, music, and images of the artist. The film explores sexual identity, growing up queer and an artist in rural America, feminism, eco-feminism, PTSD, and the profound and necessary endurance of the creative impulse.
