CINEMAX Reel Life documentary, XIARA’S SONG, the touching story of a seven-year-old's relationship with her incarcerated father, aired on HBO LATINO, September 5, 7, 12, 15, 22, and 30, 2005.

Like many girls her age, seven-year-old Xiara likes to make up songs, eat ice cream and play with her best friend. A real “daddy’s girl,” she’s pretty and independent, and dreams of being a superstar one day. And like ten million other American children, Xiara is the child of a prison inmate.

XIARA’S SONG explores the world of a young girl struggling to stay connected to her incarcerated father Harold when the CINEMAX Reel Life documentary debuts on Father’s Day, SUNDAY, JUNE 19 (7:00-7:45 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on CINEMAX.

Xiara idolizes Harold – who is serving a ten-year federal prison sentence after a third-strike weapons possession conviction – from afar. But her mother tries desperately to keep her daughter from following him down the brutal and self-destructive path that led to his incarceration. Combining modern-day footage with family home movies, XIARA’S SONG finds the sadness, joy, anger, love, loneliness and fear in the haunted eyes of a precocious seven-year-old coming to grips with the fact that her father won’t be free until she’s 17.

While XIARA’S SONG does not romanticize Harold, who has been in and out of jail for her entire life, it does reveal the gentle side of this handsome, charming rapper who finds inspiration in his deep love for his daughter. Harold and Xiara’s relationship is played out over monitored phone lines and supervised monthly visits, expressed through the songs they write and sing for one another.

“Xiara is a testament to the resiliency of the human spirit and the transcendent power of familial love,” says producer and director Liz Garbus. “At the same time, she is a painful reminder of the millions of unintended victims of America’s spiraling incarceration rates.”

Producer and director Liz Garbus is an Oscar ®-nominated, Emmy ®-winning filmmaker who has produced documentaries for HBO, Lifetime, A&E, Court TV, The Learning Channel, MTV and Oxygen. Her credits include the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “The Farm: Angola, USA,” “The Execution of Wanda Jean” for HBO, “The Nazi Officer’s Wife” and “Girlhood.”

Producer Rory Kennedy has produced and directed award-winning documentaries for HBO, Lifetime, A&E, Court TV, Oxygen and The Learning Channel, covering such topics as the global AIDS crisis, human rights, domestic abuse, poverty, and drug addiction. Her HBO credits include the AFI Best Documentary winner “American Hollow,” the Emmy ®-nominated series “Pandemic: Facing AIDS,” “A Boy’s Life” and, most recently, “Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable.”

Garbus and Kennedy are the co-founders of independent documentary production company Moxie Firecracker Films. XIARA’S SONG is directed by Liz Garbus; produced by Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy; line producer; Julie Gaither; cinematographers, Daniel B. Gold and Don Lenzer; editor, Eric Seuel Davies. For CINEMAX Reel Life: supervising producer, Lisa Heller; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.