Hair Love (2019)

Directed by

Everett Downing Jr., Matthew A. Cherry, Bruce W. Smith

Genre

drama film, comedy film, family film

Country

United States

Runtime

6 min

Rated

G

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 488 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A father tries to style his young daughter's hair for the first time. With some help from a video tutorial, he works to get it just right.

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What happens

Hair Love is a 2019 American independent animated short film directed by Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr., and Bruce W. Smith, and written by Cherry. It follows the story of a man who must do his daughter's hair for the first time, and features Issa Rae as the voice of the mother. The film was produced after a 2017 Kickstarter campaign, and was also released as a children's book in May 2019 with illustrations by Vashti Harrison. Hair Love received generally positive reviews and won Best Animated Short Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. A spin-off TV series titled Young Love was ordered by Max in July 2020 and premiered on September 21, 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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