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Feb 10, 2020 · By Ateh Jewel. 10 February 2020. Last night, “Hair Love” an animated short by former athlete Matthew Cherry, and producer Karen Rupert Toliver won an Oscar. This historic win - funded by the public with a 2017 Kickstarter campaign - depicts a black father’s search on how to nurture and care for his daughter’s natural curly textured hair.
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Language. English. Hair Love is a 2019 American independent animated short film [1] 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 ...
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While the film is a more than a reason to celebrate, considering its nomination for an Academy Award, Cherry’s story on the creation of this film is a compelling tale of how timing is always right. Using Kickstarter campaigns for his previous films, "The Last Fall" and "9 Rides," Cherry wasn’t new to this hustle. “I had done two Kickstarter campaig...
After working hard to find a way for "Hair Love" to qualify for the Oscars, Cherry’s team and Sony were able to screen it before "Angry Birds 2" last summer. It was like the kind of the perfect timing for us to race to the finish line,” Toliver stated. “It really does represent I think what Sony Animation is all about in terms of diverse storytelli...
While the success of "Hair Love" was a matter of hard work, collaboration, and the magic of timing, it showed us just how powerful and necessary diverse storytelling is in media and in society, and how the effort to tell these stories comes from all sides of the industry. “I'm grateful for my role as a studio executive and I just want to see more p...
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Not easy enough to tame. Not good enough to wake up and go. In Hair Love, which won an Oscar for best animated short, we see two distinct ends of that spectrum. A little girl with hair too big for ...
Review: ‘Hair Love’ and docs stand out among 2020 Oscar-nominated shorts. By Robert Abele. Jan. 30, 2020 11:45 AM PT. This year’s Oscar-nominated shorts batch is the usual mixed bag of globe ...
Feb 9, 2020 · “Hair Love” is a sweet and joyful story about an African-American father learning to style his daughter’s natural hair in his wife’s absence. The film uses words sparingly; the characters ...
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A man tries to do his daughter's hair for the first time. Director Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr., Bruce W. Smith Rating G Genre Comedy, Drama, Animation Original Language English Runtime 7m
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