And her loc-wearing dad does his best to guide her through the process of styling her glorious cloud of hair, with the help of a YouTube tutorial, voiced by Issa Rae (from HBO’s Insecure ) She’s ambitious, and she tries to create a variety of styles for herself: afro puffs, intricate braids and twists. The movie is focused on Zuri, a little girl, about 6 or 7, attempting to do her own hair. If you haven’t seen it, Hair Love is a short film (as well as a children’s book) that celebrates Black natural hair and hairstyles through the story of a young dad doing his daughter’s hair for the first time. I saw the pitch for it on Twitter, thought the idea was cute, threw some money at it, and kept it moving, not really thinking about it until it was released late last year. I first heard about Hair Love, the Oscar-Nominated animated short, in 2017, when it was a Kickstarter campaign from director Matthew Cherry. Originally performed at the 1st Annual Naw-scars show in Chicago on Feb 7, 2020
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