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Hair Love

Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr., Bruce W. Smith · USA · Family / Drama / Animation · 7 min · 121M views
With Issa Rae, from Barbie

Directed by Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr., Bruce W. Smith · Starring Issa Rae · 2019

A father attempts to style his young daughter's hair for the first time, with help from her mother's tutorial videos.

An Oscar-winning, heartwarming celebration of Black fatherhood and natural hair.

Hair Love, an Oscar®-winning animated short film from Matthew A. Cherry, tells the heartfelt story of an African American father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.

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