6/28/2023 0 Comments Hair love matthew cherry![]() “To see this project go from a Kickstarter campaign to the big screen is truly a dream come true. And it debuted big, in theaters nationally, alongside Sony’s Angry Birds Movie 2. After almost two years in production, the short was ready to debut. It was clear that we weren’t the only ones loving Hair Love. ![]() And we’re trying to make them feel normal and have a little Black girl with maybe kinky hair feel like she’s represented,” he told Because Of Them We Can.Ĭherry went on to launch a Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $300,000, surpassing the initial goal of $75,000 and Cherry’s stretch goal of $200,000, setting a new record for short film fundraising on the site. ![]() "Media is impressionable and when little kids see shows, movies and magazines and don’t see people who look like them in a heroic place or complex place or don’t see themselves at all it makes them seem abnormal or an exception to the rule. At the time, Cherry said that his focus was representation, and he wanted to make sure that Black fathers and their daughters were the focus in his film. ![]() The NFL player turned filmmaker was on a mission to highlight the relationship between Black fathers and daughters in a short film, inspired by viral videos of fathers doing their daughters’ hair. We first wrote about Cherry and his budding animated short in 2017. Hair Love, the popular children’s book turned animated short by former NFL player, Matthew Cherry, gets nominated for an Oscar, USA Today reports. ![]()
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