Hair Love
Creator Matthew A. Cherry said he was mulling the idea for the short for a couple of years. He found the confidence to move forward with it after seeing online videos of black fathers interacting with their children go viral - particularly videos of dads helping daughters with their hair.,Featured in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: Garfieldelodeon (2019),Evidently, there's a demand out there for this sort of movie, as it was easily financed through a Kickstarter campaign on its way to being awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. The business of the father doing his daughter's hair for the first time, along with the judgmental cat, is amusing and cute, and even what I would otherwise consider manipulative sap regarding the sick mother and her resulting baldness figures into the theme of appreciation of one's image.

The picture coincides with increased media attention and new laws banning discrimination against natural, afro-textured hair. Appropriately, then, "Hair Love" concerns overcoming aversion to the protein filaments (at one point, the man imagines he's fighting the girl's tangles in a boxing ring) and appreciating its beauty, which is supported by some nice-looking animation. I also appreciate that the message is dual layered with the short help videos on hair within the 6-minutes movie about the same thing.,