Maui Film Festival - FirstLight: Academy Screenings on Maui

FIRSTLIGHT FILM DESCRIPTIONS

Good Hair
Wednesday, December 23 at 2:00pm

Director: Jeff Stilson
Cast: Jere Chris Rock, Maya Angelou, Warren Berry, Eric Bias, Sheila Bridges, Marvet Britto, A’Lelia Bundles, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Elgin Charles, Rhonda Cowan, Joe Dudley, Eunice Dudley, Eve, Veronica Forbes, Melyssa Ford, Meagan Good, Vijay Madupali Gupta, Andre Harrell, Ice-T, Sarah Jones, Scott Julion, KRS-One, Lauren London, Nia Long, Melanye MacLin-Carroll, Jailyn Minor, Paul Mooney, Willie Morrow, Valerie Price, Salli Richardson, Salt-n-Pepa, Al Sharpton, Raven Symone, Tracie Thoms, T-Pain.

An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of the black community. Director Jeff Stilson follows Chris Rock on this raucous adventure prompted by Rock's daughter approaching him and asking, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" Haircare professionals, beautyshop and barbershop patrons, as well as celebrities including Ice-T, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Dr. Maya Angelou, Salt n Pepa, Eve and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter's question. (PG-13/96 min.) 

Print Courtesy Roadside Attractions.

Proving that no subject is too thin to yield a good documentary, "Good Hair" is a raucous and rigorous inquiry into the subject of African-American hair -- the stigmas, the secrets, the shocking price of maintenance -- that gets at universal but rarely discussed truths about black femininity. Chris Rock is in typically sharp but unusually sensitive form in this fresh, funny and altogether fascinating project —Justin Chang, Variety



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