The Ritual to Beauty
The Ritual to Beauty
The Ritual to Beauty info
This film was available from 6 - 22 January 2023 as part of the 2nd AoDR Festival.
This film was available from 6 - 22 January 2023 as part of the 2nd AoDR Festival.
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Year
2020
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Location
United States
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Directors
Shenny de Los Angeles, Maria Marrone
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Writer
Shenny de Los Angeles
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Other cast & crew
Cast: Shenny De Los Angeles, Eugenia Marina Belliard Rojas, Cheny Bright, Amyra Leon
Cinematographer and Editor: Maria Marrone
Original Music: Amyra Leon
Sound Design: Jose Escobar
Executive Producer: Geeta Gandbhir; Color: Peter Pascucci
Production Assistant: Khadejah Khan
Special Thanks: Jill’s Natural Hair Care Studio, Osceola County School for the Arts, Mabou Mines SUITE/Space, Peggy Robles-Alvarado; Voices of Chorus: Ashley Victoria Scott, Camila Perez Santiago, Emily Waters, Karen Kandel, Larissa Marthe Jeanniton
Distributor: The New Yorker, United States -
Duration
14 minutes
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Three generations of Dominican women explore their relationship to relaxing their hair. By conjuring the magic of water and the power of her ancestors, a daughter uses spoken word poetry as an incantation to break the generational curse that has blocked the women in her family from locating where joy lives inside the body.