SEASON 1
“OUT OF OUR HEADS” & “BELLA”
For many Americans, hair is not a simple matter. It can shape our identities or it can challenge the very notion of how we define beauty. Hair is a multi-million dollar industry. It can be political. OUR TIME filmmakers Shaienne Knox and Isabella Recca examine the role hair plays in their own lives and communities.
RUN TIME (26:40)
In OUR OF OUR HEADS, 16-year-old Knox explores the ways in which African American girls and women style their hair, offering robust racial observations regarding weave and relaxed hair as commodities that hew to white standards of beauty. By interviewing her mother, grandmother and friends, Knox reveals personal, nuanced, and sometimes blistering views on what comprises “good hair” among African Americans.
In BELLA, 17-year-old Isabella Recca tests her own teenaged girl-beauty standards by shaving her head. Without an important signifier of femininity and status among white girls her age, she is forced to confront how much power to vest in societal definitions of beauty and self worth.
SERIES INFO
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ABOUT THE SERIES
OUR TIME is produced by the Youth Documentary Academy (YDA) using films directed by students of our Summer film production program. The stories told by our filmmakers offer fresh and unvarnished perspectives on universal social issues. OUR TIME has become a go-to for educators and families to acquire youth-generated content with a strong perspective. We began broadcasting on Rocky Mountain PBS in October 2019.
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To support the local engagement of the series, and to fund additional engagement to over 40 national markets, we are seeking sponsorships. With $50,000 we will be able to engage a national market. Support beyond this amount will allow us to expand both campaigns and to begin production for OUR TIME Season 2.
