The Ritual to Beauty
La belleza ritual
USA // 2020 // Documentary // LOS SHORTS
PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE
LOLA AWARD NOMINEE
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.
Director: Shenny De Los Angeles, Maria Marrone
Producer: Shenny De Los Angeles
Amyra Leon as the Voice of Yemaya and Composer of the film.
Documentary / Experimental
English & Spanish with English subtitles
14 minutes
Screening as part the of LOLA AWARD Shorts Block.