When Onyx Collective president Tara Duncan and producer Michaela Angela Davis asked Black, Brown and woman-owned production companyto take on the project, founding partners Raeshem Nijhon, Nicole Galoski and Carri Twigg said they recognized the “ripeness” of this story and jumped at the opportunity.
“While we each have our own specific story story, we knew that with ‘Hair Tales,’ there was something universal and something communal that we could really tell through this series and that it hadn’t gotten the love or the shine that it deserves,” says Twigg. “Like all the ways that our hair or this portal into a Black woman’s experience in this country, and in the world, hadn’t really gotten it’s due on the screen.
“It was a response to wanting to both create stories that I felt like we’re missing out in the world, but also create a workflow and a process and a place in a community for filmmakers and creators of color and women,” said Nijhon, adding, “It’s not just about the things that we were creating. It’s also about how we were doing it.”