Hair Love received generally positive reviews and won Best Animated Short Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.

A spin-off TV series titled Young Love was ordered by Max in July 2020 and premiered on September 21, 2023.

[8] He co-directed the film with Everett Downing and Bruce W. Smith, with Peter Ramsey and Pixar animator Frank Abney serving as executive producers.

[6] On March 20, 2019, Sony Pictures Animation announced that they had picked up Hair Love, which was slated to be released theatrically later that year.

[10] Hair Love was first shown in theaters alongside The Angry Birds Movie 2 on August 14, 2019,[11] and was uploaded to YouTube four months later on December 5.