A little girl, Zuri, bounds out of bed, excited to get ready for a very special visit. She wants to make sure her hair is perfect, just like her mom taught her. But, things dont go exactly as planned.

Enter Dad. Will he be able to transform Zuris voluminous hair into the style shes longing for?

To find out, youll need to watch Hair Love , the wonderful animated short that won an Oscar Sunday for Best Animated Short Film. The film has a Canadian connection: Vancouvers Pearl Low worked on the project as a story artist , and helped bring Zuri and her Black-hair story to life.

Low literally drew on her own experience as a Chinese-Jamaican Canadian kid growing up with a Chinese single mom who didnt know how to handle curly hair, just like Zuris dad.

There are a lot of parallels in the story and in my life, Low told HuffPost Canada. While watching the [finished] film I was like, Aww thats me!