The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2004)
What happens when a group of hairdressers from America travel to Kabul with the intention of telling Afghan women how to do hair and makeup? This engaging, optimistic documentary tracks a unique development project: a shiny new beauty school, funded in part by beauty-industry mainstays, which sets out to teach the latest cutting, coloring, and perming techniques to practicing and aspiring Afghan hairdressers and beauticians. The American teachers, all volunteers, include three Afghan-Americans returning home for the first time in over twenty years. The Beauty Academy of Kabul offers a rare glimpse into Afghan women’s lives, and documents the poignant and often humorous process through which women with very different experiences of life come to learn about one another.
Director: Liz Mermin
| Editing | Liz Mermin | Editor |
| Production | Linda Saetre | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Ahmad Zahir | Music |
| Production | Nick Fraser | Executive Producer |
| Production | Nigel Noble | Producer |
| Production | Liz Mermin | Producer |
| Directing | Liz Mermin | Director |
| Production | Marcella Steingart | Producer |
| Production | Sheri Levine | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Lynda Hall | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Anna Rieke | Sound Recordist |
