Olympian-turned-filmmaker Savanah Leaf sat down with Mashable UK Editor Shannon Connellan to talk about her debut feature Earth Mama.
“I challenge people to walk beside Gia and experience her world as she’s going through it in this film,” Leaf said.
The A24 film follows young single mother Gia (Tia Nomore) as she navigates through pregnancy while fighting for custody of her children against a dehumanising foster care system.
Notably, Leaf uses poetic surrealism to “tap into what it feels like to be in [Gia’s] body – connecting to her baby, as well as her ancestors and the lineage of Black women that came before her.”
How to watch: Earth Mama is now in cinemas in the UK and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S.
