Director Savanah Leaf and star Tia Nomore, an Oakland rapper, team on a powerful East Bay film about motherhood.
Director Savannah Leaf, left, and rapper/actor Tia Nomore, teamed on the Oakland;-set movie “Earth Mama,” which drew raves at the Sundance Film Festival and opens in theaters July 7.The voice off camera poses an uncomfortably blunt question to a woman seated in a chair near the front of a sterile, functional room.That remark opens “Earth Mama,” and then threads its way through every delicate, insightful scene in the feature film debut from director and former Oakland resident Savanah Leaf.
The opening line sprung from an unscripted source; they are words spoken by a single mother named Tiffany who appeared in a 2020 documentary made by Leaf and actor Taylor Russell titled “The Heart Still Hums.” The widely praised 29-minute film similarly focuses on the hardships of a five Sacramento-area single moms as they confront the specter of homelessness, addiction and raising children.
“Thinking about it as a film, so many audiences would not want to watch this movie — about a Black woman going through tough ,” she said. “Like they’re not going to watch it or they don’t feel like they can empathize with this person or whatever it is. … For me, there’s another layer to what she’s saying. It’s not just really specific and grounded in her own life.”
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