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How Bafta winner Savanah Leaf made one of the most striking films of the 2024 awards season

She’s the 30-year-old first time director who’s work is already being compared to Ken Loach. Now Bafta glory has arrived says Alexandra Jones

Evening Standard

Earth Mama review – Savanah Leaf’s outstanding debut about single motherhood

US rapper Tia Nomore excels as a woman facing an impossible situation in Leaf’s bleak yet defiant Bifa award-winning drama

The Guardian - UK

From Wonka to Nicki Minaj: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Timothée Chalomet stars in the eccentric chocolatier’s origin story, while the rapper finally releases the sequel album to her 2010 debut

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Earth Mama review – a piercingly emotional portrait of motherhood in difficult times

Director Savanah Leaf’s debut feature presents an honest picture of an intelligent and decent mum in recovery struggling to regain her life, played with natural flair by rapper Tia Nomore

The Guardian - UK

‘More athletes should do films!’ Savanah Leaf, the volleyball Olympian turned Ken Loach-style director

She turned to film after an injury and has now made her heartbreaking debut – about a woman fighting to get her kids out of foster care and keep her unborn child. So what is the young powerhouse going to conquer next?

The Guardian - UK

How Savanah Leaf and Tia Nomore personalized their ode to Black motherhood, 'Earth Mama'

LOS ANGELES — Writer-director Savanah Leaf never forgot how her life changed at 16, when she met her future sister's birth mother, a young woman not much older than herself.

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'Earth Mama,' Savanah Leaf's portrait of Black motherhood, is a quietly extraordinary debut

Early on in "Earth Mama," a quietly shattering first feature from writer-director Savanah Leaf, we find ourselves in a room with a Black woman named Gia (Tia Nomore) as she spends time with her young son, Trey (Ca'Ron Coleman). It's a drab, anonymous-looking room, with bare walls and a few…

Los Angeles Times

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‘It’s incredibly heavy’: behind a tough film about the US foster care system

In the raw and unflinching drama Earth Mama, Olympian-turned-director Savanah Leaf centres a woman fighting to get her kids out of an oppressive system

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