That includes the long-running Who’s Your Mama celebration in Kent, hosted by Kent’s Standing Rock Cultural Arts. It kicks ...

Presented by MoMA and Film at Lincoln Center, the annual festival will take place in New York City from March 29 to April 9. In total, the festival boasts 27 features and 11 short films, with ...

Former Olympic volleyball player turned director Savanah Leaf helms this tender feature about a pregnant mother trying to regain custody of her kids. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Savanah ...

The voice off camera poses an uncomfortably blunt question to a woman seated in a chair near the front of a sterile, functional room. “Why should we care that you make it?” That remark opens “Earth ...

Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have set Savanah Leaf’s Earth Mama and Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s Sundance Special Jury Award winner Mutt, both debut features, as opening and closing ...

A24 is releasing the buzzy project in theaters on July 7. Savanah Leaf’s directorial debut, which follows a single mother struggling to navigate the welfare state with her third child on the way, was ...

Oakland filmmaker Savanah Leaf brings power and poetry to her feature directing debut, “Earth Mama,” which opens exclusively at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco on July 7. Shot largely in Oakland, ...

There are no easy answers in this eye-opening portrait of a Black woman who's already lost two kids to the foster system and is fighting for the fate of the unborn girl she's carrying. The system is ...

In Savanah Leaf’s moving, intimate feature debut, a pregnant woman tries to regain custody of her two children in foster care. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...