The opening of the film Earth Mama is probably one of the most striking you’ll see this awards season. A candid, unaffected monologue - it had me in tears within minutes, though it wasn’t the work of some Oscar-nominee but rather of a real woman who’d been cast because of her lived experience.
Within minutes the viewer is plunged into a taut world of systemic oppression and into the mind of a formidable new filmmaking talent: 30-year-old writer/ director Savanah Leaf.
