![]() When I initially wrote the script, it was kind of inspired by my imagination of what she was going through. And I remember meeting her birth mother, and just feeling - I felt very connected to her, even though I was - only met her a few times. When I was 16 years old, my mom adopted my sister. LEAF: The film was kind of inspired by my relationship to my own sister. What is your relationship to adoption in your own life? RASCOE: Gia does have some consideration of giving her third child up for adoption. So it's ultimately for her children, but it's also for herself because seeing her children do well, do better than maybe she did as a child, is something for herself as well. And you see that when she gets a visitation with her children here and there for a couple of hours a week, and she gets that kind of love back. She's also seeking love for herself through her children. I think, like, she has to sacrifice so much of herself for her children, you know. Or sometimes a person may do things that are beneficial to their children, but it may keep them apart from their child. A mother could sacrifice everything to keep her kids with her in her own care. RASCOE: This movie - like, it really deals with sacrifice. LEAF: And then also on top of that, it enables you to think it could be this, it could be that, and it could be any of my friends. Certain things, and then people will give you a break. So then that - it's, like, justifies the sympathy. RASCOE: So if people go, oh, well, that happened to her in the past, so that's why. LEAF: I was trying to think of, how can we make the audience feel with her during these, like, peak situations? How can we take people on that journey with her? And part of that is not giving an easy out - like, an easy, oh, yeah, this makes sense because this happened to her. We don't know really about her relationship with her family other than her sister. We don't see, like, when her children were taken away. So for me, I wanted to show how this mother is handling it all. And there's, like, this expectation to be a mother, to hold it all together, to be an incredible mother, a strong mother, even through so many financial difficulties, so many systems that are breaking families apart. You know, Black mothers are not just mothering their own kids, but oftentimes throughout history have been mothering other people's children as well. LEAF: I wanted to show how much pressure, just first of all, there is for Black mothers. What did you want to show about Black motherhood? And Gia is expected to figure this out without any help. And being a mother - Lord knows it requires a lot of resources and community and help. RASCOE: The main character, Gia, in the story - like, what really struck me about her is, like, here's this Black mother who has so few resources. ![]() Gia is played by Tia Nomore in the movie "Earth Mama," which was written, directed and produced by Savanah Leaf. Her two children were taken away by Child Protective Services, her prepaid phone is running out of credit and she's very pregnant. She's a mother of two who works for a portrait photographer helping stage perfect pictures of family life. The new movie "Earth Mama" tells the story of Gia.
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