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From the Olympics to the big screen, former Team GB volleyball player Savanah Leaf has won critical acclaim for her first feature film at Sundance - and this week she also picked up 'best debut director' at the British Independent Film Awards.
Jaclyn Martinez/A24Three of the year’s most lauded films, each written and directed by Black women, expose the beauty and heartbreak of being a Black mother in America. In Savannah Leaf’s gut-wrenching Earth Mama, a recovering drug addict weighs the future of her unborn child while trying to retrieve her two children from the foster-care system. In a refreshing approach, Leaf explores the precarious lives of poor, young mothers without making a spectacle out of these women’s hardships. There’s a