Sweet Tooth

2024

Runtime: 13 minutes and 46 seconds

Produced by: Sea, Simon Armstrong, and Shemaya Saffiya

Written + Directed by: Sea

Starring: Maya Scott, Nina Scott, Sierra Morris, Khalil Gamble, and Tierra Burke

Cinematography by: Kiara Danae Mangum

Edited by: Kiara Danae Mangum & Joseph Macharia


Sunny, a bright child, seeks to buy an ice cream cone. When her parents are not able to help her, she turns to someone else.

In soliciting help from the tooth fairy, Sunny hopes that her earnings can be enough. The greedy tooth fairy, however, has other plans.

Sweet Tooth is a folkloric nightmare that explores the strain of poverty on the parent- child relationship as well as the fragmentation of self that Black girls experience in the pursuit of joy and pleasure.