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.