Baby Mamas: The Movie – Four women share all their experiences on the joys and woes of being single Moms, while still searching for true love.
Baby Mamas, the first ever South African film to show in Nigeria is set to premiere in Lagos on the 1st of March, 2019 at all Filmhouse Cinemas' locations.
Baby Mamas follows the daily lives, loves, and drama of four professional women – who are all in different stages of their own real baby mama drama. The term "Baby Mamas" is a term that has now been permanently included in pop culture and colloquial language to mean a mother who is not married to her child's father or is not currently involved with her child's father. As the four women explore the many dynamics of being baby mamas, they open themselves up to pain, healing, sorrow, joy, friendship and indeed, love.
The writers and director of the movie, both South African women (Stephina Zwane and Salamina Mosese) are passionate about changing the narrative! As young black women, they are able to bring to the forefront topics in their films that are relevant to society, in a fun and unique way, and in this way, they have developed into storytellers who are bringing to the forefront stories that are both entertaining, thought-provoking and compelling.
These various themes explored in the film thus birth incredibly honest and vulnerable performances that are really relatable, heartwarming and quite moving.
This film comes at just the right time because of the many conversations in recent times, and the director of the film believes we need to take control of the narrative!
This film highlights the fact that none of us are really that different; we generally go through the same things and it's important that we remember to connect as human beings and be kind to one another for we are all struggling to make it through each day.
She says of the film's four female lead characters. "I'm tired of images that don't celebrate me as an African, and instead shows me constantly lacking and struggling. This is not all that we are".