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Sweet Tooth

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.

  • Sea Mahsati
    Director
  • Sea Mahsati
    Writer
  • Sea Mahsati
    Producer
  • Simon Armstrong
    Producer
  • Shemaya Saffiya
    Producer
  • Maya Scott
    Key Cast
    "Sunny"
  • Nina Scott
    Key Cast
    "Olivia"
  • Sierra Morris
    Key Cast
    "Tooth Fairy"
  • Khalil Gamble
    Key Cast
    "Dad"
  • Tierra Burke
    Key Cast
    "Mom"
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 15, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    13,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States, United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Howard University
Director Biography - Sea Mahsati

Sea Mahsati is an international award-winning filmmaker and birth worker of Caribbean heritage. Their work blends myth and spirituality to tell stories of mourning, maternal inheritance, and self-possession, guided by Black feminist principles. Sea approaches filmmaking as ritual—shaping personal and ancestral memory into collective reflection. They are a 2024–2025 Baldwin for the Arts fellow, a 2024 Resisting Narratives of Erasure fellow with Visionary Justice StoryLab, and are currently developing their Howard University MFA thesis film.

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