BIRTH FROM THE EARTH

Up against a broken medical system, home birth midwife and educator Nubia Martin is a visionary leader in the Birth Justice movement working tirelessly to create more opportunities and empower BIPOC mothers and families to be able to safely give birth at home.

This inspiring and insightful documentary features Nubia Earth Martin, the founder of Birth From the Earth, a non-profit, dedicated to making home birth safe, sacred, and accessible to those who need it the most.   As a midwife and educator, Nubia has made it her mission to address maternal health disparities that negatively impact BIPOC women, mothers, babies, and their families. Her commitment to creating equity, quality, and love through her birthing center has offered hundreds of women an alternative to the broken for-profit medical system. The film also features mothers and partners empowering home birth experiences and intimate photos and videos documenting the magical side of birthing at home. 

All of the families and mothers in the film requested to be featured, as a way to visually share their birth stories.  We hear so many negative stories and continuous news coverage of how Black mothers are dying, and that birth is dangerous and scary.  The people who contributed to the film all had a desire to share a different perspective– one of our foremothers and great-grandmothers who all successfully brought forth life in a beautiful way, so that we– their descendants, would be able to uplift these stories present day.  Full consent was obtained by all, and throughout the editing process, those featured in the film were consulted for feedback and to ensure that their stories were being shared accurately, and their images were being used with integrity.

The film was funded by Hudy’s community content fund and is available to watch for free. To organize a community screening contact director, Katy Mejia.