This beautiful, elegiac short film by Savanah Leaf is a video poem. “The Ayes Have It” was written by Tiana Clark and speaks about being a mixed race woman in the American South married to a white man. How do our perceptions of race shape our judgements and our behavior? We can all do better.
“For Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin and every family denied justice
A FILM BY
Savanah Leaf
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Todd Boss, Egg Creative, Claire McGirr
PRODUCER
Edward Freeman
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Joel Honeywell
EDITOR
Pete Fullarton
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Stink Films
“The Ayes Have It,” a poem by Tiana Clark. ©2012 Tiana Clark. Used by permission. This poem first appeared in Raven Chronicles.”