Baby/Girls

Teen birth rates in America’s Heartland are among the highest in the nation. And in the wake of the landmark Dobbs decision, a Christian maternity home in Arkansas becomes a crossroads in the lives of three pregnant teenagers. Filmed over two years with intimate verite access, baby/girls follows Olivia, Grace and Ariana as they give birth and attempt to break the cycle of poverty, addiction, and abuse that has marked their own childhoods. With rare proximity and emotional clarity, baby/girls offers a powerful portrait of young women coming of age in a place where choice, faith, and generational traumas collide. This feature documentary premiered at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX.

Company:

Latchkey Films and Maybe? Productions

Credits:

Directors: Alyse Walsh and Jackie Jesko

Producers: Melissa Leardi, Alex Waterfield, Kelly Rohrbach Walton

Executive Producer: Nick Capote

These are, at their core, deeply moving stories of women made to suffer quietly across multiple generations, thanks to a cultural war that was lost long before the Dobbs decision…
“It’s a sobering, heartbreaking story of young motherhood”
“a delightfully nuanced, achingly human film”
Past Work
Latchkey Films