Taylor Russell and Savanah Leaf Will Co-Direct A Doc Short ‘The Heart Still Hums’

The Escape Room Star is going behind the camera to codirect with her best friend Savanah Leaf. Taylor recently spoke to Variety about highlighting six women at two nonprofits, Her Health First and Chicks in Crisis, women working to assist them in getting “the help they need to raise their kids or help them find a foster family or an adoptive family.”

The short documentary is about women in Sacramento who are pregnant or young mothers who don’t have a lot of resources or who are on the street and addicted to drugs and need help.

Russell has foster brothers and Leaf has an adoptive sister who was found through one of the organizations. “It meant a lot to both of us to go back and help in the way that we could, which is to make a piece of art for them,” Russell said.