A Becoming Love Project Film
Trailer Coming Soon

THE WAY
BACK HOME

WITH ERICKA ALEXIS · TERRY HENRY · KADEEM ISAIAH · CHANTRESS WILLIAMS · CAMAY MCCOLLUM · WIL COOKS · SHAWN FRANCIS WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY TAMALA BALDWIN DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY BRIAN BRADLEY PRODUCED BY BRITTANY C. GOODEN · ALPHONSO HAYWARD · DR. DIA JONES · GERRI ALDRIDGE · RACHELLE LE BLANC EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS TAMALA BALDWIN · PENNI MALLOY-HARPER, RN · MILLIE HABTEMARIAM IN ASSOCIATION WITH SOUL KISSES PRODUCTIONS
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A Film By
Becoming Love Project
Status
In Post-Production
Private Screening
Nov 14, 2026
STORY

Brilliant attorney and classically trained cellist Diana Washington has spent her entire life building the kind of success that makes people stay.

But when a panic attack brings her to her knees in her perfectly curated loft, everything she has been outrunning finally catches up to her.

She returns home to the Southern town she left behind, expecting to recover quietly. Instead she finds the thing she has been running from all along: a mother who loves her fiercely but has never learned to love her freely, and a version of herself she abandoned decades ago.

Through music, family, and the painful grace of telling the truth, Diana must reckon with the belief she has carried since childhood: that she is only worth loving if she keeps performing.

"The life she nearly destroyed was never the one worth saving."
Introducing
Ericka Alexis
as Diana Washington
The Lead

A woman who kept it together for everyone but herself.

Ericka Alexis leads the film as Diana, a role that asks her to move between the armor of a high-powered attorney and the unguarded ache of a daughter who never learned she was enough without the accolades.

"She plays Diana like someone re-learning how to breathe out loud."
The Cast

The faces of
the story.

Seasoned actors and first-time performers, many discovered through our Youth Storytelling Program, brought together to bring this story to the screen.

Beverly
Terry Henry
as Beverly
Gabriel
Kadeem Isaiah
as Gabriel
Candy
Chantress Williams
as Candy
Zora
Camay McCollum
as Zora
Joe
Wil Cooks
as Joe
James
Shawn Francis
as James
IMDb See Full Cast and Crew on IMDb (Coming Soon)

About the director

Tamala Baldwin is the Founder and Chair of Becoming Love Project, a nonprofit that uses storytelling and film to help young adults navigating housing instability and life transitions build futures.

The Way Back Home is her second feature as writer and director. Her first, Blended Christmas, aired on Paramount+ starring Jennifer Freeman, Victoria Rowell, and Anthony Dalton.

Her work centers identity, healing, and the cost of performing strength, themes drawn as much from her own life as from the young people BLP serves.

Tamala Baldwin
From the Film

A first look.

Diana with the cello
In conversation
Restaurant scene
Diana at home
Diana and Gabriel
James

The story screens this fall.

Private Screening · Heart Awards & Fundraising Gala · Nov 14, 2026 · The Artisan at Tannery Row, Buford, GA