![]() Mwosa also tapped into almost all Boston talent for the crew, cast and soundtrack. “We knew how we wanted to capture Roxbury and we are deliberate about how we wanted to capture it because it's such a beautiful place.” She says she and cinematographer John Oluwole ADEkoje worked together to decide exactly what to include. Scenes take place inside Dudley Café and Frugal Bookstore. boulevards, as the backdrop for the teens’ lives. Mwosa and her team used Roxbury’s bold murals, tree-lined streets and other recognizable landmarks, like signs for Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. She makes mistakes and, you know, she has her problems too,” says Tyler. “She's not just this goody two-shoes, perfect girl. ![]() #A night at the roxbury beautiful life movie#Khai Tyler says she thinks the movie captures the high school tension of “people trying to fit in and people trying to figure out who they are.” A few “mean” girls stir up trouble for Aisha but Tyler says there’s more to those characters than being mean. Khai Tyler (left) and Carolina Soto in Thato Rantao Mwosa's film "Memoirs of a Black Girl." (Courtesy) Through the course of the movie, each has their own challenge to overcome. The friends lean on each other, even if it means skipping class. Mwosa’s script balances the goofiness of being a kid with some serious obstacles. She and her best friends, Marcus (Nick Walker) and Marisa (Carolina Soto), test each other with vocabulary words in a game that Mwosa says she played in her youth.īut Aisha faces a tough decision that puts her future at risk. In the movie, the main character, Aisha (Khai Tyler), stresses over earning high SAT scores and competing for a scholarship. It plays the festival’s opening night with an in-person screening at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. “I decided to write one to celebrate my students, to honor them and say, ‘I see you. But she returns to RoxFilm with her first feature film called “ Memoirs of a Black Girl” about a motivated high school senior from Roxbury. In 2005, the Roxbury International Film Festival (RoxFilm) gave Mwosa its Emerging Filmmaker Award for her short film “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me.” Since then, she’s made other short fiction and a documentary. She’s lived in the Boston area for almost 25 years. Enough so that she decided to study filmmaking in the United States, Boston in fact. Television shows like “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and “The Cosby Show” fascinated Mwosa while growing up in Botswana. “That's when it dawned to me that they are really looking for themselves because that was important to me when I first started to see Black people on television, especially in America,” says the filmmaker. While teaching filmmaking at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Roxbury, Thato Rantao Mwosa says she had a hard time finding films that drew her students in. Khai Tyler in Thato Rantao Mwosa's film "Memoirs of a Black Girl." (Courtesy) This article is more than 1 year old. ![]()
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