Aisha Johnson, a young black girl who epitomizes “black girl magic,” is one of four city-wide finalists for a prestigious college scholarship. In order to win the award, Aisha must outperform the other candidates. Under normal circumstances, these things would prove easy for Aisha, whose academic history has shown nothing but excellence. But these aren’t normal circumstances. Aisha’s world is turned upside down when she reports on the school’s resident “it girls,” for smoking weed in the bathroom at school. Aisha is targeted for being a “snitch.” She must learn not only to navigate the challenging obstacles but to survive while keeping her eyes on the prize.
Thato R. Mwosa is an illustrator, screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. Her award-winning films have been broadcast nationally and internationally. Thato won the “Emerging Filmmaker Award'' at the 2005 Roxbury Film Festival for her film, “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me." She has made several short documentaries, one of them, “An African in America,” was screened at the Pan African Sweet Mother Conference held at Harvard University in early 2006. Thato’s third film, “The Day Of My Wedding,” was selected for broadcast on The Best Shorts program on BET (Black Entertainment Television). In 2006, Thato wrote and directed an international TV show, Ya Ma’Afrika, which was nationally and internationally broadcast on a Comcast channel Afrotainment.
Thato’s first feature film, Memoirs of a Black Girl, premiered at the 2021 Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival. It was also selected for the 2021 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and the 2021 UN Women’s Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival. Thato has been selected for the 2021 Company One’s Playlab Circuit Volt Playwriting Lab. She was a finalist for the 2019 Mass Cultural Art Fellowship in the Dramatic Writing category. Thato has a dual degree in TV/Film Production and Marketing/Advertising Communications from Emerson College and an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University.
