Writing
Viva By 35
Feature
genre:
Romantic Comedy
synopsis:
What does it mean to live a life?
Thirty-four year-old single and childless Viva Monero learns of her father’s terminal illness. Panicked, she dives into fatalistic thinking about her own mortality. In an attempt to regain some control of the unraveling around her, she decides to find a husband-worthy man and have a child, by 35.
The only snag in her best laid plans? She’s gone and fallen in love with a man who absolutely, will not, under no circumstances, get married (now).
Set in Denver, Colorado and Croydon, London.
Rolly Polly
TV
genre:
Comedy, half-hour
synopsis:
It’s 1999. Beyoncé is still part of the greatest triad of all time. Seventeen-year-old Britney Spears is hiking eyebrows and skirts across the world with salacious lyrics inspiring rebellion and titillation in other seventeen-year-olds.
In the midst of all this stimulation, all the way in Nairobi, Kenya, Polly Tayebwa spends her school days mostly mute, and nights dancing to the latest songs in front of her bedroom mirror. Long-lost Auntie and Eternal Cool Gal, Zelda Jenkins, 43, arrives at her family’s doorstep to collect Polly and return to Los Angeles where Polly will enroll in a Performing Arts high school. Building a bond across generations is going to take an equal amount of pain and gain. The good thing? Polly and Zelda have something to teach each other.
Set in Los Angeles and Nairobi.
Sis
Feature
genre:
Action-Thriller
synopsis:
Whoever said let bygones be bygones clearly never met Tendo and Nagawa, two estranged half-sisters on the opposite ends of their 20s, struggling to move past their father’s 12-year-old assassination incident.
When an unlikely tip reveals the top murder suspect, the sisters agree to a truce in order to enact revenge. Their journey takes them from frenetic downtown Kampala all the way to the serene shores of Lamu.
Set in Uganda and Kenya.