But she returns to RoxFilm with her first feature film called “ Memoirs of a Black Girl” about a motivated high school senior from Roxbury. “I decided to write one to celebrate my students, to honor them and say, ‘I see you. It plays the festival’s opening night with an in-person screening at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In the movie, the main character, Aisha (Khai Tyler), stresses over earning high SAT scores and competing for a scholarship. 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. Mwosa’s script balances the goofiness of being a kid with some serious obstacles. The friends lean on each other, even if it means skipping class. 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. 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. #A night at the roxbury beautiful life movie# “She's not just this goody two-shoes, perfect girl. She makes mistakes and, you know, she has her problems too,” says Tyler. 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. boulevards, as the backdrop for the teens’ lives. Scenes take place inside Dudley Café and Frugal Bookstore. “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. Mwosa also tapped into almost all Boston talent for the crew, cast and soundtrack. #A night at the roxbury beautiful life movie#.