Vimbai’s Screenplays

  • The Talented Tenth

    Log line: In the summer of 1953, two best friends from different socioeconomic backgrounds are chosen to be debutantes at a prestigious cotillion. Together they must navigate the complex world of the Black elite, while also juggling budding careers and romance.

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  • The Carlyles

    Log line: During the Reconstruction Era, a Black elite family and their servants must navigate their ever changing social and political spheres to find love, purpose and belonging, after the Patriarch becomes the first Black House of Representative in America.

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  • Hawthorn

    Log line: Three young Black women experience social, romantic, and academic trials and tribulations during their freshman year at a predominately white, all-women's college in 1954.

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  • Lagos

    Log line: In 1895, an adopted young African woman plagued with mysterious seizures travels back to Lagos with her English chaperone to heal. While in Lagos, she’s confronted with the horrors of colonialism, and with the help of her new friends, she attempts to unlearn the racism she’s internalized.

    Award: Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarter-Finalist

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  • The Restart

    Log line: After a rule-following college graduate is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, she decides to finally live life on her own terms before seeking an end of life procedure.

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  • The Forgotten Ones

    Log line: In the late 1950s, a young Black woman is wrongly committed to an insane asylum. She must fight for survival against a sadistic psychiatrist intent on abusing his patients.

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