![]() ![]() “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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