Thato Rantao Mwosa is a Botswana-American writer-director, illustrator, playwright, educator, and game inventor.
Mwosa's first film ''Don't Leave Me'' was shown at the New York Short Film Festival. Her second film, ''Don't Tell Me You Love Me'', was an adaptation of a poem by a Swazi spoken word artist, Deslisile. The film portrayed the
domestic violence
Domestic violence (also known as domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation. ''Domestic violence'' is often used as a synonym for ''intimate partner ...
accompanying the demise of a marriage. It won the 'Best Emerging Film Maker' award at the 7th
Roxbury Film Festival
The Roxbury International Film Festival (RoxFilm; formerly known as “Dudley Film Festival”) is the largest film festival in New England that celebrates people of color. RoxFilm was founded in 1998 and holds both an annual film festival and year ...
in 2005.
Her film ''The Day of My Wedding'' was the official selection of BETJ now
BET Her
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The channel originally launched ...
Best Shorts Program.
Her TV series ''Ya M'Afrika'', screened on the Gabonese satellite channel
3A Telesud, was a fictional drama series following the lives of four African women living as housemates in
Queens, New York
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. Her 2011 documentary ''A Tribe of Women'' followed women working for peace in
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
.
Celebrating the “Tribe of Women” in Our Lives
United Nations Association of Greater Boston, March 17, 2011.
Mwosa's feature narrative film ''Memoirs of a Black Girl'' will be released in 2021. It is the official selection of the Toronto International Women Film Festival.
Filmography
* ''Don't Leave Me'', 2005. Short film.
* ''Don't Tell Me You Love Me'', 2005. Short film
* ''The Day of My Wedding'', 2007
* ''Ya M'Afrika'', 2007. TV show.
* ''An African in America'', 2008
* ''Rapping for Life'', 2009
* ''A Tribe of Women'', 2011. Documentary.
* ''Memoirs of a Black Girl'', 2021. Feature Narrative Film
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Botswana film directors