Private Project

Q.U.E.E.N.

Imani, a teenage girl with a troubled past, must overcome her biggest fear by using her musical gift of rapping to transform her life and find healing.

  • Brittany "B.Monét" Fennell
    Writer
    Q.U.E.E.N., Eve, 701, Cookie the Cow + Pookie the Penguin
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay, Television Script
  • Genres:
    Coming of Age, Hip Hop, African American, Latino, Urban, Female Protagonist
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Glamour and Girlgaze #NewView Film Competition Winner
  • Women in Film Mini Upfronts
  • First Time Female Filmmakers Contest with Women and Hollywood
  • 2017 Horizon Award Winner at Sundance Film Festival
Writer Biography - Brittany "B.Monét" Fennell

B.Monét is a writer/director who graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in English. She hails from Silver Spring, Maryland and holds an MFA from New York University in Film and Television with a concentration in writing and directing.

Her award-winning short film Q.U.E.E.N. has screened at over a dozen of festivals including Cannes Short Film Corner and premiered on Magic Johnson's channel ASPiRE. Additionally, she was a runner-up in the First Time Female Filmmakers Contest with Women and Hollywood.

She was also named the 2017 Horizon Award winner through Cassian Elwes, Christine Vachon and Lynette Howell - Taylor at the Sundance Film Festival and a recipient of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation grant and a directing fellow for Film Independent's residency program Project Involve.

Additionally, she is one of the winners for the #NewView film competition with Glamour and Girlgaze which champions the voices of female filmmakers and one of the filmmakers in the Tisch Other Showcase that focuses on diverse artists whose voices are underrepresented in the television industry.

Most recently, B.Monét was selected as one of the finalists in the Women in Film Mini Upfronts Program for her first feature film Q.U.E.E.N.

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Writer Statement

Q.U.E.E.N. explores the themes of identity, sexuality, abuse, expression, and more importantly healing. Q.U.E.E.N. follows a sixteen-year old teenager named Imani who struggles to find her voice. Through the different relationships with her mother, best friend Zoe, and teacher Ms. Visovsky, we are entranced inside of Imani’s interior world.

I want a different reality for Imani. Although her past is a little different than mine, I strongly believe in young girls and women realizing that they are more than painful experiences they too, can claim a different trajectory for their lives.

This story inspires me because I wholeheartedly believe in women and young girls telling their stories. It is important to me that men, children, but especially, women and young girls, understand the importance of releasing their pain and living out their life’s purpose.