Valencia

Logline: A fraudulent influencer must confront the facade she’s created when she receives a bomb and set of instructions while live-streaming herself opening fanmail.

Aaliyah Scott is a 24-year-old influencer. One day, while going through fanmail on a live-stream, she opens a package containing a bomb and a set of instructions. Aaliyah has 15 minutes to come clean and reveal all the tricks behind her #blackgirlmagic, or the bomb will detonate. Will Aaliyah ruin her reputation and destroy all she’s built? Time is ticking and the world is watching.

  • Imani Vaughn-Jones
    Writer
    A Single F*cking Retweet, Well-Intentioned White People
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay, Short Script
  • Genres:
    Thriller, Suspense, Short film, Short
  • Number of Pages:
    11
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Writer Biography - Imani Vaughn-Jones


Imani Vaughn-Jones is an actress and writer thriving in Atlanta, GA with her husband Daniel and their fur son, Walter. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and English with a concentration in screenwriting from Southern New Hampshire University. Her 10-minute digital play 'A Single F*cking Retweet' was produced by Purdue University as part of their Theatre, Virtually festival. Her play 'Well-Intentioned White People' was featured as part of the Graham Martin Unexpected Play Festival and an official selection for the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival 2021. She was recently named part of the inaugural class of Dihvinely Konnecked fellows with Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre and has been hired to mentor young playwrights as an associate artist with Kennesaw State University.

Her work focuses on the themes of race, power, trust, and relationships. She seeks to both write and perform in works that bring honest yet rarely depicted truths to the stage and screen.

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Writer Statement

I come from a long line of storytellers. As such, I tell stories because it's all I've ever known. As a writer, I create work that engages with the themes of race, power, trust, and relationships. I enjoy playing with structure and directly challenging what we've come to hold as the standard for storytelling. My work explores Blackness from all angles, experimenting with both the heightened and the mundane. Through this exploration, I illuminate the ways in which all Blackness is Black excellence, as we've survived in a world that has made it abundantly clear it would prefer if we didn't.