Thato Rantao Mwosa

Thato R. Mwosa is an award-winning illustrator, screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. Her films have been broadcast nationally and internationally. Thato's first feature film, Memoirs of a Black Girl, premiered at the 2021 Boston Globe's Black History Month Film Festival and it won Best Feature Film award at the 2021 Hamilton Black Film Festival and the 2021 Roxbury International Film Festival (RIFF). Additionally, Thato won Best Feature Director at the 2021 Hamilton Film Festival. In 2021, Thato was selected for Company One's Playlab Circuit Volt Playwriting Lab. She was a finalist for the 2019 Mass Cultural Art Fellowship in the Dramatic Writing category. Thato's second feature script, A Blue Dawn, is a quarter-finalist for The Academy Nicholl Fellowship. It is also a semi-finalist for The Writer's Lab. Thato has a dual degree in TV/Film Production and Marketing/Advertising Communications from Emerson College and an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University. She currently serves on the boards of Women in Film New England, Roxbury Community College Broadcasting Program, and Boston Neighborhood Network in Boston. Thato is a film instructor at Brookline High School in Brookline and Emerson College.