She Loves Me Not {Post-Production}
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
Romantic Comedy, Drama
When a Brooklyn-bred pistol reviews her non-committal love life amongst three suitors for her podcast, she discovers the cause and cure of her detachment from love - the estranged relationship between she and her mother... her original heartbreak.
She Loves Me Not {Post-Production}
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
Romantic Comedy, Drama
3 Campaigns | California, United States
63 supporters | followers
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$5,270
Goal: $6,000 for post-production
When a Brooklyn-bred pistol reviews her non-committal love life amongst three suitors for her podcast, she discovers the cause and cure of her detachment from love - the estranged relationship between she and her mother... her original heartbreak.
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About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
SHE LOVES ME NOT is a dramatic romcom that follows our sexy intellectual pistol, Xosha, as she uses the philosophies of historic Black women to guide her misshapen, non-committal love life for her weekly podcast. However, she’s to discover her progressive dating ideologies are an avoidant cover to the estranged relationship between she and her mother.
Her original heartbreak.
With a lineage of broken love, how do modern women end the generational curse
of broken hearts? What’s the new way to love?
2024 PRODUCTION
You may have heard the tragic news following our successful film shoot in 2024. Yes, the one where you joined our crowdfunding campaign to get this thing made! Then we shot it... right before losing the entire film in the offload process where files were transferred from the camera to the hard drive. We were devastated.
But, that isn’t where our story ends.
We took a little over year off to readjust our hearts and reinvigorate our spirits to do it all over again! To prove to you, our supporters, that we could! AND WE DID! The team worked silently and diligently to rebuild what YOU helped us accomplish the first time, to do it bigger and better the second time!
See our original campaign to get it made here!
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2026 PRODUCTION
We have successfully completed our re-shoot! Now, time to put it all together in post-production!
This is where you can join us again!
Photo Credit: Dwight James III
"This is a love story."
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WHY ME?
Because I’m sixteen years in the game.
With a features such as Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Grapevine TV, and Teen Vogue, my portfolio also includes developing an original pilot for Netflix, joining the 2025 Rideback RISE Circle cohort, writing for Keke Palmer and Revolt TV in partnership with Damn Write Originals, and developing the She Loves Me Not TV pilot in The Writer’s Colony, founded by no other than legendary Hollywood showrunner, Mara Brock Akil!
"I’m proud to be in community with (Latasha), stellar examples of writers who have the prowess to be
powerhouse showrunners, directors and leaders in the next iteration of our fast-changing industry.”
- Mara Brock Akil, The Hollywood Reporter
See Our Interview on YouTube!
________________________________________________
WHY THIS?
bell hooks interrogated love.
If today’s dating culture is defined by the battles of the sexes, we’ve made love the antithesis, instead of the cure. She Loves Me Not is a story about the courageous vulnerability in love in a time where toxicity reigns, and an introspection to find where it’s been broken, to bring love home.
Nikki Giovanni was funny as f*ck.
Who wouldn’t want to cut a man into pieces and Frankenstein a perfect partner back together again? Xosha, our brazen ball-busting feminist is also just a girl who likes to kick it on her podcast! Like many of us do with our girlfriends, we nickname our situationships to quickly jog memory so we can get to spilling tea! And that’s what our heroine does for her faithful listeners who are glued into her love life: “The Mind” (Thinky N*gga), “The Heart” (Tofu N*gga) and “The Ego” (F*ck Nigga). They represent disjointed parts of the body and thus reflect the different, broken parts of Xosha.
Toni Morrison kept it real.
Many of us love through the lens of what we’ve witnessed; our parents loved the way their parents loved, leaving us to love through a fractured lens. How do we do love correctly if the previous generation hasn't done the introspection needed to heal, give, and forgive? How do we love if we still need to forgive our parents, or if they need to forgive us? How can we build a future in love... if our foundation stands on faulty ground?
________________________________________________
WHY NOW?
Our dating culture has been inundated with "manosphere" red pill podcasts and streamer content that persuades young men and boys to approach love with defensive, war-like tactics against young women and girls... and it’s costing everyone. Gender wars have strayed our community far from the purpose and intention of love, as guided by voices such as Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde and my dear friend, the late Ayesha K. Faines.
It’s also a monumental time in the industry for Black storytellers to take our power back to make and support the content we want to see in a time where Hollywood is in a reconstruction phase. This team is lead by Black creatives across departments to passionately give this story life, and to leave behind a seed of love.
________________________________________________
This is not just a film. It’s a conversation for us to begin with ourselves, our lovers, our friends, our parents... and our community. There is a fracture that needs tending to - but that’s a good thing. With a bit of information and love, a rose can bloom from concrete. This is the generation of change.
I want to open the conversation of how gender impacts love across a traveling tour of screenings for the film, so audiences leave with much more than just entertainment. They leave with an renewed and empowered sense of self and purpose.
We’re also partnering with screening platform Kinema to make it possible for anyone to host a screening and conversation in their own communities!
THE WRAP UP
Currently:
• Our short film is completely shot!
• Post-production plan set to complete the film!
This campaign funds:
• Post-Production: film editing, sound mixing, music licensing
• If we surpass goal, we can promote on a major scale and travel to film festivals to rep our set!
Your action:
• Pledge today
• Follow the campaign on Seed & Spark
• Share on your socials and the link with two friends
• Leave a comment to boost visibility and give us that word of mouth outside
Follow us on socials!
Instagram - @shelovesmenotshort
Facebook - She Loves Me Not page!
Contribute to the campaign to help us finish the film. We have incredible rewards!
STRETCH GOALS
Here’s what we want to acquire beyond our immediate funding!
$8000 - Film Festival Travel & Lodging for Cast & Crew
$2500 - Graphic Designer for Promotional Expenses
Cast & Team photos
Digital Marketing Materials
$5000 - Cast & Crew Story
We want to film an intimate documentary about losing our first short film
and our resilience to bring it back to all of you!
________________________________________________
THE TIMELINE
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Editor
Costs $1,000
An editor is an imperative part of finalizing any film! We need to hire a professional that understands the comedic & dramatic beats.
Colorist
Costs $500
A colorist makes the film appear vibrant, moody, and saturated to appear beautifully appealing on screen!
Sound Mixer
Costs $1,000
Sound MAKES the film! Bad audio is an awful experience for the viewer, so we’re hiring a top notch person!
Music Score + Licensing
Costs $1,000
Music sells the emotion of a film. We’d like to hire an indie Black creative to score the music as well as license tracks!
Film Festival Submission
Costs $2,500
Film Festivals are incredible platforms for a film! It gains us exposure to industry executives, managers, agents, buyers and distributors!
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
********* BLACK CREATIVES SET THE TEMPO **********
PHOTO CREDIT: DWIGHT JAMES III
"I wrote this story for two reasons: I wanted to speak to my mother. And her mother. To offer them the protection against the broken love they were persuaded to endure. To say, “I offer this story as both a soft place to land, and as a declaration that it all ends with me.” I also wrote this story in grief; my late friend Ayesha K. Faines' irreverent voice and intention to place feminism into Black women’s hands as an empowering tool of love continues."
justlatasha.com
"She Loves Me Not reminded me of the early 2000s romcoms that set a tone for Black cinema - specifically, Two Can Play That Game where a Black woman was a boss and owned her role in love and dating, much like our lead character, Xosha. When you dig deeper, you recognize that she’s not exactly the woman she portrays to be; she’s just as lost as the rest of us. Dating is so hard in our 30s. I feel we’ve not had enough great romance films in the modern era for our community."
iamtristantaylor.com
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Brittney Janae is an L.A. based filmmaker who specializes in branded content. Collaborations include Hillman Grad, Hoorae, Paramount, Dell, Sony Pictures, Adobe, Amazon Prime, and People Magazine.
brittneyjanae.com
Grad from Howard University School of Law, Ade Johnson transitioned from law into entertainment and launched Runtime to showcase untold Black stories. He produced Good Day - featured on Revolt’s Short & Fresh HBCU segment.
theruntimestudio.com
Grad of Cornell University, Shelby Holland is a film producer with a background in Business and Strategy. Along with public speaking and event planning, Shelby also hosts a podcast called Sisters Who Watch.
shelbyholland.com
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Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
SHE LOVES ME NOT is a dramatic romcom that follows our sexy intellectual pistol, Xosha, as she uses the philosophies of historic Black women to guide her misshapen, non-committal love life for her weekly podcast. However, she’s to discover her progressive dating ideologies are an avoidant cover to the estranged relationship between she and her mother.
Her original heartbreak.
With a lineage of broken love, how do modern women end the generational curse
of broken hearts? What’s the new way to love?
2024 PRODUCTION
You may have heard the tragic news following our successful film shoot in 2024. Yes, the one where you joined our crowdfunding campaign to get this thing made! Then we shot it... right before losing the entire film in the offload process where files were transferred from the camera to the hard drive. We were devastated.
But, that isn’t where our story ends.
We took a little over year off to readjust our hearts and reinvigorate our spirits to do it all over again! To prove to you, our supporters, that we could! AND WE DID! The team worked silently and diligently to rebuild what YOU helped us accomplish the first time, to do it bigger and better the second time!
See our original campaign to get it made here!
___________________________________________________________________________
2026 PRODUCTION
We have successfully completed our re-shoot! Now, time to put it all together in post-production!
This is where you can join us again!
Photo Credit: Dwight James III
"This is a love story."
__________________________________________________________
WHY ME?
Because I’m sixteen years in the game.
With a features such as Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Grapevine TV, and Teen Vogue, my portfolio also includes developing an original pilot for Netflix, joining the 2025 Rideback RISE Circle cohort, writing for Keke Palmer and Revolt TV in partnership with Damn Write Originals, and developing the She Loves Me Not TV pilot in The Writer’s Colony, founded by no other than legendary Hollywood showrunner, Mara Brock Akil!
"I’m proud to be in community with (Latasha), stellar examples of writers who have the prowess to be
powerhouse showrunners, directors and leaders in the next iteration of our fast-changing industry.”
- Mara Brock Akil, The Hollywood Reporter
See Our Interview on YouTube!
________________________________________________
WHY THIS?
bell hooks interrogated love.
If today’s dating culture is defined by the battles of the sexes, we’ve made love the antithesis, instead of the cure. She Loves Me Not is a story about the courageous vulnerability in love in a time where toxicity reigns, and an introspection to find where it’s been broken, to bring love home.
Nikki Giovanni was funny as f*ck.
Who wouldn’t want to cut a man into pieces and Frankenstein a perfect partner back together again? Xosha, our brazen ball-busting feminist is also just a girl who likes to kick it on her podcast! Like many of us do with our girlfriends, we nickname our situationships to quickly jog memory so we can get to spilling tea! And that’s what our heroine does for her faithful listeners who are glued into her love life: “The Mind” (Thinky N*gga), “The Heart” (Tofu N*gga) and “The Ego” (F*ck Nigga). They represent disjointed parts of the body and thus reflect the different, broken parts of Xosha.
Toni Morrison kept it real.
Many of us love through the lens of what we’ve witnessed; our parents loved the way their parents loved, leaving us to love through a fractured lens. How do we do love correctly if the previous generation hasn't done the introspection needed to heal, give, and forgive? How do we love if we still need to forgive our parents, or if they need to forgive us? How can we build a future in love... if our foundation stands on faulty ground?
________________________________________________
WHY NOW?
Our dating culture has been inundated with "manosphere" red pill podcasts and streamer content that persuades young men and boys to approach love with defensive, war-like tactics against young women and girls... and it’s costing everyone. Gender wars have strayed our community far from the purpose and intention of love, as guided by voices such as Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde and my dear friend, the late Ayesha K. Faines.
It’s also a monumental time in the industry for Black storytellers to take our power back to make and support the content we want to see in a time where Hollywood is in a reconstruction phase. This team is lead by Black creatives across departments to passionately give this story life, and to leave behind a seed of love.
________________________________________________
This is not just a film. It’s a conversation for us to begin with ourselves, our lovers, our friends, our parents... and our community. There is a fracture that needs tending to - but that’s a good thing. With a bit of information and love, a rose can bloom from concrete. This is the generation of change.
I want to open the conversation of how gender impacts love across a traveling tour of screenings for the film, so audiences leave with much more than just entertainment. They leave with an renewed and empowered sense of self and purpose.
We’re also partnering with screening platform Kinema to make it possible for anyone to host a screening and conversation in their own communities!
THE WRAP UP
Currently:
• Our short film is completely shot!
• Post-production plan set to complete the film!
This campaign funds:
• Post-Production: film editing, sound mixing, music licensing
• If we surpass goal, we can promote on a major scale and travel to film festivals to rep our set!
Your action:
• Pledge today
• Follow the campaign on Seed & Spark
• Share on your socials and the link with two friends
• Leave a comment to boost visibility and give us that word of mouth outside
Follow us on socials!
Instagram - @shelovesmenotshort
Facebook - She Loves Me Not page!
Contribute to the campaign to help us finish the film. We have incredible rewards!
STRETCH GOALS
Here’s what we want to acquire beyond our immediate funding!
$8000 - Film Festival Travel & Lodging for Cast & Crew
$2500 - Graphic Designer for Promotional Expenses
Cast & Team photos
Digital Marketing Materials
$5000 - Cast & Crew Story
We want to film an intimate documentary about losing our first short film
and our resilience to bring it back to all of you!
________________________________________________
THE TIMELINE
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Editor
Costs $1,000
An editor is an imperative part of finalizing any film! We need to hire a professional that understands the comedic & dramatic beats.
Colorist
Costs $500
A colorist makes the film appear vibrant, moody, and saturated to appear beautifully appealing on screen!
Sound Mixer
Costs $1,000
Sound MAKES the film! Bad audio is an awful experience for the viewer, so we’re hiring a top notch person!
Music Score + Licensing
Costs $1,000
Music sells the emotion of a film. We’d like to hire an indie Black creative to score the music as well as license tracks!
Film Festival Submission
Costs $2,500
Film Festivals are incredible platforms for a film! It gains us exposure to industry executives, managers, agents, buyers and distributors!
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
********* BLACK CREATIVES SET THE TEMPO **********
PHOTO CREDIT: DWIGHT JAMES III
"I wrote this story for two reasons: I wanted to speak to my mother. And her mother. To offer them the protection against the broken love they were persuaded to endure. To say, “I offer this story as both a soft place to land, and as a declaration that it all ends with me.” I also wrote this story in grief; my late friend Ayesha K. Faines' irreverent voice and intention to place feminism into Black women’s hands as an empowering tool of love continues."
justlatasha.com
"She Loves Me Not reminded me of the early 2000s romcoms that set a tone for Black cinema - specifically, Two Can Play That Game where a Black woman was a boss and owned her role in love and dating, much like our lead character, Xosha. When you dig deeper, you recognize that she’s not exactly the woman she portrays to be; she’s just as lost as the rest of us. Dating is so hard in our 30s. I feel we’ve not had enough great romance films in the modern era for our community."
iamtristantaylor.com
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Brittney Janae is an L.A. based filmmaker who specializes in branded content. Collaborations include Hillman Grad, Hoorae, Paramount, Dell, Sony Pictures, Adobe, Amazon Prime, and People Magazine.
brittneyjanae.com
Grad from Howard University School of Law, Ade Johnson transitioned from law into entertainment and launched Runtime to showcase untold Black stories. He produced Good Day - featured on Revolt’s Short & Fresh HBCU segment.
theruntimestudio.com
Grad of Cornell University, Shelby Holland is a film producer with a background in Business and Strategy. Along with public speaking and event planning, Shelby also hosts a podcast called Sisters Who Watch.
shelbyholland.com
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