Integrated

Integrated

Television (One-hour) · Drama · 60 pages
Status: Spec
In the heart of the Deep South during the Civil Rights Movement, a determined black girl enrolls in a desegregated high school to challenge injustice. But when she faces public humiliation at her current school, she'll see attending the integrated school as an opportunity to escape her struggles with self-esteem, colorism, and boys.
Written by Geaux Francois
7 Accolades
Accolade Highlights
Finalist, Table Read My Screenplay - Park City 2024
Finalist, Table Read My Screenplay - Park City 2024
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2022

1 Writer

Geaux Francois
Florida
I am an American writer with deep roots in Southern African American culture, enriched by Geechee heritage on my father’s side and a connection to Creek heritage on my mother’s side—though I’m still on a journey to learn more about both. Born in Texas, I grew up as the daughter of a federal warden, living next to prisons and moving to a new state ev...
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My mother was a desegregated student and completed high school as the only black in her graduating class. When I was growing up, my mother always talked about how life was for her growing-up and the hardships that she faced when she going to school. Though I have not lived my mother’s experience of being an integrated student, I do know what if feels to be out of your element and not fit in with people you can and can’t identify with, which I channel with the main character, Betty Evans. I wanted to show integration through black characters but to have it work as a thread that is pulled through a really full and rich tapestry -- It’s central to the plot but it’s not the sole lens. I wanted to talk about this pivotal time in American history while portraying lives that are fully imagined and realized from the perspective of the black community.