Janicza Bravo’s Zola

“Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”

From the opening lines, A’Ziah King’s 2015 twitter thread, had the internet entranced, and the saga that follows has now been captured in the 2020 film, Zola.

Chronicling a whirlwind 48-hour road trip, Zola takes us from Detroit to Tampa, from seedy motel rooms to sleek apartments, from neon lit strip clubs to dingy parking lots, as we follow the story of Zola, and find out why she and ‘this bitch’ Stefani really did fall out.

Madeleine Mitchell chats with Zola’s director and co-writer, Janicza Bravo.

Janicza Bravo