Kenya Branch
Screenwriter-producer at M. Kenya Branch Productions
Producer and Screenwriter
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 2014
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About Kenya
In addition to being a prolific screenwriter with a distinct voice, I’m an African American minister who grew up in the inner city of Philadelphia.
My screenplays typically feature characters of diverse ethnicities finding common ground and even love when they aren't necessarily looking for it.
I’ve written and produced fifteen shorts including "People Like Me," featuring Elizabeth Banks. Now my focus is on features.
My feature, More Alive, is in development.
I was hired by Messenger films to write an urban drama in 2019.
My screenplays and shorts have won or placed high in several international competitions including: The Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays, The Urbanworld International Film Festival, Story Pros annual International competition, The Capital Fund Screenplay Competition, The International Christian Film Festival, The Attic Film Festival, The Set in Philadelphia screenplay competition and The Maranatha Christian International Film Festival.
I co-wrote a documentary, the Birth of Black Film, broadcast on the Black News Network in 2021.
Three of my screenplays were published by Dizzy Emu Publishing in 2022 and are sold on Amazon.
My IMDB Credits page is: ?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
My screenplay listing site is :
My Linkedin profile is:
My blog can be read at :
Unique traits: Star Trek nerd.
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Loglines
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More Alive Drama After a sheltered Caucasian coed makes her first African American friend, she struggles to free herself of her white supremacist father and their church that teaches hate.
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God's Gang Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama In post-civil war Philadelphia, after their integrationist spouses are murdered, a black man and an Irish woman are caught in the middle of a bitter struggle between ethnic dockworkers and rich owners that could start a race war.
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The Complicated Truth Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama A fearless news anchor puts her life on the line to expose dangerous secret societies which have infiltrated the government to rig a presidential election, maintain their power and keep the country racially polarized.
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According to Their Kind Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy After a famous atheist receives an ancient artifact that may hold the secrets about the origins of life, she’s thrust into an age-old battle between angelic and demonic forces where choosing the wrong side will imperil her life and the world.
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The Torured Journey of Wounded Souls Budget: $1M - $5M | Western ⋄ Drama In antebellum Virginia, after a white woman is raped and her husband is killed during a journey to Philadelphia, she has to depend on a proud young slave she considers inferior, to protect her on a perilous trek north, battling bandits and slave catchers who are tracking them.
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The Greater Sin Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Crime After an innocent black teenager is gunned down by a rogue cop who isn’t charged, his mother becomes an activist and runs for city council to change entrenched practices that protect lawless cops.
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Only Lies Matter Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama Amid racial tensions on campus, a racist coed, fiercely proud of her European heritage, desperately seeks the truth about her family after a DNA test revealing African ancestry proves she isn’t who her parents say she is.
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Prisoners in Pain Sight Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Western After a white farmer saves the life of a runaway slave, the slave helps his injured widow repair her rundown farm while they prepare to fight off dangerous men who are after them both.
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Something Guiding Me Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama After a slacker’s fiancée dies suddenly, he blames God and takes a journey seeking peace. He stumbles upon a mysterious small town with the secret of why his parents deserted him as a child and may give him direction he’s never had before.
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Uncivil Wars Budget: $1M - $5M | Western On his wedding day, a Black ex-Union soldier, and his pregnant wife, are ambushed by bigots. After she dies, on the verge of killing himself, he finds an unknown White baby left on his doorstep. Thinking it could be his, he attempts to raise her while fighting off the same bigots who try to kill him and take the child.
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Profits and Losers Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance A man with anxiety disorders falls for a co-worker, but their boss, her jealous ex, pits them against each other, spiking his anxiety, making the relationship he wants with her almost impossible, during Christmas.
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Underlying Treasure Budget: $1M - $5M | Western A black ex-union soldier, on the lam, hiding from crooked white officers who want him hanged, is promised gold and sanctuary to protect a town from thugs who want to kill off the townspeople and steal the land
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And You Will Know the Truth Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama After the teen daughter of illegal aliens recovers from being hit by a car, she searches for her parents who she fears may have been deported with the guilt-ridden driver who hit her.
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Bound for Germany Town Budget: $1M - $5M | Family ⋄ Historical In 1832 Virginia, after a wealthy black plantation owner’s family is killed, all his possessions stolen or burned, and he’s left for dead by racists, he’s bent on revenge until a prophetess and two Christian women, who nurse him back to health during a miraculous road trip and try to stop him from confronting the cold-blooded murderer who’ll likely kill him.
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Givers and Takers Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama Taking down a corrupt political candidate before a fast approaching election is key for an FBI agent to prove his brother was a pawn in the murder of a prostitute connected to both.
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Servants' Row Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Historical On a plantation in the antebellum south, a taboo romance exacerbates tensions between the multicultural indentured servants and an increasingly tyrannical owner.
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Inhumane Traffic Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime ⋄ Drama After the brutal murder of a missionary, an old fashioned church woman from the country and an urban undercover police detective team up against ruthless gangsters who run a major slave trafficking network.
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A New Day Budget: $100K - $1M | Family ⋄ Musical After a black high school student befriends a new talented Latina transfer student, they give new life to the stodgy traditional Christmas musical and change racist attitudes in a small town.
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WATCH NIGHT Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama After his wife abandons him and their autistic child, a husband loses everything and needs supernatural help to maintain his dignity and keep his child.
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GENERATIONAL CURSES Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama After a bitter alcoholic rescues a broken teenager from a life in the sex trade he struggles to find her parents while her trafficking pimp pursues them.
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Tried By Fire Drama ⋄ Family After a black Pentecostal church burns down, the white pastor of a conservative church tries to take sole credit when the churches merge in a racially polarized town.
Credits
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From This Day Foward (
2013 )
Film (short) by MKB Productions Writer, Producer, Director -
What You Have Purposed 2 (
2013 )
Video by MKB Productions Writer, Producer, Director -
Common Ground (animation) (
2013 )
Video by MKB Productions Writer, Co-Producer, Director -
What You Have Purposed (
2012 )
Video by MKB Productions Writer, Producer, Director -
Absolutely Wonderful (animation) (
2010 )
Video by MKB Productions Writer, Co-Producer, Director -
Are We Neighbors? (
2008 )
Video by MKB Productions, Nicole Ayers Writer, Producer -
A Prodigal Father (
2008 )
Video by MKB Productions Writer, Producer, Director -
A Holy Kiss (
2008 )
by MKB, Teamwork, Scott E. Kaufman Writer, Producer -
Growing Up (
2008 )
Video by MKB Productions Writer, Producer, Director -
Just Talkin' (
2008 )
Video by MKB Productions Writer, Producer, Director -
The Only Daddy I've Known (
2008 )
Video by MKB Productions Writer, Producer, Director -
The Word Will Set You Free (
2004 )
Video by Bob Lott, Teamwork Productions Writer, Producer -
People Like Me (
1995 )
Film by Bob Lott, Teamwork Productions Writer, Producer -
Dumped On (
1992 )
Television by C. L. Williams Writer, Producer
Awards
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Won the Writers Workshop Ethnic Minority Best Screenplay award.
(1993)
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