Melanin Unscripted, through its impact platform Rise In Light, proudly presents Perfect Woman—Nigeria’s first narrative short film on cervical cancer awareness. Directed by Storytellers for Change grant winner Miracle Blaise and starring Nollywood veteran Tina Mba, this powerful film sheds light on the urgent need for cervical cancer education, prevention, and early detection.

Culture is fluid, dynamic, and deeply interconnected. The Exchange, a new social media series by Melanin Unscripted, delves into the powerful ways diverse communities inspire and influence one another across music, dance, film, beauty, and food. The Exchange celebrates the global threads that shape modern identity.

This feature-length documentary film offers a lens into the world of African boundary-pushers, storytellers, and historymakers; we follow each of their stories as they navigate the ideals of self-expression married with the quest for identity in the face of external and internal barriers.

Women Of Color in Japan is a documentary film directed by Amarachi Nwosu produced under Melanin Unscripted highlighting creative women of various backgrounds who are making strides toward their vision of social inclusion, equity, and representation living in Tokyo, Japan.

MU speaks to creatives about the First-Generation experience of navigating unfamiliar waters to paths that have been set out in familiar fields like law, medicine, engineering and beyond.

As part of our MU Say Her Name initiative, Melanin Unscripted in partnership with HYPEBAE introduced the world to Nigerian-Beninoise singer, Ayra Starr.