A flustered substitute teacher triggers a fiery battle between 2nd-grader Mikki Rios-King and her best friend Andy Katz, creating chaos at Limon Elementary.
Mikki Rios-King is a spirited tomboy who loves to play soccer, so when her best friend Andy and the soccer team exclude her from the recess game on the day an inexperienced substitute teacher struggles to control the class, she launches a campaign of revenge that creates mayhem and has far-reaching consequences for her, the sub, and a vulnerable classmate.
Born and raised in South Africa, where she has unshakable roots and often returns, she left a successful career as a journalist and columnist in Cape Town to pursue her filmmaking dreams, winning a DGA Award for her MFA thesis short starring John Heard, among other accolades for shorts, music videos, and screenplays. Her debut feature, "NOBODY LEAVES 'til Jesus Comes" (not a religious film) debuted at Dances With Films, LA '24. She’s worked as a writer/director on shorts, and a game, and published her afro-futuristic graphic novel ZANA: Book One. She has various features, shorts, a novel, and other projects in the works, including the Page Awards Finalist historical feature WAKING A QUEEN, set in South Africa.
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