LONG STORY SHORT is a rom-com about a Black woman trying to get her hair done.
LONG STORY SHORT follows in the tradition of "Girl's Trip", "Bridesmaids" and "One of Them Days" as a female-driven, broad comedy, that will have men laughing in the aisles just as loudly as the women that brought them there!
Our hero Temple Ross has met the one. The only problem is he’s never seen her real hair. Weaves and braids have always been her go-to, but now they have literally gone up in smoke, leaving her hair at an all-time low. So Temple solicits the help of her two best friends and together they odyssey through Los Angeles in a twenty-four hour, last ditch attempt to get her hair right before a crucial date to meet her boyfriend’s family that will determine her fate. Will she ride off into the sunset with the man of her dreams, or will her hair doom her to a life of misery and solitude?
Simbiat Hall sold PD-X, an hour-long drama centered on experimental policing, to CBS Television Studios in collaboration with Cloud Nine Productions showrunner Kevin Fox and director Rob Hardy. Simbi adapted the Bebe Campbell Moore novel SINGING IN THE COMEBACK CHOIR for producer Reuben Cannon in collaboration with Lifetime and director Debbie Allen. Simbi developed the half-hour comedy MIXED with Halle Berry for Lifetime and sold the feature script BRING IT! VEGAS DREAMS to Pilgrim Media.
Simbi’s comedy feature script LONG STORY SHORT made the Cannes Script List and her short film LONG STORY SHORT has been distributed worldwide and received awards from AFI Fest, The Aspen Comedy Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, SXSW and UrbanWorld. Simbi was also honored by the Los Angeles County Museum as part of their “Young Directors Night.”Simbi is an alum of the illustrious Almanack Screenwriters where she wrote the coming of age drama SUNDAY MORNING, which Cheryl Boone Isaacs (former A.M.P.A.S. president) is attached to EP. Simbi’s script THE ONE, a rom-com about a woman who falls in love with herself, was honored at the Aspen Comedy Fest as Best Comedy Feature. Simbi co-wrote & produced the variety special MAKE IT WORK for Women In Film and The CW featuring Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Garner, Kathryn Hahn, Kim Whitley and Alfre Woodard. Simbi was a staff producer at VH1/MTV Networks and has produced on a number of multi-camera live shows including the Oscars, Emmys and the MTV Movie Awards. Simbi was the segment producer/director on the Emmy nominated “Disney Parks’ Magical Christmas Celebration” for ABC. Simbi graduated with honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a double major from the Institute of Film & TV and the Dramatic Writing Program and is an alumna of AFI’s “Directing Workshop for Women” and “The Guy Hanks & Marvin Miller Screenwriting Fellowship” at USC. Simbi Hall is a member of the WGA, West.
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