Read My Lips

Synopsis: Charlee is an edgy, tomboyish young woman with telepathy, which she uses as a survival tool by reading minds to shape herself into what others want, leading to people-pleasing, code switching, and lost authenticity. Her inner “Mirror Charlee” challenges her to be honest and stop performing. Everything shifts when she meets Star, a colorful, unbothered, non binary person whose mind she cannot read. For the first time, Charlee loses control, struggles with real communication, and is forced to rely on honesty instead of prediction. As their connection grows, she realizes true connection requires vulnerability, not telepathy. Eventually, she chooses honesty, opens up to Star, and asks them out. In doing so, Mirror Charlee fades, and she finally begins trusting her own thoughts.

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Key Collaborators

Director: A’morie Brown

Writer/Editor: Oshun Jean

Director Of Photography: Finn Bell

Production Designer: Aidan Christie

Producers: Lilly Carnaggio & Brian Santiago

Lead Cast

Charlee & Mirror Charlee Played By

Tofarati Agbebi

Charlee - in her late teens, black women, is an outwardly confident, but over thinker and deeply insecure. She’s still well liked by her classmates

in her school due to constant ‘code switching’ . This is shown through Charlee’s powers of telepathy, her biggest crutch.

She's calculated, logical,and deeply anxious.

Only a few people around her would ever know.

Mirror Charlee - Late teens, She’s direct and unapologetic.

She tells Charlee all the thoughts she needs to know and keeps her on track with the fuel of shame and failure lurking.

She knows what Charlee wants, needs, and tries to protect her with what

she can hear from other people.