Interview with Screenwriter Tammy Caplan (BLACK-ISH “Keepin’ It Real Estate”)

Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about?

Tammy Caplan: It’s a 30 minute TV comedy spec of the show Blackish. My episode is called Keepin’ It Real Estate. Dre discovers housing discrimination happening in his own neighborhood of Sherman Oaks and fights to stop it.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Family comedy

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

The Blackish writing staff has touched on the subject of housing discrimination before but there’s so much more to the topic that they could deal with. As I told my in-laws what I was writing about, they came out with their own horror stories of housing discrimination and how these areas of our country that discriminated still lack diversity. That lack of diversity contributes to so many of the social and political issues we grapple with today. Even after the 1968 Fair Housing Act, real…