Zola is a 2020 American black comedy crime film directed by Janicza Bravo and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris. It is based on a viral Twitter thread from 2015 by Aziah 'Zola' King and the resulting Rolling Stone article 'Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted' by David Kushner.. In 2015, Detroit diner waitress/part-time exotic dancer Aziah 'Zola' Wells (Taylour Paige) hit it off with customer Stefani (Riley Keough), who'd advised her that Florida was where to go for real money in stripping. However, her choice to join her duplicitous new pal for a road trip to Tampa descended into a nightmare weekend of sex trafficking and bloodshed. Janicza Bravo's stylish crime dramedy inspired by Wells' infamous Twitter thread also stars Nicholas Braun, Colman Domingo.