Rising Stars: Meet Bianca Roth of West Hollywood

Today we’d like to introduce you to Bianca Roth.

Hi Bianca, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I always loved the film and TV world. I come from a family of movie lovers, and I always loved learning about the behind-the-scenes facts and/or stories that had to do with what we were seeing on the screen. From a young age, I had a very creative mind and just didn’t know what format worked best with my creativity. So when I got accepted to college, I first went in as a creative writing major (at Chapman University) I didn’t necessarily want to write novels, but I think my thought process was just that it had “creative” in the major title, and that’s what I liked to do. Deep down, I wanted to go to film school, but I felt intimidated by how prestigious it was and how hard everyone said it was to get into. However, in the second semester of my Freshman year, I PAed a senior thesis project and immediately became addicted to the feeling on set. That’s when I knew it was time to change my major. The summer before Sophomore year I was accepted into the film school in the TV program, and through my classes and professors, I really fell in love with making TV. After graduation, I took my experiences being a single gal in her twenties and wrote a script- Twenty Somethings. It was basically a compilation of experiences that I had written in my notes app that were so outlandishly relatable and made me laugh. After I felt the script was in a good place, I submitted it to the LA Comedy Film Festival’s Pilot Screenplay competition, which the script ended up winning. That gave me the validation that more people would enjoy this, and there was really only one option, which was to make the pilot episode. Once I made my mind up on that, I worked tirelessly for 6 months to raise 100k to shoot the full 30-minute episode. In Oct 2025, I did just that. As we know, the film/TV industry is rapidly changing right now, and distribution is different than it has ever been – we have social media. So again, in an effort to get the most people to enjoy my show as possible, I have broken the pilot episode into 1-3min vignettes that tell the story of the pilot and have been distributing it on the Twenty Somethings social accounts. And that’s where I am now!

Twenty Somethings:
I created this show for one simple reason… to make something I wanted to re-watch. I have a wide array of genre tastes- thriller, action, drama, comedy (obviously). There are a multitude of modern shows that I love and am entertained by; however, once I’m done with the season, I never revisit the show. The shows I go back to are Friends, Sex and the City, Girls, New Girl… you get it… all shows that have been wrapped for the last 5 years. I realized that we do not have a modern sitcom comfort show. What makes a comfort show? I believe it has to do with the series structure. Being able to pick up from any episode in any season and become immersed in the world for 30 mins and not needing to know exactly what happened in the episode prior is what brings me back to a show over and over again. This is what I am doing with Twenty Somethings. This is the show you can pick up from anywhere and escape for 30mins. It’s relatable and even when it’s not you can connect with the characters and root for them.
Now, how are we different from Friends? Well, Twenty Somethings is specific to the 2020s era. Typically, when this era is depicted its… well… cringey and… tasteless. There are times where that may be appropriate, but there is a lot more to being a Twenty Something as a Gen-Zer than dancing on TikTok- it’s not that easy. Believe it or not, I think we have the same struggles as the twenty-somethings did before us and will after us. This time in your life is tough, and what I am doing is putting those relatable struggles within the context of 2026. We are bringing short-form TV to 2026, which ultimately will lead to a long-term cultural show that generations can enjoy, just as it has before.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Nothing worth doing is easy! The hardest part at the time was raising money to make sure that the pilot was the best it could be. I had to think outside the box a lot. Since I am not a big showrunner (of course) I couldn’t just ask someone to trust me with their money to create a TV pilot. So instead, I got creative and found other ways to raise the money I needed.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
At my core, I am a filmmaker, but I have a marketing brain, so I think what sets me apart is that I combine those two things to create a product of film quality that tells a story worth telling, while still representing a brand identity.
If I am working on a marketing campaign, it is not going to be something commercial or in your face. It will be visually stunning and evoke emotion in the viewer, which, as a result, will be a successful advertisement.
For my filmmaking, I just want to make relatable stories. For me, when I feel the most moved by a movie or a show its when I see myself in it. That’s what I like to do for audiences.

How do you define success?
For me, I will know I’m successful if people who watch my work and think to themselves, “that’s me!”
That they are moved after they watch something I create. Filmmaking is MY passion, so of course I will be successful on paper with that as my career, but I think I will feel successful when the reaction of others gets back to me and that it’s a reaction of reflection.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://biancarothfilms.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biancaaroth/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bianca-roth-6713b8201/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BiancaRothFilms