[5][6] Vives co-wrote the 2002 film Raising Victor Vargas, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay[7] and for a Humanitas Prize.
Vives has also been collaborating/ working on several other projects over the years including Chrome & Paint (which had been renamed to Laugh Now, Cry Later), a film she co-wrote with Ice Cube.
[12] She has two other scripts, a feminist revenge film and an "All About Eve theater world story" that Vives describes as more "actor-y", as she states in one of her most recent interviews surrounding All About Nina.
[15] In New York at the beginning of Vives's career was where she was able to make connections through her relationship with a comedian—this opened a door for her to create a network with several other comedians at the time.
[16] In Vives's most recent years she finds her circle to reside in Los Angeles since her part in the writing of Victor Vargas—she still works and collaborates with the cast, which all base themselves in LA.