ROAD TO RAINBOW
By Mo Asumang
SYNOPSIS
The afro-german woman Mo Asumang views the situation before the first Soccer World Cup taking place on the African Continent, as her chance to get a different kind of view of South Africa, a view behind the curtain. She travels to South and searches for the lost Vision of the Rainbow Nation. Together with the comedian Kagiso Lediga, who is her tour guide they travel in a shaky old mini-bus to her various destinations.
Mo Asumang gives all of the strata of society a chance to speak out. Including politicians and other known people, such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, F.W. deKlerk ( former president of South Africa) Helen Zille (Democratic Alliance), Apartheid Activist Alan Boesak, Geoff Doidge (ANC Minister) who in turn give their opinions on the Rainbow Nation. This was the Vision for South Africa that was supposed to replace the apartheid era. But did that really happen?
Mo and Kagiso find the truth in the lives of street children, township families, in the vicinity of crime and security, talking with geriatrics from an old-age home for Germans in Johannesburg and making a friend with the little boy Inganathi, who is HIV positive and with whom she gets connected. Everyone must be given the chance to speak out. They all contribute to the image of a changing African society and prepare the viewer for the 2010 World Cup in an entertaining, profound, and, above all, in a provocative way.
DIRECTOR´S BIOGRAPHY
In her new Film “Road to Rainbow” Mo is searching for the lost Vision of the Rainbow Nation in South Africa, which was supposed to replace the Apartheid Era. But did that really happen?
Mo Asumang was the second black TV Presenter in Germany 1996.
1997 the German TV Channel Pro 7 gave Mo the chance to present the TV Magazin “Liebe Sünde”, in which was seen by 2,0 to 3,0 Million people every Wednesday at 22:15.
Mo Asumang studied Visual Communication in Kassel and Classical Singing in Berlin. She worked as a taxi driver, dishwasher, barkeeper and model and since her start as a TV Presenter she has also been successful as a producer, author, director, as an actress for example in Roman Polanski`s “The Ghostwriter” (2010) she is playing the Role of the US Secretary of State. She is doing dubbing voice for productions like Independence Day, Heat, Startrek Voyager, Cold Case, etc. In 2004, she founded the MA Motion production company and began to work on her documentary “Roots Germania”, which she coproduced with the ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel in cooperation with the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Mo Asumangs debutfilm was shown fifteen times on TV within 5 month, got 60 articles within the first weeks and Mo presents the movie now even in Schools and Universitys in Germany, the US and in African countries. Roots Germania was nominated for Germanys most popular TV Prize “Grimme Award” and shown on several Filmfestivals in Germany such as in Berlin, Hamburg and Kassel, and in Africa in Rwanda, Kamerun, Mocambique (Goethe Institut Screenings in Ghana and Togo).
Since Roots Germania, Mo Asumang has been selected as one of the leading figures in Germany for Integration and Intercultural Affairs.
CREW
Director/Writer: Mo Asumang
DOP: Felix Leiberg
Editor: Karin Nowarra
Music: Johannes Malfatti
Commissioning Editor: Claudia Tronnier (ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel)
Producer: MA Motion
Production Company: MA Motion Filmproduktion
Co-producer: ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Original Title: Road to Rainbow / HDCam / 35 mm / 16:9 / 82 and 52 min/ Stereo Surround / Original Language: English with German and French Subtitles / Germany 2010
