Tara Erica Moore, Afrique du Sud, 2024
SYNOPSIS
An unprecedented access, the grandson of the “Architect of Apartheid” takes a searingly honest look into his ancestral legacy, exposing universal truths on inequality.
BIOFILMOGRAPHY
TARA ERICA MOORE DIRECTOR – WRITER – EDITOR – PRODUCER
Born under Apartheid, and raised bouncing between South Africa and Connecticut, Tara Moore uses her diverse background as a bi-racial woman to inform both her filmmaking and her acting. Her acting work includes a slate of well-syndicated TV shows including HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, iZOMBIE, and RIZZOLI & ISLES amongst many others. She most recently played the lead in a Hallmark TV movie. She holds a BA from Wesleyan and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.
DIRECTORS STATEMENT
Growing up in South Africa as a woman of color, I experienced both the overt and covert remnants of Apartheid. South Africa only achieved Democracy in 1994 and still has a lot of work to do to remedy the harm of the past – one of which is to challenge outdated historical narratives that were written by prior victors and are a hindrance to progress. Most South Africans, for example, put the lion’s share of blame for our current inequality problems on the past 30 years of Democracy, rather than the prior 350 years of Colonialism and Apartheid, because the historical narrative still favors the past. Narratives such as this can be particularly resistant to change in a country like South Africa where they have little chance to be challenged because the racially segregated ruts of Apartheid endure in the form of homogeneous neighborhoods, schools, and friendship groups. But if we remain trapped in the physical and mental silos of the past, we will not be able to dig ourselves out of our ranking as the most unequal country in the world, because how we understand the world affects the way we act in it
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