Mo Asumang
Mo
is an acclaimed filmmaker, actress and tv presenter, well known in Germany due
to her brave documentary movies and TV moderation. Recently she has gained
International exposure being featured in Roman
Polanski`s movie "The Ghostwriter" playing
Condoleezza Rice, she was featured in an article by "USA TODAY" which linked President Obama and Mo
Asumang as 'kindred souls',
and being compared in the media to filmmaker Michael Moore, and through
her work leading workshops and lectures
about racism and social integration in Universities and Schools
in Germany, african Countries, across USA and Europe.
Since the beginning of her career as a TV moderator in Germany in 1996, she has
became a well known cultural figure and has taken on a successful career as
both producer, writer, actress, and film director as well as moderator. In
recent years Mo has dedicated her many talents and her energy to creative
activism in the field of racism.
Her new documentary THE ARYANS (2014) is a personal journey into the madness of
racism during which she meets German neo-Nazis, the US leading racist, the
notorious Tom Metzger and Ku Klux Klan members in the alarming twilight of the
Midwest. In The ARYANS Mo questions the completely wrong interpretation of
"Aryanism" - a phenomenon of the tall, blond and blue-eyed master
race.
as a director Mo won
German Directors Award "Metropolis" 2015
and "Magnolia Award" (for Best Director) at Shanghai TVFilm Festival, China
nominated two times for Grimme Prize, nominated for PRIX EUROPA etc.
NEWS: Mo was awarded the Order of Merit from the State of Berlin (01.10.2016)
In her documentary "Road to Rainbow" (directed by Mo Asumang, 2010),
Mo is searching for the dream the South Africans had about equality that was to
rise after the Apartheid Era, investigating the social reality of South Africa
16 years later.
Her previous movie "Roots Germania" (directed and produced by Mo
Asumang, 2007) Mo was able to solve a trauma caused by racism; She undertakes a
journey to discover her roots and her identity, facing her African father in
Ghana, her White German Mother in Germany, and Jürgen Rieger, the
head of the neonaziparty NPD. The catalyst of this journey, a threat over
her life received by the NeoNazi Band "White Aryan Rebels", becomes a
poignant tool for self discovery and a sharp reflection to matters of finding
identity in Germans society of today.
"Roots Germania" was nominated for Germany's most popular TV
Prize,the "Grimme Award" and within one year shown 15 times on TV,
receiving 60 articles in it's first week of run, and shown in several film
festivals in Germany and African Countries.
Mo's seeking for social justice is not by chance. At the age of 5 weeks Mo was
sent to an orphanage, and then raised by foster parents and her white
grandmother who was with the Nazi-SS. From this early period and on, the color of her skin has impacted
her and has made the issue of racism deeply entrenched into her live. In 2007
Mo Asumang has been selected as one of the leading figures and activists in
Germany for issues of social integration and Intercultural affairs.
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