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By David Gordon Smith in Berlin

The African-German community has a long history, but the sizeable minority is often overlooked in a country where being German is often considered to mean being white. Now a group of black German filmmakers is trying to change that.

A teenage girl finds her life turned upside down when her father, who she has never met, turns up. After some initial distrust, she begins to develop an affection for him. Even though she still blames him for abandoning her mother, she begins to understand that life is about making difficult choices — until she finds out her father has established a new one with another woman.

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Winta Yohannes’ “Cherish” is a universal coming-of-age story.

The plot of the short film “Cherish” is one which many people could relate to. Winta Yohannes, the film’s 32-year-old German director, wanted just that. “It’s a universal story which very many Germans can identify with,” she says.

But the film is more than just that. Yohannes, who was born in Eritrea and moved to Germany at the age of three, is showing her film at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) as part of the series “New Perspectives.” Her film is informed by her experiences growing up in Germany — a country where the black minority is next to invisible.

That’s something the organizers, the association Black Artists in German Film (SFD), is trying to change. “We want to make people aware of the fact that black filmmakers are making films which avoid the old clichés and represent black life as we see it,” says SFD’s Philippa Ebéné. READ MORE!

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Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story is a powerful new documentary which tells the story of six so-called “brown babies” born in postwar occupation Germany.

They were born to German women and African-American soldiers. As illegitimate, biracial, bicultural childrenwho were unwanted by enemy nations, their lives were tragic. For the first time Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story reveals this little known remarkable piece of history through the compelling life stories of the children and their birth parents.

SEE TRAILER and MORE info HERE!

Regina Griffin is the Executive Producer of Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story. She is an Emmy award-winning news producer formerly of CBS News and is currently Executive Producer of Sunday Morning Programming at WUSA-TV.

****Please Note: This is not a project of the Black German Cultural Society, Inc. For release dates and additional information please contact the producers at: http://brownbabiesproject.com/

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by A. Rahman Satti

An uplifting fly-on-the-wall documentary that portrays the monumental time of change during the Obama campaign that led up to his presidency in 2008.

This film interweaves complex cultural questions with the director’s biographical legacy and becomes a source of renewed inspiration reconciling the personal and universal dream for a better world.

We follow filmmaker Satti, born to a German mother and Sudanese father and raised behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany, as he embarks on a quest following the Obama campaign to find hope again.

On this epic journey, Satti encounters varied and charismatic people that give us deep insights into the political expectations that led to the Barack Obama Presidency.

Satti’s initial skepticism is often overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and spirit of the American people; nevertheless he dares to ask: “Can we really resurrect our lost hopes and dreams?”.

DVD AVAILABLE NOW!!!

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Mo Asumang Portrait on MNET by Moderator Fareed Khimani Mo is an acclaimed filmmaker, actress, and moderator 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, featured in an article by USA Today which linked President Obama and Mo Asumang, being compared to Michael Moore, and through her work leading workshops and lectures about racism and social integration in Universities and Schools across USA and Europe. Since the beginning of her career as actress and TV moderator in Germany in 1996, she has became a well known cultural figure and has taken on a successful career as both moderator, producer, writer, actress, and film director. In recent years Mo has dedicated her multi talents and her energy to creative activism in the field of racism. In her new documentary “Road to Rainbow”, directed and produced by Mo Asumang, Mo is searching for the dream the south Africans had about equality that was to rise after the Apartheid Era, and the social reality of South Africa 16 years later. In her last movie “Roots Germania” Mo was able to solve a trauma caused by racism; She undertakes a journey to discover her roots and identity, facing her African father in Ghana, her White German Mother in German, 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 racism in Germans society of today. 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. Mo Asumang has been selected as one of the leading figures and activists in Germany for social integration and Intercultural affairs. www.mo-asumang-management.com

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Adetoun Kueppers Adebisi Black Woman Diaspora Activist

Black Diaspora Interviews Moderation Panels Concepts Project Management AFROTAK TV cyberNomads Black German Education. Media Art & Culture Archive – Black Media Watch since 2001 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads DATA BANK Education www.AFROTAK.com AFROTAK TV cyberNomads TV FILM KANAL Media http://www.youtube.com/user/AFROTAKTVcyberNomads AFROTAK TV cyberNomads News Culture www.twitter.com/AFROTAKTVcbN Best Media AWARDS & HONORS * 2009 RESPECT Media Award/ Senate of Berlin * 2008 Best Media Projekt/ Foundation Democracy & Tolerance of the German Government BERLIN * 2006 Named among the 50 Most Important African Diaspora Germany Projects/ African Heritage Magazin HAMBURG * 2005 Named as Worthy Project Germany / Human Rights Report Europe * 2005 Best German Media Project/ African Youth Foundation BONN * 2005 Honorable Mentioning/ Peace Award BREMEN * 2004 Elected as Project for the Memory of the Slave Trade/ UNESCO Chapter Germany BONN * 2002 Finalist Social Business Project/ Bertelsmann Foundation BERLIN KONTAKT/Booking: AFROTAK TV cyberNomads Frau Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi (Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing.) E-MAIL: afrotak@cyberNomads.de Telephone +49-30-44043257 Mobile +49 (0) 163 — 258 38 93 Eberswalder Strasse 4 D- 10437 Berlin Diaspora – Panels – Moderation Project Management Publications Black History Month Berlin African Union African Diaspora Landesaktionsplan gegen Rassismus und ethnische Diskriminierung. CEO AFROTAK TV cyberNomads. Consulting for Culture Network House der Kulturen der Welt. May Ayim Award. Black Media Congress.

Art Literature Film Kultur Kritik:  Michael Kueppers Adebisi

A Collection of Art Works, Black Literature, Black Films, MultiMedia, Curatorial Works and Cultural Criticism BY MICHAEL KUEPPERS-ADEBISI Ein Auszug aus dem künstlerischem Werk, Schwarzer Literatur, Schwarzen Filmen, MULTI MEDIA, Arbeiten als Kurator und Kultur Kritik VON MICHAEL KUEPPERS-ADEBISI

In 2001 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads promoted the digital architecture for an educational online databank to the Office for Civic Education of the German Government (BPB). We called it the Mothership Databank in reference to Sun Ra..s Mothership Connection.

The portal premiered in 2002. We realized three major Media Conferences with local, national and international Black and African media. We collected speakers from academia, business, media and art and network them in Berlin. We develop an alliance of Europe-based African Publishers to market and
promote the image of the African continent and black Europe. The Media Network establishes over 4000 registered on- and offline contacts that lobby with the mainstream of Germany and Europe.

The Black German Yello Pages constitute a first structural overview on the African scene in Germany as well as its links within Europe. We pitch our concepts to institutional cooperation partners and sponsors and stage our events at their locations (Goethe Institute Berlin, Heinrich Boell Foundation, and House of the Cultures of the World).

We organized press conferences with Thomas Krueger – the head of the Office for Civic Education of the German Government to dispel media perceptions about Africa through effective communication strategies interfacing with the media.

We developed the MAY AYIM AWARD – a Pan-African International Black German Literature Award under umbrella ship of the German section of UNESCO and Published the Book May Ayim Award with Orlanda Publishing House. Our publication The “Black Book” revisits the footnotes and documents

German history to promote access and understanding of Africa..s history and Africa..s history in Germany and Europe. We offer our expertise to universities, companies and NGO..s teaching Change Management in workshops on Content Management as well as on Migration, Integration, cyberspace and the workforce. We access an offline-audience traditionally excluded from the German cultural and educational mainstream network and media-channels accumulating over 8 million visitors since 2001.

We do target group consulting for public TV (MDR, ZDF, N24), we are present on PublicRadio (Deutschlandfunk, Radio Multikulti, Deutsche Welle) and in print (Zitty, The African Courier, African Heritage, LoNam).

On invitation of the South African Embassy AFROTAK TV cyberNomads in September 07 represented Germany at the African Union -
Diaspora in Europe Regional Consultative Conference in Paris.

Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi is Board Member of the African Diaspora Committee Germany on accord of the African Union since 08. In 2009/ 2010 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads coordinated the workshops for the inclusion of Media&Culture NGO´s input into the Berlin State legislation proposals against racism and ethnic discrimination.

In 2009 and 2010 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads also participated in the coordination of Black History Month Berlin organizing and moderating Panels on Black German Cultural Identity, The Future Perspectives of Schwarz in Deutschland, Structural Racism in Academia and Sport or on Black Academia in a White context.

In 2010 the Essay by AFROTAK TV cyberNomads´ Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi “Negritude – Black Global Liberation Struggles of the 20th and 21st century” including the perspective of the Black German Diaspora was published in the anthology “Rassismus auf gut Deutsch”(Racism in good German).

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads @ www.afrotak.com continues the Black Media Perspective in a White German context. Our video channel AFROTAK TV showcases the culture and Media around the Black Atlantic with a specific focus on Germany.

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads are constantly looking for new partners and cooperations as well as for supporters and sponsors for innovative Black Community Projects.

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads assist you in marketing your conscious events and projects from within the Black Community into the community as well as into the Mainstream.

SINCE 1989 we have collected a body of more than 2000 videos covering the Black Presence in Germany documenting what otherwise would be lost …

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