The rainbow that forgot some of its colors.
In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured. A people who in 1994, embraced the concept of Desmond Tutu's all encompassing 'rainbow nation', but soon thereafter realized that freedom, privilege, economic growth and equality would not include them. A people who for more than 350 years has been disregarded, ignored, belittled, and stripped of anything they can call their own enduring a complex psychological oppression and identity crisis unparalleled in South African history.
Direction
Chace centers voices history tried to silence.
Writing
Personal testimony becomes devastating historical evidence.
Director
Kiersten Chace
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Cape Coloured identity emerged from Dutch-Indigenous-Khoisan-Malay mixing during colonialism—created by oppression, then rejected by both white and Black nationalist movements.
Director Kiersten Chace is herself Cape Coloured; this was her MFA thesis film at Howard University, made with equipment she smuggled piece by piece into South Africa.
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