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Apartheid may have fallen, but its shadow still lingers.
​South African filmmaker Tara Moore delivers a landmark documentary
on one of history’s most brutal regimes, revealing how its dark legacy
​continues to shape the nation today.

​2025
OSCARS®
LONG-LIST: Best Documentary Feature
2025​
Pan African Film Festival
WINNER: Best Documentary Feature
2025​
NYC African Diaspora Film Festival
WINNER: Best Film Directed by a Woman of Color
2024
Durban International Film Festival​
WINNER: Best South African Documentary

DIRECTOR'S BIO

TARA ERICA MOORE

Tara is the award-winning South African director of the 2025 Oscars® contender, “LEGACY: APARTHEID'S SHADOW”.  The film, described by Variety as a "People's history of South Africa", reflects her belief in the power of media to change the world.

Born during Apartheid, and raised between South Africa and Connecticut, her bi-continental upbringing, along with her biracial identity (she is of South Asian and English descent), greatly informs her film-making perspective.

Tara holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.
Powerful." 
                     - Chris Rock
2025 OSCARS® LONG-LIST
​BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 
Tara Moore’s directorial debut, Legacy, is a documentary that wears its heart on its sleeve to serve up one of the most detailed and perspective-shifting depictions of the scope and scale of Apartheid."
                                 - Durban FilmMart

SYNOPSIS

Thirty years after the fall of apartheid, South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world. A landmark documentary that reveals the deep-rooted forces of inequality still shaping the world today. 

With unprecedented access, the film follows the grandson of the so-called ‘Architect of Apartheid’ as he grapples with his family’s role in one of history’s most brutal regimes. His deeply personal reckoning exposes apartheid’s endurance today, both systemically and psychologically. 

LEGACY is not only a definitive chronicle of South Africa, it’s a global call to confront the past in order to re-imagine a more equal future.  A vital meditation on accountability and social justice that resonates far beyond one nation, mirroring struggles playing out worldwide today - making it not only timely, but essential viewing.

" My grandfather was the 'Architect of Apartheid'. . .
​
​How do I sit with that?"

​            - Wilhelm Verwoerd
   "Legacy: Apartheid's Shadow"
A probing documentary"
                                                      - Variety
​Legacy functions as "A People's History of South Africa."
                                          - Variety
Painstakingly researched"
                                  - Variety

DIRECTOR PRESENTATION

​Director, Tara Moore, presents​ LEGACY at its World Premiere in South Africa.

LEGACY was the Opening Night Film at the 2024 Durban Film International Film Festival. 

The film was awarded Best South African Documentary at DIFF,
an award which qualified it for the 2025 Academy Awards.
Candid and intensely intimate."
                           - Independent Online

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