Director
Ayoka Chenzira
Starring
Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Nunes
Run Time
89 mins
Release Year
1994
Country of Origin
USA
Language
English
Director of Photography: Ronald K. Gray
Editor: Lillian Benson
Produced by: Howard M. Brickner, Ayoka Chenzira, Charles Lane
Music: Jean-Paul Bourelly
Screenplay by: Ayoka Chenzira
Alma's Rainbow
Part of the Heartbreakers Strand
‘Girl, don’t ask me anything I cannot answer’. So begins this lusciously restored classic. Written, directed and produced by Ayoka Chenzira, Alma’s Rainbow sees teenage Rainbow navigate the differing expectations her straight-laced mother Alma and unruly sister Ruby have of her, while trying to find her own path. Chenzira’s film centres Black women’s inner world through intergenerational, vibrant characters and perhaps feels more prescient now than in 1994. [15]