Name
Haile Gerima
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1946-03-04 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Gondor, Ethiopia
Biography
Haile Gerima (born March 4, 1946) is an Ethiopian Amhara filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. Since 1975, Haile has been a film professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is best known for Sankofa (1993), which won two awards. In 1970, he moved to California to attend the University of California where he earned Bachelor's and Master's of Fine Arts degrees in film. He was part of a generation of new black filmmakers who became known as the Los Angeles School of Black filmmakers, along with Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep), Jamaa Fanaka (Penitentiary), Ben Caldwell (I and I), Larry Clark and Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust).
Known For
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Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film...
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In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using docu...
- 2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
- 1994 Imperfect Journey
- 1988 Ouaga
- 2016 Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA as Himself
- 1973 As Above, So Below as Dess
- 2026 Black Lions – Roman Wolves as Self – Narrator
