Haile Gerima

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Haile Gerima (b. Gondar, Ethiopia, March 4, 1946) is an Ethiopian filmmaker who immigrated to the United States in 1968. At UCLA he was an important member of the Los Angeles School of black film makers. He has been a professor of film at Howard University in Washington, D.C. since 1975. His best kown film is probably Sankofa (1993), a film about slavery.

Gerima's most recent film is Adwa (1999), a documentary about the Battle of Adowa, the important battle in which the Ethiopians defeated the Italian colonial force.

His wife is African American.

[edit] Films

1971 - Hour Glass
1972 - Child of Resistance
1975 - Mirt Sost Shi Amit (also known as Harvest: 3,000 Years)
1979 - Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000
1979 - Bush Mama
1982 - Ashes and Embers
1985 - After Winter: Sterling Brown
1993 - Sankofa
1999 - Adwa

[edit] Bibliography

Cham, Mbye Baboucar (1984). "Art and Ideology in the Work of Sembene Ousmane and Haile Gerima." Presence Africaine: Revue Culturelle du Monde Noir/Cultural Review of the Negro World, vol. 129, no. 1, pp 79-91.
Alexander, George, and Janet Hill, eds. (2003). Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema. New York: Harlem Moon.