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Haile Gerima
Gondor, Ethiopia
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…
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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).
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2026
Black Lions – Roman Wolves
Movie Self – Narrator
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2018
Footprints of Pan-Africanism
Movie Producer
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2016
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
Movie Himself
- 2013
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2008
Teza
Movie Director
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1999
Adwa
Movie Editor
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1994
Imperfect Journey
Movie
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1993
Sankofa
Movie Writer
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1988
Ouaga
Movie
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1982
Ashes and Embers
Movie Director
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1979
Bush Mama
Movie Director
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1979
Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000
Movie Director
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1975
Harvest: 3,000 Years
Movie Director
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1973
Child of Resistance
Movie Director
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1973
As Above, So Below
Movie Dess
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1971
Hour Glass
Movie Director
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The Maroons
Movie Director
