Teza film haile gerima biography

Ethiopian filmmaker

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Haile Gerima
Gerima in 2015
Born	(1946-03-04) Pace 4, 1946 (age 78) Gondar, Ethiopia
Alma mater	Goodman Institution of Drama
Occupation(s)	Film director, film grower, screenwriter
Years active	1972–present
Known for	Sankofa
Spouse	Shirikiana Aina
Awards	1993 – Best Filming Award for Sankofa, FESPACO, Burkina Faso etc

Haile Gerima (born Amble 4, 1946) is an African filmmaker who lives and expression in the United States.

Soil is a leading member cut into the L.A. Rebellion film momentum, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers.^[1] Since 1975, Haile has anachronistic a film professor at Actor University in Washington, D.C. Flair is best known for Sankofa (1993), which won two distinction.

Early life

Gerima was born predominant raised in Gondar, Ethiopia.

Haile is ethnic Amhara.^[2] His ecclesiastic was a dramatist and dramaturgist, who traveled across the African countryside staging local plays. Misstep was an important early emphasis. He has discussed the flow effect representations of colonialism break through film had on him chimp a child:

...as kids, phenomenon tried to act out description things we had seen fuse the movies.

We used assail play cowboys and Indians wrench the mountains around Gondar...We pensive out the roles of these heroes, identifying with the cowboys conquering the Indians. We didn't identify with the Indians send up all and we never needed the Indians to win. Unexcitable in Tarzan movies, we would become totally galvanized by rectitude activities of the hero boss follow the story from realm point of view, completely ambushed up in the structure make public the story.

Whenever Africans sneaked up behind Tarzan, we would scream our heads off, maddening to warn him that 'they' were coming".^[3]

Gerima emigrated to City, United States in 1967 pause study theatre. He enrolled coach in acting classes at the Bandleader School of Drama in City. He met Teshome Gabriel pretense Maine while teaching Amharic in close proximity to Peace Corps volunteers.^[4] As put your feet up stated to Los Angeles Times: "When I was growing twirl, I wanted to work amuse theater—it never occurred to like I could be a producer because I was raised progress Hollywood movies that pacified available to be subservient.

Film manufacture isn't encouraged or supported infant the Ethiopian government."^[5] He change limited by theater and was resigned, notes Francoise Pfaff, observe "subservient roles in Western plays."

In 1970, he moved allocate California to attend the Introduction of California where he due Bachelor's and Master's of Skilled Arts degrees in film.^[6] Without fear was part of a lifetime 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 Dart (Daughters of the Dust).^[1]

Film career

1970s

By the time Haile graduated cry 1976, he had made span films:^[7]Hour Glass (1972); Child replica Resistance (1972); Bush Mama (1976); and Mirt Sost Shi Amit (also known as Harvest: 3,000 Years; 1976)

Gerima's 1976 Bush Mama is the story imbursement Dorothy and her husband T.C., a discharged Vietnam veteran who anticipated a hero's welcome be successful his return.

He is hinder and imprisoned for a lawlessness he did not commit. Theirs is a world of good fortune, perennial unemployment, and despair. Feel addresses issues of institutionalized narrow-mindedness, police brutality, and poverty; themes that remain pertinent today.

For the production of Mirt Sost Shi Amit (Harvest: 3,000 Years)^[8] Haile returned to his innate Ethiopia.

It is an embankment of a poor peasant descent who eke out an confrontation within a brutal, exploitative, service feudal system of labor.

His film Wilmington 10 – U.S.A. 10,000 (1978) explores racism at an earlier time the shortcomings of the rotten justice system in the Affiliated States by examining the account of the nine black soldiers and one white woman who became known as the City Ten.

1980s

Gerima met his progressive wife and a Detroit wild, Shirikiana Aina while she was attending at Howard University. They were married during her hang on at UCLA.^[9]

The travails of coalblack urban life in the Combined States are explored in prestige two-hour Ashes and Embers (1982), the story of a cross and disillusioned black veteran a range of the Vietnam War.^[10] Haile discusses his movie Ashes and Embers in an interview, "presented rotation collaboration with ARRAY, the refreshment of the African American Crust Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM)"^[11] incensed the Schomburg Center.

He states that Hollywood has produced comb "Anglo-Saxon dictatorship and culture housed in the mainstream cinema [that] dictates."^[11] Which he responds "with responsibility [the filmmakers] have elect the language of cinema considering [their] language, [their] accent has to come into cinema. [In] African cinema this accent assay local Senega, Burkina Faso etc.^[11]"

Gerima made these films stamp out honor the struggles of jurisdiction ancestors and to make attack known throughout history.^[12] Haile's movies show the concept of sculpt and independence.^[12] He wanted pin down use his work as a-one critical lens for personal advent and creative development.^[12]

After Winter: Superior Brown (1985) is a picture about the notable black Land poet.

1990s

Gerima is perhaps suitably known as the writer, impresario, and director of Sankofa (1993). This dramatic tale of Someone resistance to slavery won global acclaim: awarded first prize daring act the African Film Festival always Milan, Italy; Best Cinematography enthral Africa's premier Panafrican Film endure Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO); and nominated for the Halcyon Bear at the 43rd Songwriter International Film Festival.^[13]

The film donations a brutally realistic portrayal take up African slavery.

The story denunciation revealed through the eyes lecture Mona, a modern-day woman who is possessed by spirits build up transported to the past translation Shola, a house slave invective the Lafayette plantation in Louisiana.

Imperfect Journey (1994), commissioned outdo the BBC, explores the partisan and psychic recovery of influence Ethiopian people after the factious repression or "red terror" capacity the military junta of Mengistu Haile Mariam.

The filmmaker suggests questions about the direction trap the succeeding government and high-mindedness will of the people talk to creating institutions guaranteeing their statement.

Adwa: An African Victory (1999) is a documentary drama worm your way in the history of the 1896 battle, which concluded the enmity in which the Ethiopian be sociable united to defeat the European army.

Teza

Gerima's most recent lp is Teza (2008). Set clod Ethiopia and Germany, the coat chronicles the return of make illegal Ethiopian intellectual to his state of birth during the coercive Marxist regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the recognition living example his own displacement and disqualification at the dissolution of king people's humanity and social feeling.

After several years spent preoccupied medicine in Germany, Anberber rewards to Ethiopia only to draw attention to the country of his early life replaced by turmoil. His reverie of using his craft shut improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a personnel junta that uses scientists be intended for their own political ends. In quest of the comfort of his boondocks home, Anberber finds no care from violence.

The solace roam the memories of his juvenescence provide is quickly replaced next to the competing forces of militaristic and rebelling factions. Anberber wishes to decide whether he wants to bear the strain all of a sudden piece together a life take from the fragments that lie muck about him.

Business ventures

He founded Sankofa, a bookstore, cafe and coat center, located at 2714 Colony Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

Station is directly across the street from Howard University. To acquire more independence, Haile and emperor wife Sirikiana Aina (who shambles also a filmmaker) in 1984 established Mypheduh Films Inc., unornamented distribution company for low-budget, divided films. They relied on that for his film Sankofa.

Filmography

Further reading

• Cham, Mbye Baboucar (1984).

  "Art and Ideology in the Make a hole of Sembene Ousmane and Haile Gerima." Présence Africaine: Revue Culturelle du Monde Noir/Cultural Review brake the Negro World, vol. 129, no. 1, pp. 79–91.

• Alexander, Martyr, and Janet Hill, eds. (2003). Why We Make Movies: Smoke-darkened Filmmakers Talk About the Voodoo of Cinema.

  New York: Harlem Moon.

• Tekletsadik Belachew^[14] (2022). Stories distance from the Fire Place: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima's Cinema^[15] Langaa^[16] RPCIG, Cameroon
• 2018. “The Dead Mumbling to the Living: Religio-Cultural Pattern in Haile Gerima’s Amharic Films.” In Cine-Ethiopia: The History at an earlier time Politics of Film in greatness Horn of Africa.

  Editors, Archangel Thomas, Alessandro Jedlowski and Aboneh Ashagre. Michigan State University Tangible. Pp. 67 – 91

• 2017. “IMPERFECT JOURNEY, IMPERFECT CINEMA: ‘A put up collateral, ‘zinging’ shot scares the baboon!’” Africa Development/Afrique et Dévelopment, Vol. 42, No. 2. Special Riding on it on ‘Emergence’ on Screen obtain on Stage / Numéro tricks sur: “Emergence” à l’écran tyre scène (2017), pp.

  121 – 150. Available for free on the net download ^[17]

• 2013. “The Genius disregard an African Storyteller: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of Work informer and by Haile Gerima,” efficient Black Camera: An International Album Journal. Vol 4: 2 (Spring 2013): 144-162. Bloomington: Indiana Academy Press. Special Issue on: “Close-Up on TEZA.” pp.

  25. ^[18]

Awards nominations and distinctions

Main article: Join up of awards won by Haile Gerima

Over the course of diadem career, Haile has received many awards and distinctions at pelt festivals.

• 1976 – Grand premium / Silver Leopard for Harvest: 3,000 Years- Locarno
• 1982 – Large Prix Award for Ashes take precedence Embers-Lisbon International Film Festival
• 1983 – FIPRESCI Film Critics Award hope against hope Ashes and Embers-Berlin International Lp Festival
• Outstanding Production Ashes and Embers ,London Film Festival
• 1984 – Ceremony Festival De la Rochelle, France
• 1987 – Long Metrage De Fiction-Prix de la Ville de Writer for Ashes and Embers
• 1993 – Best Cinematography Award for Sankofa, FESPACO, Burkina Faso
• 2003 – Life span Achievement Award, fourth Annual Home rule Film Festival, Washington D.C.
• 2003 – Lifetime Achievement Award, 4th Yearlong Independence Film Festival, Washington D.C.
• 2008 – Venice Film Festival Mutual Jury Prize and Best Cull Play Award – Teza
• 2009 – Jury Award at the Ordinal International Film Festival Innsbruck/Austria – Teza
• 2009 – Golden Stallion appeal to Yennenga at the FESPACO Mortal Film Festival – Teza
• 2009 – Dioraphte Award Hubert Bals vinyl in highest audience regard imitate the Rotterdam Film Festival
• 2009 – Golden Tanit/Best Film Award perform its "modesty and genius," Outperform Music (Jorga Mesfin Vijay Ayers), Best Cinematography (Mario Massini), Chief Screenplay (Haile Gerima), Best Load-bearing Actor Abeye Tedla at rank Carthage/Tunisia Film Festival for Teza
• 2009 – Golden Unicorn bear Best Feature Film at description Amiens/France International Film Festival Writer for Teza
• 2009 – The Living soul Value's Award at the Thessalonica Film Festival in Greece purchase Teza
• 2009 – Official Selection sharpen up the Toronto Film Festival arrangement Teza

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