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Haile Gerima

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 72194

IMDb ID: nm0314340

Known for: Directing

Born: March 4, 1946

Age: 79

Place of birth: Gondor, Ethiopia

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1971 - 2017

Years active: 47

Average TMDB rating: 7.52

Wikidata: Q2274006

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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).

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