Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filmmaker Haile Gerima, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion movement, is officially making his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima, best known as a pioneer of the L.A. Rebellion movement, held court this afternoon in the ...

Interview by Pamela Woolford with Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima. The discussion centers on Gerima's new film, Sankofa, a parable of African American enslavement and resistance. siris_sil_505176 ...

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 ...

The acclaimed 1993 film “Sankofa,” set Ada Babineaux on the path of Black independent filmmaking. In 1984, as a 20-year-old student at Howard University, Babineaux took a scriptwriting class with film ...

*A legendary filmmaker is teaching a five day workshop! Ava DuVernay’s Peabody Award-winning arts and social impact collective ARRAY announced their inaugural masterclass with celebrated Ethiopian ...

You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. “Bush Mama,” the thesis film that Haile Gerima (who ...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - A film set in Ethiopia about a bloodthirsty regime under which political dissidents and village children alike were ruthlessly killed has won best movie award at Africa's top ...

Taitu Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia -1918 On March 2, 1896, the Italians embarked on the final European conquest of an African nation, Ethiopia. With brilliant military ...

When Haile Gerima was a young boy in Ethiopia, he sat with his family -- his father the playwright, his mother the teacher, his grandmother the storyteller -- and announced that when he grew up, he ...