Gerima, Haile

LC control no.	no 98073989
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Gerima, Haile *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1946-03-04
Place of birth	Gondar (Ethiopia)
Affiliation	University of California, Los Angeles Howard University Goodman School of Drama (Chicago, Ill.) Sankofa Video and Bookstore
Profession or occupation	Motion picture producers and directors Screenwriters College teachers
Found in	Sankofa, 1995: credits (Haile Gerima) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 29, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Haile, Gerima; motion picture producer / director, screenwriter, educator, professor; born 04 March 1946 in Gondar, Ethiopia; studied acting in Addis Ababa; attended the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago (1967); entolled in a film school and earned BA (1972) and MFA (1976) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); part of the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers at UCLA; affected by radical thinkers like Frantz Fanon; his first short film was Hour Glass (1971); first feature film was Bush Mama (1976); first movie set in Ethiopia was Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976); became a professor of film at Howard University, Washington, D.C.; found his own production and distribution company, Mypheduh Films (1982); released Sankofa, which earned $3 million in theaters (1993); established the Sankofa Video and Bookstore (1996); released Teza (2008); won the top prize at FESPACO (Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou))