Haile Gerima

Haile Gerima was born on 4 March 1946 in Gondar. His father, a playwright, travelled the Ethiopian countryside staging his plays, and was his first influence. He left in 1967 for Chicago to study theatre at the Goodman School of Drama, where only minor roles were open to him, and in 1970 moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he took his film degrees and belonged to the group known as the L.A. Rebellion. A professor of film at Howard University, in Washington, since 1975, he founded in 1984, with his wife Shirikiana Aina, a company that distributes his films itself.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaHarvest: 3,000 YearsMirt Sost Shi AmitHaile Gerima · 1976Cinema