Yemane Demissie

Yemane Demissie was born in Addis Ababa and left Ethiopia after the revolution of 1974. Trained in film in the United States, he first made short films from 1987 and a series of portraits of African artists. He has taught at the University of Southern California and at New York University, where he is a professor of directing, writing and film history. He has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, the production grant of the Locarno festival and that of the Fonds Sud. He has made a second fiction film and a documentary on the last emperor, broadcast by a South African channel.

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• CinemaTumultGir-girYemane Demissie · 1996Cinema