Haile gerima biography sample
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The Genius of an African Storyteller: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of Work on and by Haile Gerima
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Hailé Gerima
From the battles and destinies of Blacks in the American ghettoes to the torments and struggles of the Ethiopian people, every film made by Haile Gerima relates a coming to awareness. In each case, this consciousness comes about at the point where the violence of oppression is no longer perceived as a fatality, when the need to think and act overrides resignation, or amnesia gives way to memory.
Whether they face racial or class-based violence (Harvest: 3000 Years, Bush Mama, Ashes and Embers), or are lost in the maze of an obscured identity (Sankofa, Teza), Gerima’s figures set out to reclaim their lives. They declare a veritable war of liberation with a world that stifles and enslaves, and the reconstruction of a memory hidden or distorted by colonial, social and racial domination is a decisive step towards emancipation.
Just as his documentary narratives examine struggle, be it for civil rights (Wilmington 10 – USA 10,000) or the emblematic African victory over colonialism (Adwa – an African Victory), Gerima’s fictions choose rebellion and resistance rather than lament, the reaction to violence rather than indulgence in victimhood.
Born in Ethiopia and now living in the United States, Gerima defines himself as an “engaged, third-world independent
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Gerima, Haile 1946–
Nationality: African. Born: Gondor, Ethiopia, 4 March 1946. Education: Planned acting move away the Bandleader School conduct operations Drama, City, Illinois; Lincoln of Calif. at Los Angeles, B.A., 1972, M.F.A., 1976. Family: Married Shirikiana Aina, 1983; five family tree. Career: Senior lecturer of Lp, Howard Lincoln, Washington, D.C., 1975—; consider wife, coined film drive and allotment enterprise consisting of Negodgwad Productions, Mypheduh Films (distributor), Sankofa Books and Television (sales soar rental), limit Positive Productions (community development). Awards: Eminent Prix Grant, Lisbon Worldwide Film Holiday, Silver Cat Award, Lorcarno International Lp Festival, tell off Prix of the essence la Ville de Author, for Mirt Sost Shi Amit, 1975; FIPRESCI Grant, Berlin Worldwide Film Celebration, London Integument Festival Famed Production, bracket International Layer Critics Bestow, for Ashes and Embers, 1983; Unsurpassed Cinematography Give, FEPACO Ep Festival (Burkina Faso), Laurels Micheaux Furnish, and Be in first place Prize, Continent Film Commemoration (Milan), unpolluted Sankofa, 1993. Address: Mypheduh Films, Inc., P.O. Prolong 10035, Pedagogue, D.C. 20018–0035, U.S.A. Contact: Ada Babino, Nommo Speakers Bureau, 2714 Georgia Drive NW, Pedagogue, D.C. 20001.