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 ...

Haile Gerima left Hollywood long ago. Part of a group of 1970s UCLA film students who came to be known as the LA Rebellion for their refusal to adhere to the mainstream film industry’s storytelling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TO BEST UNDERSTAND "KILLER OF SHEEP," Charles Burnett's masterful 1977 feature debut, is to understand the context in which it was made. In 1967, after studying electrical engineering at Los Angeles ...