Haile Gerima Sankofa Yahoo

A Film By Haile Gerima Sankofa: In 'Sankofa,' a contemporary African-American woman travels back in time and experiences slavery. Haile Gerima's poetic and.

*Haile Gerima was born on this date in 1946. He is an Ethiopian American filmmaker. Born in Gondor, Ethiopia in 1946, Gerima is the fourth child of ten children. His father was a writer and his mother a teacher. Apex Sql Diff Serial. As a youth Gerima performed in his father's theater troupe, which presented original and often historical drama, always submersed in the genuine culture of Ethiopia.

Gerima came to the U.S. In 1967 to study at the Goodman School of Drama. He slowly realized that 'with cinema I could control many more things than n the theatre.'

Gerima went on to receive his MFA from UCLA in 1976 and to produce several films. Hour Glass, and Child of Resistance were his first films, Bushmama and Harvest 3,000 Years followed, all produced during his years at UCLA. At UCLA he was an important member of the Los Angeles School of black filmmakers. He is a professor of film at Howard University in Washington, DC since 1975. His best known film is probably Sankofa (1993), a film about slavery.