Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima, best known as a pioneer of the L.A. Rebellion movement, held court this afternoon in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Haile Gerima story is one of personal and professional resistance. A warrior whose chosen weapon is cinema, Gerima has been at ...

Filmmaker Haile Gerima is having a long overdue moment and he’s a little conflicted about it. The 75-year-old director of “Bush Mama” and “Ashes and Embers” has proudly operated outside of mainstream ...

Filmmaker Haile Gerima, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion movement, is officially making his return to feature filmmaking with Black Lions – Roman Wolves, a documentary ...

The 4K restoration of the 1993 feature — following a woman who journeys back in time to a plantation in North America — is being re-released by DuVernay's Array banner and lands on Netflix on Sept. 24 ...

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 Ethiopian-born filmmaker’s groundbreaking Ghana-set 1993 feature, newly remastered by Ava DuVernay's Array and streaming on Netflix, explores the legacy of slavery and doubles as a study of the ...

For 50 years, Haile Gerima has been a beacon for genuine independence, free both from the strictures of the film industry and the constraints of conventional storytelling. The Ethiopian-born, ...

To celebrate Black history month, Ava DuVernay’s indie distribution, arts and advocacy collective Array has produced “28 Days of ‘Sankofa,'” an event series where select cinemas, universities and ...

The iconoclastic filmmaker, whose career spans five decades, reflects on his "lifetime struggle" to survive in an environment that insists on him being anything but himself. The Haile Gerima story is ...

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes director Haile Gerima, who is to receive a Vantage Award from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures this month. In October, the museum will host a ...