Haile Gerima

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 LA Rebellion film movement also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers Since 1975 Haile has been a film professor at Howard University in Washington DC He is best known for Sankofa 1993 which won two awards In 1970 he moved to California to attend the University of California where he earned Bachelors and Masters of Fine Arts degrees in film He was part of a generation of new black filmmakers who became known as the Los Angeles School of Black filmmakers along with Charles Burnett Killer of Sheep Jamaa Fanaka Penitentiary Ben Caldwell I and I Larry Clark and Julie Dash Daughters of the Dust