An Evening With Film Maker Haile Gerima

International Sun 04-04-2010

An Evening With Film Maker Haile Gerima
By Skoto Gallery

Horn of Africa Arts Council and Skoto Gallery cordially Invite You to an evening with acclaimed Film-maker Haile Gerima in celebration of the NYC Premiere of his latest film TEZA on Thursday, April 8, 6-8pm at Skoto Gallery.

Sponsors: Bati Restaurant, Sheba Tej/Tsion Enterprises LLC; Settepani.

Artist Biography

Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian-born, world-renowned independent filmmaker who studied at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, and subsequently at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Gerima has taught film at Howard University in Washington, D.C. since 1975, and has been producing independent films of distinction for over 35 years, including his groundbreaking 1993 film Sankofa.

This historically inspired dramatic tale of African resistance to slavery was called “poetic and precisely detailed” by the New York Times. Gerima’s earlier works include the films Harvest: 3000 Years, which Martin Scorsese described as having, “a particular kind of urgency which few pictures possess;” and Bush Mama, which the Washington Post reported, “crackle[d] with energy,” with “fury shak[ing] the very frame.”

TEZA is Gerima's latest feature release, his eleventh cinematic production and seventh dramatic film. It tells a story of hope, loss and reminiscence through the eyes of Anberber, an idealistic, young doctor and intellectual, displaced from his homeland of Ethiopia for many years.

TEZA is currently on exhibition in NYC, at Lincoln Plaza Cinema, (1886 Broadway, at 62nd Street). The film opens in Seattle on April 16th and in France on April 28th.

TEZA by Film artist Haile Gerima

Check www.tezathemovie.com for show times.

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