Ethiopia: Gerima on the Representation of African Intellectuals in Film
Ethiopian independent filmmaker and film professor, Haile Gerima, was on NPR a few days ago talking to Michel Martin as his film, Teza, moves on to Detriot, Minneapolis and then L.A on its tailored-limited patterned release.
He talks about black filmmaking, Precious: based on the novel Push by Sappihre and the fact that in the 21st century there still isn't a black person or black owned film studio somewhere that can green light an uncompromised black movie. He also talks about characters in Teza representing African intellectuals who are rarely seen in movies:
The African intellectual, what he or she is thinking about is never in movies, it's never a story, its not even a novel. That's why I was hungry to tell this story, because for me, this displacement... everybody looks at foreigners only as just devoted immigrants; the turmoil of your body being here, your brain at home where you grew up is never being in movies.Back in April, he talks with Tigist Selam about the lack of a general economic infrastructure for making movies about non-white people:
H/T: Phyllis
