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Currently, Haile Gerima is 78 years, 1 months and 16 days old. Haile Gerima will celebrate 79rd birthday on a Tuesday 4th of March 2025. Below we countdown to Haile Gerima upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Haile Gerima |
| Occupation | Director |
| Age | 78 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | March 4, 1946 (Gondar, Ethiopia) |
| Birthday | March 4 |
| Town/City | Gondar, Ethiopia |
| Nationality | Ethiopia |
Haile Gerima’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Haile Gerima was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Highly acclaimed filmmaker and prominent leader in the L.A. Rebellion film movement. He was best known for 1993's Sankofa about the African slave trade.
His training at the University of California in 1970 introduced him to the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers to which such artists as Jamaa Fanaka, Ben Caldwell, and Larry Clark belonged.
His 1985 documentary After Winter: Sterling Brown profiled the legendary black poet Sterling Allen Brown.
He and his wife, filmmaker Sirikiana Aina, founded the distribution company Mypheduh Films Inc. in 1984.
He and Charles Burnett, Director of 1977's Killer of Sheep, were both members of the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers.
