# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/haile-gerima
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:47:35.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/haile-gerima"
name: "Haile Gerima"
slug: "haile-gerima"
description: "Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian 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 School of Black Filmmakers. Since 1975, Haile has been a film professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is best known for Sankofa (1993), which won two awards."
tagline: "Ethiopian director, film professor, philosopher, and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Haile_Gerima-62029.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.8495
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314340/"
    handle:    "nm0314340"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "هايلي جيريما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "جيريما هايل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFl%C3%A9_Gerima"
    title: "Haïlé Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%94"
    title: "היילה גרימה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail%C3%A9_Gerima"
    title: "Hailé Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72194"
    title: "Haile Gerima"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump