# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/salem-mekuria
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:44:34.594Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/salem-mekuria"
name: "Salem Mekuria"
slug: "salem-mekuria"
description: "Salem Mekuria is an Ethiopian-born independent filmmaker, video artist and educator living in the United States."
tagline: "Ethiopian film director, video artist, academic"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/m241KBSO1bQ6LWaPlVSPXbKlm2H.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.03
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.468178666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577298/"
    handle:    "nm0577298"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://salemmekuria.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Mekuria"
    title: "Salem Mekuria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "سالم ميكوريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "ساليم ميكوريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Mekuria"
    title: "Salem Mekuria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Mekuria"
    title: "Salem Mekuria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Mekuria"
    title: "Salem Mekuria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Mekuria"
    title: "Salem Mekuria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9D_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94"
    title: "סאלם מקוריה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27805320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1888103"
    title: "Salem Mekuria"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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