{"id":64,"date":"2009-12-01T13:39:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T21:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfaf.pcc.edu.s67522.gridserver.com\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2018-10-16T12:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T20:53:58","slug":"artist-biographies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2016\/press\/festival-highlights\/artist-biographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merzak Allouache<\/h4>\n

\"\"Merzak Allouache\u00a0(born 6 October 1944) is an Algerian\u00a0film director\u00a0and\u00a0screenwriter. He has directed 18 films since 1976. His 1976 film\u00a0Omar Gatlato<\/i>\u00a0was entered into the\u00a010th Moscow International Film Festival\u00a0where it won the Silver Prize. His 1996\u00a0Salut cousin!<\/i>\u00a0was\u00a0submitted to the 69th Academy Awards\u00a0in the category for Best Foreign Language Film.<\/p>\n

His 2011 film\u00a0Normal!<\/i>\u00a0won the award for Best Film at the 2011\u00a0Doha Tribeca Film Festival.\u00a0In 2012, his film\u00a0The Repentant<\/i>\u00a0was screened in the\u00a0Directors’ Fortnight\u00a0section at the\u00a02012 Cannes Film Festival.\u00a0It won the FIPRESCI\u00a0Award for Best Asian Film at the\u00a017th International Film Festival of Kerala.<\/p>\n

Please join us in welcoming Algeria\u2019s foremost film director, Merzak Allouache, on Opening Night, Friday, February 5, 2016. Mr. Allouache will introduce and discuss his film The Rooftops<\/a><\/i> at two screenings, 6:00 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd.<\/div>\n

Shirley Neal<\/h4>\n

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Emmy-award-winning producer, writer, journalist, and President of Park Hill Entertainment, a Hollywood-based television production and media firm. Among her film credits are the documentaries,\u00a0Passport to Sierra Leone, Inside TVLand: African Americans in Television, Remarkable Journey,\u00a0and\u00a0Tuskegee Airmen.\u00a0Neal has filmed in more than twenty African countries including throughout Rwanda, where she produced the documentaries,\u00a0Rwanda the Renaissance, Hooray for Hillywood, Inganzo: A Day of Art;\u00a0and\u00a0In Remembrance: Voices From Rwanda. Her dramatic, lifestyles, live event, and entertainment program- ming for U.S. television has been broadcast on NBC, CBS, A&E, TVLand, The Africa Channel, Spike TV, BET, The Travel Channel, and TVOne, as well as through syndication.\u00a0INTORE<\/a>\u00a0is her second film collaboration with Kabera.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yared Zeleke<\/h4>\n

Yared Zeleke, Ethiopia, director of “Lamb<\/a>” was born in Ethiopia in 1978. He holds a bachelors degree in International Development from Clark University (United States) and studied cinema at New York University, majoring in writing and directing. He worked for a number of NGOs in the United States, Ethiopia, Namibia, and Norway, before embarking on a directing career.<\/p>\n

Yared has written, produced, directed and edited several short documentaries (Allula) and fiction shorts (Housewarming). He has also worked with the director Joshua Atesh Litle on the documentary The Furious Force of Rhymes, which received a number of awards. In Ethiopia, his native country, he has edited documentary films for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. In 2015, Yared completed his first feature-length movie, called Lamb, filmed on the high plateaux of Northern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

Yared will be speaking after both screenings of Lamb:\u00a0 12 noon <\/span><\/span>on February 25th<\/span><\/span> and 7 pm on February 26.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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