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Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (born 1974), is an Ethiopian filmmaker. He is notable as the director of critically acclaimed films Difret and Sweetness in the Belly. Apart from cinema, he is the co-founder and Head of Original Content for Kana Television, the number-one rated free-to-air, private satellite entertainment TV channel in Ethiopia.
Zeresenay Mehari is known for Difret (2014), Sweetness in the Belly (2019) and Coda (2006). More at IMDbPro. Contact info.
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Sep 23, 2019 · Zeresenay Berhane Mehari is an Ethiopian-born filmmaker, whose first feature, Difret, about forced marriages, won audience awards at Sundance and Berlin. His sophomore film, Sweetness in the Belly [+.
- Find the 1-in-3,000 Person Who Is Right for Your Project. Two weeks before we started filming, I was ready to stop production because we couldn't find [an actress to play] the little girl.
- Be Ready to Write the $21,000 Check That Will Give You Peace of Mind. We had 2 million dollars' worth of gear with us—almost 2,000 pounds of gear. [The insurance check] was the biggest check we wrote.
- Know That You Will Have to Come Up with a Donkey-and-Mule Solution on the Fly. Filming on location in Ethiopia's capital city, Addis Ababa, and in the rural countryside, infrastructure was a big problem.
- Remember the Little Word That Can Protect Your Work. [During the initial financing stages], a couple of producers heard about the story; they thought the script was really good and offered to buy it.
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari is an Ethiopian born filmmaker currently working between the US and Ethiopia. He left Ethiopia in 1996 to obtain an Associate Arts degree in Film Production from De Anza College in Cupertino, California.
Presented by Angelina Jolie, Ethiopian director Zeresenay Berhane Mehari’s critically-acclaimed feature film debut “Difret” is now streaming on Netflix in the USA.
Jan 13, 2014 · Mehari’s Ethiopian World Cinema Dramatic competition entry recounts the story of an Ethiopian lawyer who defends a 14-year-old girl charged with killing a man who attempts to abduct her into ...
