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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.
Sep 23, 2019 · by Kaleem Aftab. 23/09/2019 - Cineuropa spoke to Zeresenay Berhane Mehari about various aspects of Sweetness in the Belly, his adaptation of the Camilla Gibb book. Zeresenay Berhane Mehari is an Ethiopian-born filmmaker, whose first feature, Difret, about forced marriages, won audience awards at Sundance and Berlin.
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.
Jul 10, 2019 · by Davide Abbatescianni. 10/07/2019 - The Ethiopian filmmaker’s new movie is an adaptation of Camilla Gibb’s bestselling novel of the same name. Director Zeresenay Berhane Mehari. Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay “Zee” Berhane Mehari is now working on his second feature, entitled Sweetness in the Belly [+.
- Davide Abbatescianni
- 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. Producer & Director. Haile - Addis Pictures. Zeresenay Berhane Mehari is an award-winning writer/director born and raised in Ethiopia.
Zeresenay MEHARI (Ethiopia) is an author, director and producer. After attending film school in the United States, one of his projects was to produce documentary Africa Unite (Stephanie Black, 2008), about a visit by Bob Marley's family to Ethiopia after the latter's decease.
