TEZA wins GOLDEN STALLION
The African Film Festival known as FESCAPO handed out awards
for top African films in Burkino Faso over the weekend. The winning
film that cantered off with the Gold Stallion Award was TEZA a moving
film about the "Red Terror" campaign of Mengitsu Haile Mariam's era
as a leader of Ethiopia following the coup that ousted Emperor
Salassie in the mid-1970's. The film addressed emigration, racism and
the role of Women in War. The director was not there to receive the
award.
Second place trophy went to the South African film " Nothing but the
Truth" while Third place was won by the Algerian comedy "Masquarade"
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- Submitted By: slydog | 8 months ago: Sunday, March 8, 2009 | 10:13 AM ET A film about the brutal regime of Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam took top prize at Fescapo — Africa's biggest film festival. Haile Gerima's Teza won the Golden Stallion of Yennenga for best film ...
- News Source: The Daily Star | 8 months agoA film depicting the horrifically brutal regime of Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in the 1970s and 1980s took top honours Saturday at Africa's main film festival. "Teza" by US-based, Ethiopian-born director Haile Gerima was the jury's...
- News Source: The independent | 8 months agoIt must be something of a relief for Haile Gerima that his film, Teza, has just been voted Africa’s best movie. After all, it took him 14 years to make it. So meticulous is the award-winning Ethiopian-born, US-based director that he refused to...
- News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 8 months agoA film about the brutal regime of Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam took top prize at Fescapo — Africa's biggest film festival. Haile Gerima's Teza won the Golden Stallion of Yennenga for best film on Saturday at a ceremony in Ouagadougou,...
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- Blog Source: ethiosun.com“Teza” by US-based, Ethiopian-born director Haile Gerima was the jury’s unanimous choice for this year’s Golden Stallion of Yennenga, the award for best film at the gathering in Ouagadougou, considered Africa’s Oscars. ... The Bronze
- Blog Source: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.comThe Lotte Lehman Foundation A selection from Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” handwritten and autographed by the composer, from an auction conducted by the Lotte Lehman Foundation. Ned Rorem, Stephen Sondheim and John Corigliano ...
- Blog Source: selamafrica.blogspot.comThe Ethiopian film "Teza" by director Haile Gerima took the Golden Stallion of Yennenga on Saturday for best film at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival. It deals with big themes -- emigration, return, dictatorship, racism, ... The Bronze
- Blog Source: www.timesoftheinternet.comAmong the favourites to win is "Teza," a blood-drenched epic of Ethiopia under the brutal rule of Haile Mariam Mengistu in the 1970s and 1980s, by director Haile Gerima. On Friday the film already won a UN- and World Bank-sponsored ...
- Blog Source: www.abugidainfo.comThe Ethiopian film “Teza” by director Haile Gerima took the Golden Stallion of Yennenga on Saturday for best film at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival. ... The Bronze Stallion went to audience favourite “Mascarades” (Masquerades) ,
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