Merawi Gerima
Birth : , Washington, District of Columbia, USA
History
Merawi Gerima, is a filmmaker from Washington DC. This origin informs his work and his community-centered orientation. "Residue", his first feature, was a total communal endeavor, made possible primarily by the effort of the people it attempts to portray. At the very least, it is an archive of their existence which stands in defiance of their attempted erasure by gentrification.
Producer
A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
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A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
Editor
A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
Writer
A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
Director
A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
Sound Recordist
Edge of Red is an interdisciplinary, non-linear, narrative and dance short film that follows Leaf, a curious yet impressionable 6-year-old girl, on her journey through joy, sadness, confusion and enlightenment as she tries to make sense of her identity as it relates to her proximity to death, her family, environment and connection to the Spiritual plane.
Sound Editor
Edge of Red is an interdisciplinary, non-linear, narrative and dance short film that follows Leaf, a curious yet impressionable 6-year-old girl, on her journey through joy, sadness, confusion and enlightenment as she tries to make sense of her identity as it relates to her proximity to death, her family, environment and connection to the Spiritual plane.
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Edge of Red is an interdisciplinary, non-linear, narrative and dance short film that follows Leaf, a curious yet impressionable 6-year-old girl, on her journey through joy, sadness, confusion and enlightenment as she tries to make sense of her identity as it relates to her proximity to death, her family, environment and connection to the Spiritual plane.
Gaffer
Through the spirit of an ancestor, a woman finds her way back to the source of her joy. On her journey, she discovers the importance of passing tradition forward.
Producer
A solitary woman that lives in a nursing home faces the now demented man that decades ago broke her heart.
Director of Photography
A desensitized immigration officer gets a case that forces him to reconcile with his humanity.
Sound Editor
Iman and The Light Warriors is a magical realism story about the power of pure love and a community banding together to empower a young king through emotional intelligence.
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Iman and The Light Warriors is a magical realism story about the power of pure love and a community banding together to empower a young king through emotional intelligence.
Camera Operator
Alejandra is a criminalized organizer fighting against abortion restrictions and mass incarceration, but she is also facing deportation, leading to the biggest battle of her life. As her court case draws near, she reckons with a past mistake and holes in the US legal system.
Production Assistant
In a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.
Grip
A recovering junkie contemplates having an abortion while seeking help from her estranged father.
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Set Decoration
The story is focused around Washington Dc in the life of three young African American childhood friends, as they deal with their friendship, relationships and social predicaments in the span of a long weekend.
