Mehret Mandefro

Mehret Mandefro (wavutse 1977) ni Umunyetiyopiya-Umunyamerika utunganya firime / seri za televiziyo, umwanditsi, umuganga na antropropologue . ^[1] ^[2] Ni umuyobozi w'itsinda rya Indaba Africa, akaba yarashinze ikigo cya Realness Institute ^[3] akaba ari nawe washinze Truth Aid Media ^[4] akaba n'umwe mu bagize inama y'abajyanama mu Harvest Fund. ^[5] Yahawe kandi igihembo cya Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship kubanyamerika bashya (2001) maze muri 2007 yicara nkumwe mubantu 41 bazwi cyane muri Amerika. ^[6] ^[7] Muri 2016, yahawe icyubahiro na Carnegie Corporation ya New York nk'umwe mu Bimukira bakomeye bo muri Amerika. ^[8]

Ubuzima n'uburere

Mandefro yavukiye i Addis Abeba, muri Etiyopiya mu 1977, akurira muri Alegizandiriya, muri Virijiniya, muri Amerika. Se, Ayalew Mandefro, yari Minisitiri w’ingabo muri Etiyopiya na nyina Tsedale K. Mandefro. Umuryango we wahungiye muri Amerika nyuma y’ubutegetsi bwa gikomunisiti bwa Etiyopiya bwagerageje kwica se. Yize mu ishuri ryisumbuye rya siyansi n’ikoranabuhanga rya Thomas Jefferson arangiza icyiciro cya mbere cya kaminuza n’ubuvuzi muri kaminuza ya Harvard . Yakomeje impamyabumenyi ihanitse mu buzima rusange bw’abaturage ku ishuri ry’i Londere ry’isuku n’ubuvuzi bwa Tropical nka Scholar ya Fulbright . Yasoje gahunda ya Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program muri kaminuza ya Pennsylvania yibanda ku mibereho y’ubuzima akomeza gukurikirana impamyabumenyi ya PhD muri Anthropologie y’umuco muri kaminuza ya Temple aho yarangirije igitabo cyerekeye ishingwa ry’ubuzima bw’Abanyamerika. politiki muri guverinoma ihuriweho na leta. ^[9] Aragenda ku kumenyereza muri internal medicine muri Montefiore Medical Center na Albert Einstein College of Medicine aho bakurikirana ubushakashatsi ku ubusumbane SIDA mu bagore ^[10] ^[11]

Mandefro kandi yari Umukozi wa White House mu butegetsi bwa Obama . ^[12]

Umwuga

Mandefro numwe mubahawe icyubahiro muri 2009 muri Black Girls Rock Awards, ahabwa igihembo cyumuganda. Muri Werurwe 2014, yari umwe mu bagore bubashywe mu birori byo kwizihiza umunsi mpuzamahanga w’abagore mu mujyi wa New York, na WomenWerk. ^[13] Muri 2014 kandi, yakoranye na firime Difret, iyobowe na Zeresenay Berhane Mehari . ^[14] ^[15] ^[16] ^[17]

Yakoranye firime na Zeresenay Berhane ya 2019 yitwa,Sweetness in the Belly, hamwe na Adrian Sturges, Laura Bickford na Fiona Druckenmiller. ^[18] Muri uwo mwaka, documentaire yayoboye yise " The Loving Generation ", yatorewe igihembo cya Webby People Voice Award. ^[19] Iyi filime yemejwe ku mugaragaro ko izerekanwa ku rwego mpuzamahanga mu iserukiramuco mpuzamahanga rya Filimi rya Toronto (TIFF). ^[20]

Mu iserukiramuco rya sinema rya Cannes 2019 ryabereye muri Palais Des Festivals, i Cannes, mu Bufaransa, yagiriye inama abakora amafilime yo muri Afurika kubaka ubufatanye bufatika bakorana, agaragaza ko ibindi bihugu bya Afurika bishobora kwigira kuri Nollywood kugira ngo biteze imbere mu nganda zabo. ^[21] ^[22]

We, hamwe n’umuyobozi wa firime, Abraham Gezahagne, muri Gashyantare 2020 yari ahagarariye Etiyopiya muri Berlinale Africa Hub, aho yerekanaga amahirwe aboneka hamwe n’ibibazo byugarije inganda za firime na televiziyo mu gihugu. ^[23]

We, afatanije na Alicia Keys, Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Elliott Halpern na Elizabeth Trojian, umuyobozi mukuru bakoze documentaire,How It Feels To Be Free, ishingiye ku gitabo cya Ruth Feldstein,How It Feels To Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement, ziyobowe na Yoruba Richen kandi zigomba kwerekanwa bwa mbere mu itumba 2021 na PBS na WNET . ^[24] ^[25]

Amashusho

Umwaka	Film	Uruhare	Ubwoko
2021	How It Feels To Be Free	Umufatanyabikorwa mukuru	Inyandiko
2019	The Loving Generation	Umuyobozi-hamwe, hamwe-hamwe	Inyandiko
2019	Sweetness in the Belly	Umufatanyabikorwa mukuru	Ikinamico
2017	Little White Lie	Producer / umwanditsi	Inyandiko
2014	Difret	Producer	Ikinamico

references

[1] ttps://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/mehret-mandefro/

[2] "Archive copy". Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2021-11-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] ttps://variety.com/2020/film/news/sundance-rotterdam-realness-institute-african-producers-1234710821/

[4] ttp://www.tadias.com/06/26/2020/ethiopian-filmmakers-abraham-gezahagne-and-yared-zeleke-selected-for-2020-realness-screenwriters-residency/

[5] ttps://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2018/04/11/these-three-mds-have-a-prescription-for-curing-student-debt/?sh=1dc0bb8c428d

[6] ttps://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/mehret-mandefro

[7] "Archive copy". Archived from the original on 2022-10-28. Retrieved 2021-11-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[8] ttps://armenianweekly.com/2016/06/30/afeyan-carnegie/

[9] "Archive copy". Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2021-11-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[10] ttp://www.tadias.com/03/08/2012/celebrating-international-womens-history-month-qa-with-dr-mehret-mandefro/

[11] ttps://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/change-power-dynamics-relationships-article-1.264328

[12] ttp://www.tadias.com/06/14/2010/nbc%E2%80%99s-tom-brokaw-highlights-white-house-fellow-mehret-mandefro/

[13] ttps://www.bellanaija.com/2014/03/its-the-century-of-the-african-woman-womenwerk-celebrates-interational-womens-day-in-new-york/

[14] {{cite web}}: Empty citation (help)https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/difret-sundance-review-674060

[15] ttp://www.tadias.com/02/11/2014/tadias-interview-with-difret-director-and-producer/

[16] ttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-sundance-difret-20140122-story.html

[17] ttps://www.jacksonville.com/article/20160311/NEWS/801244782

[18] ttp://www.tadias.com/04/11/2019/spotlight-mehret-mandefros-the-loving-generation-up-for-webby-award/

[19] ttps://scannain.com/featured/feature-irish-films-to-watch-out-for-in-2019/

[20] ttps://scannain.com/irish/abroad/tiff-19-irish-2/

[21] ttps://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/05/21/movie-director-afolayan-decries-segregation-in-filmmaking-in-africa/

[22] ttps://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/movies/10-nollywood-stars-to-attend-the-cannes-film-festival-2019/8gxgksc

[23] ttps://variety.com/2020/film/entertainment-industry/berlinale-2020-ethiopia-africa-hub-1203512155/

[24] ttps://realscreen.com/2020/07/28/pbs-thirteen-prep-how-it-feels-to-be-free-doc-with-alicia-keys-yap-films/

[25] ttps://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/10-thoughts-after-watching-the-loving-generation-docume-1823357499

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