Discover Top Non-Fiction Film Directors in Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Beza Hailu Lemma is an Ethiopian filmmaker, fixer, and field producer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has written, directed, and independently produced factual tv content and several short films, including Ballad of the Spirits (2017) and Adeby Abeba (2019). He has also worked on countless foreign productions as a fixer and field producer, most prominently on the Al Jazeera documentary series "My Ethiopia" (2019). Beza was an artist in residence at the Africa Center in Australia (2017) and the Realness Screen Writing Residency (2019) in South Africa. He has also participated in Berlinale Talents, IEFTA Addis to Cannes Program, TIFF Filmmakers Lab, and Produire au Sud.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Production Company
• Creative Director
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Post-Production Manager
• Documentary DP

Spanish-Ethiopian filmmaker & photographer based in Ethiopia since 2010. With a deep understanding of the country and Africa in general, multilingual (Spanish, English, Italian, Amharic), married to an Ethiopian-American artist, forming a vibrant multicultural family of six. Through traveling and filmmaking, I have found immense joy in my work, embracing it with the curiosity and wonder of a child.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Commercial DP
• Field Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Creative Director
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Post-Production Manager
• Landscape Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Translator
• Sound Designer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Editor
• Transcriber
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Digital Content Creator

Tamara Dawit merges arts and social justice together through her projects. For ten years she led the 411 Initiative For Change, an arts organization for which she produced multi arts presentations that toured to over 500,000 young people across Canada. Tamara has extensive experience working in the music industry both in North America and Ethiopia. Tamara produced the documentaries Forgotten Children (2007, EOne) and Girls of Latitude(2008, MTV/CTV) and she produced and directed Grandma Knows Best? (2014, Bravofactual/Planet Africa/Globe&Mail), a short documentary exploring the thirty-year friendship between her two grandmothers. Finding Sally (CBC) is her first feature documentary. Tamara has been selected to participate in the following programs: Durban Talent Lab (2016), Berlin Talent Lab (2015), and Reel World Lab at the Toronto International Film Festival (2014). Tamara is of Ethiopian, Eritrean, Ukrainian and British ancestry. Tamara is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where she splits her time between working on interactive productions, music and film projects.

• Field Producer
• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Production Assistant
• Creative Director
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director

Melkamu Haile, a filmmaker and a screen writer with a passion for storytelling. Melkamu Haile has been in the film industry for number of years and has worked on a variety of projects, including commercials, television series, and short films. Overall, Melkamu Haile is a dedicated filmmaker & screenwriter who is passionate about his craft. He is always looking for new and exciting projects to work on and is committed to creating stories that entertain, inspire, and move audiences. He understand the importance of working closely with directors, producers, and other members of the creative team to bring a project to life. He is open to feedback and always willing to make changes to their scripts in order to improve the final product.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Production Company
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

Based in Addis Ababa, Yikunoamlak Mulugeta is a talented Filmmaker and TV Producer. He obtained his MBA in Small and Medium Enterprise Management from Leipzig University in Germany and has since spent over a decade actively working in the industry. Yikunoamlak has lent his expertise to some of the most prestigious TV stations in the country including KANA TV, EBS TV, and DSTV’s ABOL TV, where he contributed as a Content Producer and Director. He aspires to create movies that celebrate the varied and rich history and culture of his home country, Ethiopia and beyond, in Africa.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Production Company
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Landscape Photographer
• Copy Editor
• Fixer
• Field Producer

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer