Fugitive Filmmaking: Black Lions – Roman Wolves’ Haile Gerima on the 30-year journey behind his anti-colonial epic

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At the fifteenth annual BlackStar Film Festival, where he presented the North American premiere of his five-part, ten-hour documentary opus, legendary filmmaker Haile Gerima spoke with Adesola Thomas about the colonial “booby traps” embedded in cinema and the importance of first liberating oneself.