Moges Tafesse

  • Moges Tafesse
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Film director, Producer, Screenwriter
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

Ethiopian Filmmaker.

Moges TAFESSE is a film and TV Director, producer, screeenwriter. He is known for Enchained (2019, Feature) and A Season for Dancing (2018, Documentary).

Birth Date: February 14, 1976
Nickname: Maggi
Birth City: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Height: 1.76
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Ethiopia

Quotes
"Film is my demanding mistress" Ingman Bergman

Moges TAFESSE is a documentary filmmaker and TV producer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He also produces and directs a weekly TV show "Ene ‘Miteyekew (My Quest)". Currently, he has completed a documentary film on interracial adoption entitled "A Season for Dancing (www.aseasonfordancing.com).
He established and has been running Synergy Habesha Films and Communications with the motto "Empowering Community through Media" for the past ten years (www.synergyhabesha.com).
Qualification: PhD in Social Work and Social Development, Addis Ababa University, MA in International Studies, Louisiana Baptist University; MSW in Social Work, Addis Ababa Universality. Moges has also attended extensive training on Directing and Script writing by UNESCO-IICBA. Media Working Groups, Kentucky; Grand Rapids Community Media Center, Michigan; Ethiopian Film Initiative, Goethe- Institute. Also a training on Film Financing by International Emerging Film Talents Association (IEFTA) in Monaco.

Filmography

2019 - Enchained, Feature
* Director, Producer, Writer

2018 - A Season for Dancing, Documentary
* Director, Producer

Education
Addis Ababa University
Social Work and Social Development
2006 - 2013

Source:
https://filmfreeway.com/MogesTafesse

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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