Ava DuVernay‘s Array Releasing has acquired director Haile Gerima’s rarely-seen classic Ashes And Embers and will give it full restoration, followed in February by the film’s first-ever theatrical release.
Array Releasing today announced the acquisition of the celebrated auteur Haile Gerima’s rarely seen cinematic achievement ASHES AND EMBERS, winner of the FIPRESSCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 1983.
Array Releasing, the LA-based film collective founded by filmmaker Ava DuVernay, has acquired the never-before-released “Ashes and Embers,” one of the landmark films of Haile Gerima.
A disillusioned veteran of the Vietnam War attempts to come to terms with his past and his current place as a black man in America in director Haile Gerima’s ASHES AND EMBERS.