The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Eritrea
This page contains a list of the greatest Eritrean Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Eritrea. This makes Eritrea the birth place of the 79th most number of Film Directors behind New Caledonia, and Indonesia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Eritrean Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Eritrean Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Gianfranco Rosi (b. 1963)
With an HPI of 43.15, Gianfranco Rosi is the most famous Eritrean Film Director. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Gianfranco Rosi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒaɱˈfraŋko ˈrɔːzi]; born 30 November 1963) is an Italian-American documentary filmmaker. His 2013 film Sacro GRA won the Golden Lion at the 70th Venice Film Festival, while his 2016 film Fire at Sea won the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin Film Festival. Rosi is the only documentary filmmaker to win two highest awards at the three major European film festivals (Venice, Berlin, and Cannes) and is the only director besides Michael Haneke, Ang Lee, Ken Loach, and Jafar Panahi to do so in the 21st century. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Fire at Sea.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Eritrean film directors born between 1963 and 1963. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Eritrean film directors include Gianfranco Rosi.
