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 98th most number of Film Directors behind Uzbekistan, and Venezuela.
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 49.85, 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 filmmaker. Most known for his documentaries, including 2013's Sacro GRA, for which he won the Golden Lion, and 2016's Fire at Sea, for which won the Golden Bear and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. 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 one of the few director to do it in the 21st century alongside Michael Haneke, Ang Lee, Ken Loach and Jafar Panahi.
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.
