- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- September 6, 1942
- Place of Birth
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Died
- April 1, 2012
Jamaa Fanaka
Jamaa Fanaka was an American filmmaker. He is best known for his 1979 film, Penitentiary, and is one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion film movement. The L.A. Rebellion film movement, sometimes referred to as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to the new generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School in the late-1960s to the late-1980s and have created a quality Black Cinema that provides an alternative to classical Hollywood cinema. Fanaka died on April 1, 2012.
Filmography
movieMacked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004 · Self
movieStreet Wars
1991 · Writer, Director
moviePenitentiary III
1987 · Director, Producer, Writer
moviePenitentiary II
1982 · Director, Writer, Producer
moviePenitentiary
1979 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieEmma Mae
1976 · Director, Producer, Writer
movieWelcome Home Brother Charles
1975 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
movieA Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan
1972 · , Producer, Director, Editor, Writer