Gender

Female

Location

Oakland, CA

Filmmakers: What is your primary skill and where do you work most?

Actor Socal, Socal Directing, Writer Norcal, Writer Socal

My current Project Title:

Feature film "Forgiveness for whom?"

I describe myself as a

SFF Filmmaker

About me - current project:

Ariam Weldeab is an Eritrean born artist, poet, Author, TV host, Radio host and a movie director. Over the past one decade, she has worked in a wide variety of professional capacities from a private sector to a national radio and television and has achieved many awards. Thus far, Ariam has written and directed two films “ Yoel Ab Fetene” and “Yiqre Nmen / Forgiveness for Whom” and three big musical and sctech dramas and short dramas. "Forgiveness for whom?" was awarded as ‘Achievement in Narrative Film’ at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival CA in 2017. ‘Forgiveness for Whom’ was also played in the AMC theatre in Dallas, TX and received very good feedback from audiences. In 2014 Ariam published a book that contains poems and short stories and it was the bestseller book in that year in Eritrea. Ariam was also a host for the Art program in the Eritrean national Television, a host for the youth program in Eritrean National Radio between the years 2009 and 2013. In addition she is the first in Eritrea to have an Independent TV show called ‘Aru-Show’. Recently Ariam was working on teaching a course called ‘An Introduction to Art’ to an interested groups in with Eritrean community of Santa Clara in collabration with GCEA in Oakland, CA.

Laurels, awards and other accomplishments:

"Achievement in Narrative" award in Silicon Valley African Film Festival CA, 2017.

My home region is:

Bay Area