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Jamaa Fanaka (born Walter Gordon; September 6, 1942 – April 1, 2012) was an American filmmaker. He is best known for his 1979 film, Penitentiary, and was one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion film movement.
Jamaa Fanaka, a filmmaker who had considerable success in 1979 with “Penitentiary,” a feature-length movie he made while still in film school, but who claimed to have been blacklisted afterward...
Jamaa Fanaka was born on 6 September 1942 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975), Street Wars (1991) and Penitentiary II (1982). He died on 1 April 2012 in South Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Apr 4, 2012 · Jamaa Fanaka, who emerged as a dynamic black filmmaker with his gritty independent 1979 film “Penitentiary” and later made headlines with his legal battles alleging widespread...
Apr 1, 2012 · Jamaa Fanaka was a pioneering African American filmmaker who made four features while studying at UCLA. His films, such as Penitentiary and Emma Mae, explored themes of race, class, and justice in a subversive and surreal style.
Penitentiary (1979) was the last film Jamaa Fanaka made whilst enrolled as a UCLA film student. It was the highest-grossing independent movie of that year and led to Fanaka making Penitentiary II (1982) for United Artists and then Penitentiary III (1987) for The Cannon Group.
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Jamaa Fanaka was the most prolific college filmmaker of all time. Once he left college he found Hollywood to not be so inclusive. He decided to fight The Industry with a series of lawsuits with the intention of making real change for minority filmmakers.
