The Oromaye Workshops (2015- )
30-second excerpt of Fear Of The Dark, a film by Addis Ababa University students in a Filmmaking 1 workshop, 2016
A workshop with the inaugural class of MFA film students at Addis Ababa University used the novel to open rare space for frank and sometimes dangerous conversation about life in Ethiopia today. Tellingly, the films participants made address fear, depression and self-censorship and contain no on-screen dialogue. For these participants, silence is still the story.