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Jamaa Fanaka

Jamaa Fanaka

Born: September 6, 1942
Died: April 1, 2012
in Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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.

Movies for Jamaa Fanaka...

Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Title: Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2004
Type: Movie
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Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s. Featuring interviews with key actors and filmmakers, the documentary explores the origins of blaxploitation, and the controversial history of Hollywood's most misunderstood genre.
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A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan
Title: A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust” presented with a non-synchronous soundtrack and superimposed over a remake of Super Fly (1972). Often out of focus with an overactive camera, the film immediately exudes nervous energy, but unlike Priest’s elegant cocaine consumption in Super Fly, Willie’s arm gushes blood as he injects heroin. A morality tale in two reels. —Jan-Christopher Horak
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