–<i>The Athlete</i>: a movie about the Ethiopian barefooted Olympic champion

Ashagrie, Aboneh

doi:10.1080/13696815.2013.767192

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“…Unlike the earlier marathon runner docudrama/biopic about Haile Gebreselasie, Endurance (1998), released before cinema-going underwent a renaissance in Ethiopia in 2002, The Athlete was screened for a limited duration in Matti Multiplex in Addis Ababa to positive reviews soon after its completion in 2009. In fact the film was favourably reviewed both in Ethiopia and during its tour of international film festivals and limited release in cinemas in Europe and America prior to the 2012 London Olympics (see Thomas, 2013;Ashagrie 2013). This in itself is a notable feat as later 'festival films' such as Difret (2014) and Lamb (2015) were unable to build on the limited success The Athlete achieved in Addis Ababa.…”

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“…This in itself is a notable feat as later 'festival films' such as Difret (2014) and Lamb (2015) were unable to build on the limited success The Athlete achieved in Addis Ababa. 3 Despite this, however, The Athlete was only briefly screened in Ethiopia and according to Aboneh Ashagrie (2013), this was because the film was not suited to the commercial conditions underpinning the Amharic film industry. A serious sports biopic seemed to present a great gamble for exhibitors often beholden to short-term financial constraints that were more likely to be met by screening the latest films associated with tried and tested local genres and featuring local stars.…”

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Contesting visions of Ethiopia in two Amharic sports films

Thomas¹

2020

Sport, Film and National Culture

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Contesting visions of Ethiopia in two Amharic sports films

Thomas¹

2020

Sport, Film and National Culture

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“…Bikila and Ethiopia are inextricably tied together. He is recreated as a saintly person: extremely humble, modest, patient, very polite and a family man (Ashagrie, 2013). The world particularly Ethiopian got a lesson and follows the foot step of him from his Olympic participation.…”

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Leadership Behaviour and Human Resource Management Practice Mediation between Strategic Plan and Performance of Selected Ethiopian Sports Federation

Tadesse,

Asgedom,

Taddese

2023

Ind. Jo. Spo. Man.

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The purpose of the study was to identify the relationship between strategic plan and performance through leadership behavior and human resource management practices (HRMP) of a selected Ethiopian sports federation. For this study's purpose, the researcher used quantitative research and a cross-sectional research design. A sample size of ninety-five (n = 95) respondents was used in this study. The quantitative data analysis was processed using IBM SPSS Amos 23.0 software. Structural equation modeling has been used to study this relationship. Confirmatory Factory Analysis (CFA) was used to test the hypothesis between strategic plan and performance through leadership behavior and human resource management practices of a selected Ethiopian sports federation. The result of the study shows leadership behavior and HRMP play an important mediating role between strategic plans and the performance of sport federations ( =.86, P = 0.00). The findings of the study confirm that leadership behavior and HRMP partially mediate the relationship between strategic plan and performance in both federations. The study recommended that it is advisable that selected Ethiopian sports federations work on capacity development programs for human resource development and take up-to-date leadership training frequently; this will enhance the performance of both federations.

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Current Fragmented Film Festival and its Impact on the Process of Building Film Industry in Ethiopia

Aemero

2022

Integr. J. Res. Arts Humanities

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This study aimed at examining the current film festivals and filmmaking impact on the process of film company building process in Ethiopia. Thus, in this study qualitative research method was employed. Both primary and secondary sources of data were gathered where the primary data was collected through key informant interviews having 19 film maker participants of the film industry, Directors cinematographers including academicians in Ethiopian Universities in the field of film and Theatre Arts. The secondary date was obtained through books, articles and journals. The data was analyzed by using document and thematic analysis techniques. The study found out that limited or independent film festival preparation, frequent coping from western and European film festival ideas, ineffective film production systems, loose producers company unity, lack of government support on the national film festival, an increase in film festival conspiracy, the financial, human and material constraints, acceptability gaps, the issue of departure film making action and disintegration weakened the unity and strength of the Ethiopian film festival as a whole thereby pretention obstacle in the film company building process in Ethiopia. Finally, this study recommended that strong Film company institutions are mandatory to gather crumbled Ethiopian film festivals and strength which will in turn amalgamate film corporation & film company formation process in Ethiopia.

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–The Athlete: a movie about the Ethiopian barefooted Olympic champion

Cited by 3 publications

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Contesting visions of Ethiopia in two Amharic sports films

Contesting visions of Ethiopia in two Amharic sports films

Leadership Behaviour and Human Resource Management Practice Mediation between Strategic Plan and Performance of Selected Ethiopian Sports Federation

Current Fragmented Film Festival and its Impact on the Process of Building Film Industry in Ethiopia

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