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About Adanech

From back streets to red carpet

From the teeming back streets of Addis Ababa to the red carpet of international film festivals, Adanech’s dramatic real-life story reads like the script of one of her films. To find out find out how it inspires her unique brand of women's empowerment filmmaking in Ethiopia, click the button below.

Adanach (centre) with fellow Gem TV filmmaker Wondwossen Assefa and media consultant  Dominique Chadwick receiving the Special Award at the one World Media Awards in London, the Oscars of developing world filmmaking.

Afdanech can often be found filming for documentaries in the back streets like the ones she grew up in. She knows the people, the issues and the problems because she has lived with them herself from her earliest childhood. 

Adanech is one of the few women to represent Ethiopian filmmakers at the Cannes International Film Festival.