Who is Amensisa Ifa?
Amenisa Ifa is one of the most prominent Oromo Cinematographer and director. He directed several award winning music videos, one of which is the late Hachalu Hundessa’s ‘Maalan Jira?, which was a sound track of the Oromo protest. He has been fearlessly producing music videos that contributed a lot to the Oromo people’s struggle. Among his recent works are Etika Teferi’s ‘Galma Dhugaa’ and Gelana Garomsa’s ‘Wal Agarra’. Besides all these he is the main reason that we have Hachalu’s Album ‘Maal Mallisaa’ at our hands. He tirelessly worked to compile the songs and he has been organising the event on which the album was released.
Why fundraising?
All of Amensisa’s music video’s are shot by a rented equipments including Camera. He edits them in his living room. And every time he travels out of town to see locations for his music videos, he travels with a rented car. We wanted to do this fundraising for two main reasons. First, we want Amensisa to develop his profession, uncover his talents, produce as many music videos, documentaries etc, without worrying for equipments. In this case we believe we are doing favor not for Amensisa but for the Oromo art. Second, we want to say thank you for his immense contribution for Oromo art. By doing this we’ll develop the culture of giving recognition and saying thank you to someone who has contributed for his people.
What do we need?
We need to set a fully equipped modern studio for Amensisa in Finfinne. That includes purchase of all equipments and at least cover on year rental fee of the studio space.
Use of Funds
Our goal is to make sure we set up a good video and audio production studio with good equipment to ensure quality. Incase you want to donate equipment instead of cash please consider below equipments in need.
- Camera
- Computers
- Highly Portable Camera
- Tripod
- External Microphone
- Lighting
- Gimbal
- Editing/ Production Software
- Video Editing Hardware
- Transcription Service
- High Quality Memory Cards
- Capture Cards
- Dummy Battries
In addition we want to buy him a car so that he can freely travel around Oromia and bring the untapped culture and tradition of the Oromo to the media through the music videos and documentaries he produce. For this we aspire to raise $50,000.
We highly encourage you to contribute for this golden mission and say thank you for someone who is tirelessly working for our people.
