{"id":279643,"date":"2019-06-21T21:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiSmh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8yMS9ldGhpb3BpYW4tZmlsbW1ha2VyLXNhbG9tZS1tdWx1Z2V0YXMtd292ZW4v0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:00:33","slug":"salome-mulugetas-film-woven-follows-two-ethiopian-families-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279643","title":{"rendered":"Salome Mulugeta\u2019s film Woven follows two Ethiopian families in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salome Mulugeta\u2019s film Woven follows two Ethiopian families searching for happiness in New York\u2019s close Ethiopian community, where old traditions sit beside modern city life. A tragedy links the two families and opens a web of secrets. The veteran actor Alemtsehay Wodajo plays the mother, and Mulugeta plays the daughter.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The National Theatre in Addis Ababa. This photograph is of the theatre, not a scene from Woven.\" \/>\n<p>The photograph shows the National Theatre in Addis Ababa. It is not a scene from the film.<\/p>\n<p>Mulugeta co-wrote and co-directed the film, and she stars in it. Essence reported that the picture took her about 15 years to bring to the screen. It came out in late 2018, in English and in Amharic with subtitles. By early 2019 it was playing in Los Angeles and on Amazon. Listings on iTunes and Google Play were expected that January.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2019, the writer of a Borkena culture note said many Ethiopians, including the writer, had already seen Woven, and that the film was becoming widely watched.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/21\/ethiopian-filmmaker-salome-mulugetas-woven\/\">Borkena<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/entertainment\/woven-salome-mulugeta-ethiopian-filmmaker\/\">Essence<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woven film &#8211; by Ethiopian Filmmaker Salome Mulugeta&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comIt has been a while since the Ethiopian film Woven is released. Yet, to many Ethiopians do not seem to know about it. Check out the trailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aKn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755363,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279643\/revisions\/755363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}