Salome Mulugeta Mulugeta is an Ethiopian & Eritrean American filmmaker , actor and journalist . Mulugeta is best known for directing her first feature film Woven and winning the audience award for film directed by women of color at the African Diaspora International film festival in New York . Mulugeta and Nagwa Ibrahim co - directed the film and the film had its debut premiere at the Los Angeles film festival Mulugeta was born in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia . She attended an all girls boarding school in Bedford , England before studying broadcasting and journalism at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe , Kansas . She worked at a local TV station before moving to Los Angeles , where she co-wrote '' Woven '' with the actor Ryan Spahn . After meeting Nagwa Ibrahim , the pair directed and produced '' Woven '' together . The film , in which Mulugeta also starred , premiered at the 2017 African Diaspora Film Festival in New York , and was shown at the 2016 LA Film Festival
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