Lucas Habte
About
Lucas Habte is an Ethiopian-American filmmaker based in New York City. After graduating from Harvard, he received the George Peabody Gardner Fellowship to Australia. He was a 2014-2015 Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Fellow in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. is his first feature documentary as director.
Shadow of His Wings
In Addis Ababa, a young filmmaker falls in love with an Ethiopian man who flees homophobic death threats in his native country to become France’s first LGBT refugee from Ethiopia.