Teshome H. Gabriel (September 24, 1939 – June 14, 2010) was an Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar and professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Los Angeles.
Gabriel was considered an expert on cinema and film of Africa and the developing world.
[1] A colleague at UCLA, Vinay Lal, noted that Gabriel was "one of the first scholars to theorize in a critical fashion about Third World cinema.
[1] He continued his education at UCLA, where he earned a master's degree in theater arts in 1976 and a doctorate in film and television studies in 1979.
[1] Additionally, Gabriel founded Tuwaf (Light), an Ethiopian journal on fine arts which is published in Amharic.