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Ghanaian Filmmakers
This is a list of notable Ghanaian filmmakers listed in alphabetic order by surname. A *Kofi Adu *John Akomfrah *King Ampaw *Kwaw Ansah *John Apea *Juliet Asante *Nana Adwoa Awindor * Nana Oforiatta Ayim B *Akosua Busia D *Leila Djansi F *Shirley Frimpong-Manso G * Charles Allen Gyimah H * Rev Dr Chris Tsui Hesse O *Nii Kwate Owoo Ghana Nation. * S *References {{Reflist |
Kofi Adu
Kofi Adu (born May 25, 1969),is originally from the Ashanti Region of Ghana but lived in a suburb in Accra Newtown called Asantewaa, also known as Agya Koo, is an actor and comedian from Ghana. He has appeared in over 200 Ghanaian movies including ''Obaatanpa'', ''Away Bus'', ''Black Star'', and ''Ma Tricki Wo''. Career Adu is originally from the Ashanti Region of Ghana, but lived in a suburb in Accra Newtown called Asantewaa. He worked as a cobbler. Adu was discovered on a Ghanaian comedy show on GTV (Ghana National Television) at the National Theater in Accra, where he worked as a comedian warming up the crowd before the main drama is staged. In July 2008, he was awarded a National Award by then-Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor. Although he originally journeyed to Accra to sing, Agya Koo has been featured in many Ghanaian movies, 15 of which remain his favorite. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Frimpong-Manso
Shirley Frimpong-Manso (born 16 March 1977) is a Ghanaian film director, writer, and producer. She is the founder and CEO of Sparrow Productions, a film, television and advertising production company. She won Best Director at the 6th Africa Movie Academy Awards. Frimpong-Manso is also a principal of Sparrow Station, a video streaming service for African entertainment from Sparrow and other African film producers. In 2013, she was ranked the 48th most influential person in Ghana according to E.tv Ghana. Frimpong-Manso is described as one who "seeks to raise the standard of film production in Ghana and Africa by telling progressive African stories as seen through the eyes of Africans." Changing the way Ghana was portrayed also motivated her career choice. Her films are also known for their "fierce female leads," as they portray African women with agency who can be breadwinners and lead complex lives. In December 2019, her movie ‘Potato Potahto’ started streaming on Netflix. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Ghanaian People By Occupation
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Socrate Safo
Socrate Safo is a Ghanaian director, filmmaker, and Director for Creative Arts at the National Commission on Culture (NCC) in Ghana. He is a prominent figure in Ghallywood and head of Move Africa Productions. Career Safo began his filmmaking career while working as a janitor in a movie theater. He was initially training to be an auto mechanic. It was during this time he filmed his 1992 movie ''Ghost Tears'', which became a commercial success. The movie helped pioneer the Ghanaian ghost film genre. Safo was Public Relations Officer of the Film Producers Association of Ghana. He featured prominently in the 2011 VICE A vice is a practice, behaviour, or Habit (psychology), habit generally considered immorality, immoral, sinful, crime, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refe ... documentary ''The Sakawa Boys'', which spoke about Safo's influence on the Sakawa movement in Ghana. Safo claims to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Akosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1, 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker and producer. Her films explore the colliding identities of black immigrants in America through multiple forms ranging from cinematic essays to experimental narratives to reconstructed Black popular media. Interpreting the notion of "double consciousness," coined by sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, Owusu aims to create a third cinematic space or consciousness. In her work, feminism, queerness, and African identities interact in African, white American, and black American cultural spaces. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Early life and education Owusu was born to Ghanaian parents and raised in an immigrant community in Alexandria, Virginia. She is the youngest of three siblings to Grace and Albert A. Owusu, Sr. Owusu holds master's degrees in the School of Film/Video and School of Fine Art from California Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nii Kwate Owoo
Nii Kwate Owoo (born 1944) is a Ghanaian academic and filmmaker, described by ''Variety'' as "one of the first Ghanaians to lense in 35mm". His name has also appeared in film credits as Kwate Nee-Owoo. Background Owoo was educated at Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast, Ghana, and subsequently went to the UK and studied direction, camera and editing at the London Film School (1968–71) and at Isleworth Polytechnic, London. His documentary film ''You Hide Me'' is considered the first from English-speaking independent Africa. Controversial in subject matter, it was shot in 1970 in England (where he was part of the Cinema Action film collective) and "is an exposé of the theft and concealment of ancient and rare African Art hidden in plastic bags and wooden boxes in the basement of the British Museum","You Hide M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rev Dr Chris Tsui Hesse
Christian Tsui Hesse, popularly known as Chris Hesse (born 29 August 1932) is a Ghanaian cinematographer, filmmaker, film administrator, photographer and Presbyterian minister who is known for his cinematography in several award-winning films such as the critically acclaimed ''Love Brewed in the African Pot'' (1980) and ''Heritage Africa'' (1989). He was the personal photographer of Ghana's first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Chris Hesse helped to document the visual history of the political leadership and development of the country. He also worked for the United Nations, serving as a photographer, documenting the Congo crisis in 1960. Early life and education Chris Tsui Hesse was born on 29 August 1932 at Osu, Accra. He attended the all-boys' Presbyterian boarding middle school, the Salem School and the Odorgonno Secondary School, obtaining the Cambridge Overseas Certificate in 1954. In the same year, he was employed at the Ghana Film Industry Corporation (GFIC). He attende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Allen Gyimah
Charles Allen Gyimah (1939–2014) was a Ghanaian traditional leader, politician, film maker, and entrepreneur. He was the founder of Video City Limited, a video production company which was situated in Accra and Mampong. Career As the Chief of Jamasi, Gyimah was known by the stool name Nana Gyimah Kesseh I. He abdicated his chieftaincy title after protracted disagreements among the royals of Jamasi He was the financial controller of Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko Football Club when the club won the 1983 African Club Championship under the chairmanship of Yaw Barwuah. Gyimah made a fortune as one of the prominent traders in the Kantamanto market. By 2013, he was the chief of patron of the market's traders. In the 1980s, he recorded football matches of Ashanti Kotoko and duplicated them on VHS cassettes for sale. He did same for ''Concert Party'' and local television drama groups. One of such groups was the Osofo Dadzie ''Osofo Dadzie'' (formed in October 1972) is the title of a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leila Djansi
Leila Afua Djansi (born 1981) is an American and Ghanaian filmmaker who started her film career in the Ghana film industry. Early life Leila Djansi was born Leila Afua Djansi in 1981.Nelmes, Jill; Selbo, Jule''Women Screenwriters: An International Guide'' Springer (2015), p. 20, . Retrieved 12 January 2019. Her father was a pilot and her mother a Senior Nursing Officer. Djansi grew up in India and Ghana. Although acting and writing were her hobbies, her career ambition was to become a gynecologist, a plan that later changed when she developed an interest in forensics. Ready to delve into the field of criminology, another career change occurred when she met the Ghanaian actor Sam Odoi, who convinced her to write a script for him. She was 19 years old when her script '' Babina'' was made into a movie by Producer Akwetey Kanyi. Education Djansi attended the Kabore Primary and JSS, Mawuli School for primary, junior and secondary education respectively all located in Ho, in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Akomfrah
John Akomfrah (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films". A founder of the Black Audio Film Collective in 1982, he made his début as a director with ''Handsworth Songs'' (1986), which examined the fallout from the 1985 Handsworth riots. ''Handsworth Songs'' went on to win the Grierson Award for Best Documentary in 1987. In the words of ''The Guardian'', he "has secured a reputation as one of the UK’s most pioneering film-makers hosepoetic works have grappled with race, identity and post-colonial attitudes for over three decades." Early life and education John Akomfrah was born in Accra, Ghana, to parents who were involved with anti-colonial activism. In an interview with Sukhdev Sandhu, Akomfrah said: "My dad was a member of the cabinet of Kwame Nkrumah's party.... We left Ghana because my mum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akosua Busia
Akosua Gyamama Busia (born 30 December 1966) is a Ghanaian actress, film director, author and songwriter who lives in the United Kingdom. She played Nettie Harris in the 1985 film '' The Color Purple'' alongside Whoopi Goldberg. Family and early life Busia is the daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, who was prime minister of the Republic of Ghana (from 1969 to 1972) and a prince of the royal family of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti, making Akosua a princess too. Her sister, Abena Busia, is a poet and academic, who was a professor in English at Rutgers University, and since 2017 has been the Ghanaian ambassador to Brazil. Busia grew up in Ghana, and began her acting career at the age of 16, attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama on scholarship.Smith, Gail (4 December 1998)"Just don't say 'no'" ''Mail & Guardian'' (South Africa). Her first acting role was as Juliet in an otherwise white cast performing Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet'' at Oxford University, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a Ghanaian writer, art historian and filmmaker. Background Nana Ofosuaa Oforiatta Ayim was raised in Germany, England, and her ancestral homeland in Ghana. She studied Russian and Politics at the University of Bristol and went on to work in the Department of Political Affairs at United Nations in New York. She completed her master's degree in African Art History at SOAS University of London. Oforiatta Ayim comes from a political family in Ghana, the Ofori-Attas, whose power spans both the traditional and the modern. Her maternal grandfather was Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, the renowned king of Akyem Abuakwa who was hailed as the Louis XIV of Africa, and her great-uncle was J. B. Danquah, the scholar and politician who gave Ghana its name and started the political party that brought about Independence. Writing Her first novel ''The God Child'' was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK in 2019, the US in 2020 and by Penguin Random Hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
