Two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot shines a light on Chris Hesse, a very energetic 90-year-old who filmed all of Ghana's ...
The Oscar-winning duo behind "The Last Repair Shop" discuss their new collaboration, and using elements like talking drums and an IMAX camera to shape a story around lost Ghanaian history.
“The Eyes of Ghana” makes a rather literal start to its story. The first frame of the film is of its protagonist’s eyes. He’s Chris Hesse, a Ghanaian filmmaker in his 90s. He’s seen getting his eyes ...
EXCLUSIVE: Ghana’s Black Star International Film Festival (BSIFF) has locked a unique distribution partnership with Majestic Cinemas, the Ivory Coast’s largest cinema chain, to expand the distribution ...
In the late 1980s, mobile cinema businesses were burgeoning in Ghana, bringing film screenings to villages and rural areas without theaters or electricity. These makeshift “video clubs” – usually made ...
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The feature used very little green screen, but instead relied on the country's landscapes as its most important visual effect. By Aaron Couch Film Editor Filmmaker M Sayibu didn’t have much money to ...
GHERMANYA is about Germany in Ghana It shows various German influences Traces of colonial past and christianization Voluntary fire brigade from Buxtehude Challenges in learning German Schwarzwälder ...
During the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian artists created vibrant hand-painted movie posters to promote Hollywood blockbuster films. These posters served as promotional material for mobile cinemas that ...
ACCRA, Ghana—There's a lot going for "Mars Attacks!"—a 1996 film featuring Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close and homicidal space aliens. But the original posters just didn't project enough of the movie's ...