Melvin Dain trained at EbonyLife Creative Academy and has spent his career so far on both sides of the camera in Ghana, first as an actor on some of the country’s best-known productions, more recently as a director working through short films of his own. What ties the two halves of that career together is […]
Newsroom Three Ghanaian filmmakers have emerged as winners of the EU-Ghana Pitch Café, held as part of the 2026 European Union Film Festival Ghana, each receiving GH¢10,000 to develop their film projects. Kwaku Edusei Acquah, with Abonsam Cartoons, Deladem Duvi, with Unfinished Business, and Adwoa Safoa Oppong-Nyarko, with I See You, were the winners to emerge […]
Industry Ask Ghanaian filmmakers what is holding the industry back and the answers tend to arrive one at a time. Funding. Distribution. Audiences. Infrastructure. Each is treated as its own problem, with its own fix. Underneath many of them sits another problem that is harder to name: fragmentation. Veteran actor Fred Nii Amugi made that case […]
Newsroom Ghanaian filmmaker and cultural practitioner Junaid Timtooni Yakubu, known professionally as Timtooni, has received the Prince Claus Fund SEED Award 2026, joining a cohort of emerging artists and cultural practitioners whose work engages with social and political issues in their local contexts. The award comes with €5,000 for recipients to invest in their artistic and […]
Spotlight Koby Cole is a Ghanaian-British filmmaker who has been making short films since high school, about seven years now, work that started less as a filmmaking impulse than a writing one. He’d meant to become an author before a simple realization redirected him: a reader’s image of a story is limited by their own imagination, […]
Industry Ask Ghanaian filmmakers what is holding the industry back and the answers tend to arrive one at a time. Funding. Distribution. Audiences. Infrastructure. Each is treated as its own problem, with its own fix. Underneath many of them sits another problem that is harder to name: fragmentation. Veteran actor Fred Nii Amugi made that case […]
Industry West African television has no shortage of platforms wanting content, or producers looking for the next series to option. What it has much less of is a structured way to develop the writers who are supposed to be creating that content in the first place: paid, sustained, professionally mentored development that turns a writer with […]
Industry A new documentary asks what African women do with their natural hair. The bigger story is how an independent film like it actually gets made, financed, and carried to an audience without a studio behind it. Crown or Class opens on a simple premise: two young African women, one in Ghana, one in Belgium, and […]
Spotlight Melvin Dain trained at EbonyLife Creative Academy and has spent his career so far on both sides of the camera in Ghana, first as an actor on some of the country’s best-known productions, more recently as a director working through short films of his own. What ties the two halves of that career together is […]
Spotlight Koby Cole is a Ghanaian-British filmmaker who has been making short films since high school, about seven years now, work that started less as a filmmaking impulse than a writing one. He’d meant to become an author before a simple realization redirected him: a reader’s image of a story is limited by their own imagination, […]
Spotlight Siafa Manequi is a Ghanaian filmmaker with Liberian and Sierra Leonean heritage, largely self-taught, and drawn from the start to the material other people look away from: identity, mental health, sexuality, grief. He has made a run of short films and documentaries that sit at the edges of the industry rather than its center, by […]
Filmmaker's Notebook This is the first entry in Filmmaker’s Notebook, a new space in Anansesɛm where we step back from criticism, news and opinion to answer a more practical question: how does this industry actually work, and what does an emerging filmmaker need to understand to make better decisions about their own career. The Notebook is not […]
