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, […]
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 […]
Newsroom Sheila Nortley’s Ghana-set feature film Restful Harbour has joined the Vancouver International Film Festival’s first international co-production slate, placing the film among eight projects selected for the festival’s new industry initiative. The announcement was made as VIFF unveiled the first lineup of its Business Hub, an expanded industry programme designed to connect filmmakers with international […]
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 […]
Newsroom A Ghanaian-Canadian writer-director is among four African screenwriters selected for the 2026 edition of the AuthenticA Series Lab. Lindsey Addawoo has been selected alongside Nigerian writer, director and cinematographer Lateefah Mayaki, South African filmmaker Phumi Morare and Cameroonian filmmaker Sahndra Fon Dufe for the development programme run by the Realness Institute. The eight-day residency is […]
