Film business, funding, streaming, policy, and distribution.
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 […]
Industry Ghana’s Been Here Before, Just Not Like This. Later this month, a Ghanaian film will step onto one of the biggest stages in the world. Zjili: A Story of Sisterhood and the Burdens of Excess has its world premiere in the Discovery programme at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of ten African productions and […]
Industry A producer in Accra finishes a feature. The shoot is done, the edit is locked, the festival premiere or the launch party has come and gone. Then the actual test begins. Can the film get a real run in a cinema, or a slot on television, or a seat on a streaming platform, or does […]
Industry The National Film Authority just launched a GH₵20 million fund. That is the beginning of a conversation, not the end of one. For decades, Ghana’s film industry has survived through creativity, resilience, and individual effort. But industries are rarely built by talent alone. They are built through systems, and Ghana is now, visibly, trying to […]
Industry Twice, Ghana built something that worked. Twice, it lost the ground under that success before building whatever was supposed to come next. This is that pattern, and the question of whether it’s about to repeat itself again. “What happened to Ghana’s film industry?” usually gets asked like an accusation, one where the answer is assumed […]
