Newsroom Sparrow Studios and OldFilm Productions unveiled the collaboration on September 8 at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra: three films under one title, The 70 Slate: A Cinematic Celebration of Ghana at 70, arriving between December 2026 and December 2027 under the joint direction of filmmakers Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Peter Sedufia. The first, The Return […]
Newsroom Bare Feet opens with a dare printed right on its own poster: when all you have are your bare feet, you use them. That is also the shape of the film itself, a coming-of-age story about two Ghanaian boys chasing a future in football with nothing else to work with. Now, that premise has real […]
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 […]
Newsroom In 2022, a short film called TsutsuƐ became the first film from Ghana, and from Sub-Saharan Africa, to compete in the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Short Film competition. It made the final nine out of more than 3,500 submissions. This year, the same director, Amartei Armar, brings his debut feature to the Locarno Film Festival, […]
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 […]
