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| Kwaw Ansah |
Film
Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG), the umbrella body of film producers in
Ghana, and some stakeholders in Ghana’s television industry last Wednesday held
a seminar on improving Ghana’s audiovisual industry.
The
seminar was held at the Teachers Hall in Accra under the theme; ‘The Role of Film In Nation Development’.
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| Alhaji Sidiku Buari |
It
brought together a lot of stakeholders in Ghana’s movie industry as well as players
from other audiovisual industries.
Among
them were Idikoko, President of FIPAG, Socrates Sarfo, Alhaji Sidiku Buari ex-president
of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Kwaw Ansah, Helen Omaboe, Abeiku
Sagoe and a number of others. Some government officials were there.
Issues
discussed included measures to sanitize the audiovisual industry for a
sustainable development and more.
Speaking
at the ceremony was award-winning film director and owner of TV Africa, Kwaw
Ansah, who underscored the need for Ghanaian filmmakers to improve the technical
abilities of their movies.
He
expressed his unhappiness about the trend of storylines of Ghanaian movies
lately and spoke at length about it.
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| Socrates Sarfo |
He
said movie stories lately did not depict Ghana’s culture as they were rather
stories adopted from other cultures.
He
was of the opinion that one could not tell another person’s culture in a story
better than his or her own.
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| Idikoko |
“You
can’t do a cowboy movie better than the Americans,” he added and encouraged
filmmakers to come home because there was a plethora of Ghanaian stories that had
not been told yet.
credit: NEWS-ONE
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