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Ghanaian
movie enthusiasts who were waiting to watch Turning Point Picture’s film ‘Ties That Bind’, directed by
award-winning director Leila Djansi, in the comfort of their homes, may have to hold on for a while.
Reports
available to NEWS-ONE indicate that some
officials of Opera Square, made of the Distributors Guild of Ghana who are responsible
for film releases, and Leila Djansi are in some kind of cold war over ‘Ties
That Bind’s’ release.
Distributors
Guild of Ghana allegedly said it would not allow Abdul Salam, the distributor
of the film, to release it.
The
group allegedly said it would only allow Venus Film Productions to distribute
the films if Leila rendered an unqualified apology to the group for certain
comments she made about Opera Square when she had issues with one of its members.
Leila
allegedly lost a huge amount of money to one of the guild’s members, and made a
comment on it on Facebook which eventually ended up in the media.
For
Leila, she was exercising her constitutional right, the freedom to express herself
against treatment being meted out to her and her business through underhand
tactics.
However,
sources told NEWS-ONE that the guild was hurt by Leila’s comment and promised
to deal with her drastically without even going through the merits and demerits
of the issue she had with their member.
Leila
didn’t want to consider the apology, but according to sources, Abdul Salam, who
is also part of the guild and caught between the guild and Leila, had been
coaxing Leila to do so to let sleeping dogs lie.
NEWS-ONE
has intercepted a certain apology letter, purportedly written by Leila to the
guild.
The
paper could not get her at press time to confirm or deny the letter. NEWS-ONE will
publish the full contents of the letter next week.
credit: NEWS-ONE
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