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Kwaw Paintsil Ansah (born ) is a Ghanaian film-maker, whose work as writer, director or producer includes Love Brewed in the African Pot in and..
Kwaw Ansah
Ghanaian film maker (born 1941)
Kwaw Paintsil Ansah (born 1941) is a Ghanaian film-maker, whose work as writer, director or producer includes Love Brewed in the African Pot in 1980 and Heritage Africa in 1989.[1][2][3][4][5] His first feature, Love Brewed in the African Pot, earned immediate popular and critical acclaim throughout English-speaking Africa.
Kwaw Paintsil Ansah is a film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright regarded in many circles as Ghana's most influential filmmaker.
Despite all the awards and the success, it would be nearly 10 years before Ansah could complete his next major film project, the ambitious Heritage Africa (1989). Yet again, the film was widely acclaimed and awarded.
Since then, Ansah has produced other films, including Harvest at 17 (1994), Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade (1994) and The Golden Stool, the Soul of the Asantes (2000). Ansah is a crusader for African filmmaking and dramatic art, working ceaselessly for improved funding and distribution of African films within Africa.
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