Film
African Perspectives: Chronicles of Odumkrom - The Headmaster
GoetheKino|GoetheCine
Regie: Ernest Abbeyquaye, 135 min, Ghana 2015
The film exudes all the hallmarks of a typical Ghanaian drama: The well-meaning individual, a problem that threatens to destabilize and or his family, and those archetypal characters hungry to bring down the good. It successfully that individual pulls the audience to the bosom of the protagonist - headmaster Master Andoh aka Charles Kofi Bucknor.
Ernest has filmed in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Eritrea. During his filming career he has interviewed heads of states, military generals, academics, politicians, farmers, market women, workers and children. He served as a UNESCO consultant on the use of film and television for rural development and was a local co-ordinator for Yorkshire T.V in Ghana. In 1995, he directed the stage musical and drama "King Lions Law" He equally co-directed a pilot "Hopes on the Horizon" a Blackside (Boston) and Multi Media Africa Production funded by the Ford Foundation. He also directed a stage musical "Fairy tale Africa" a Ghana/Nigeria musical drama earmarked for a U.S. tour.
Details
Goethe-Institut Ghana
30 Kakramadu Road
neben NAFTI | P.M.B. 52
Cantoments, Accra
Language: Orig. Version
Price: Admission is free.