African Perspectives: Rebecca

Director: Shirley Frimpong Manso, 85 min, Ghana 2016

Abandoned and lost in the middle of a deserted road, an egotistic proper city guy gets a rude awakening when he begins to realize that his only companion, a timid looking village girl, who had been forced to marry a few hours earlier is anything but ordinary.

The founder and CEO of Sparrow Productions, a film, television and advertising production company, Shirley Frimpong-Manso, won the Best Director prize at the 6th Africa Movie Academy Awards. With a number of films to her credit, she is also a principal of Sparrow Station, a video streaming service for African entertainment from Sparrow and other African film producers. In 2013, she was ranked the 48th most influential person in Ghana according to E.tv Ghana.