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| Avoid Superstitiuos Movies |
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| Posted on: 2007-Jul-30 Daily Guide |
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The former Mayor of Accra, Mr. Nat Nunoo Amarteifio has urged Ghanaian film makers and producers to stop producing films that portray the negative side of Africa.
“Movies that portray superstition, witchcraft and other beliefs make people in the western world who patronize them think Africa is still in total blackout and does not know where it is heading towards.”
The former mayor stated this at the closing ceremony of the 8th African Students’ Film and Television Festival (ANIWA) 2007 in Accra.
He said the emotions, imaginations and some negative traditional practices that were portrayed in movies were so devastating that most Europeans who watched those movies thought they were part of African tradition.
In all, four countries participated in this year’s ANIWA festival. They included Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
There were 32 productions in the form of Documentary, Fiction, Animation, TV Drama, Musicals and Debut.
According to a Jury report, read by Mr. Billy Mutta, Chairman of the jury, a Veteran Documentary Film Producer and Former Head of Film Training, KIMC Kenya, since the inception of ANIWA there had not been any improvement in the areas of Directing, Editing, Sound and others as some productions still had major problems in different technical areas.
Drawing attention to credit and subtitles, the jury chairman noted that some films in local languages did not have adequate subtitles, making it difficult for proper understanding.
Ghana was awarded in Documentary, Acting, Fiction, Musical, Animation and TV Drama, while Nigeria was awarded in Sound, Script Writing and Documentary.
South Africa had awards in Editing, Directing, Fiction and Photography, while Zimbabwe had an award in Debut.
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