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Aseye Tamakloe is a filmmaker and lecturer at the National film and Television Institute in Accra. She is a co-programmer for the Film Africa Festival, London’s biggest celebration of African and African diaspora cinema presented by the Royal African Society. She was the Festival Manager/Director of the European Film Festival, Ghana (EUFFGH).
Aseye Tamakloe is the founder and festival director of NDIVA WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL. A festival that aims to create artistic platforms for the presentation and preservation of work by, for and about women. As a freelance editor her works include, award-winning films and television productions such as Perfect Picture and Different Shades of Blue by Shirley Frimpong-Manso, Who is Afraid of Ngugi by Manthia Diawara, Freetown by Garret Barty and Chronicles of Odumkrom: The Headmaster by Ernest Kofi Abbeyquaye. She recently directed and edited the critically acclaimed documentary film When Women Speak.
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Kwaw Paintsil Ansah is a film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright regarded in many circles as Ghana’s most influential filmmaker.
He has been a storyteller throughout his adult life by way of his work in advertising, plays, films and design. Very few people know that he designed some of Ghana’s popular wax print cloths such as Abban Nkaba and You Too Can Fly.
As an acclaimed filmmaker, Ansah’s other works include Heritage Africa; Crossroads Of People, Crossroads of Trade; The Good Old Days; Suffering To Lose; The Love Of AA and Papa Lasisi Bicycle. Though a staunch Pan-Africanist, Ansah believes that Africans telling stories to the world must not develop emotional attachments to what they consider as their relevant values and just proclaim them without regard to requisite artistic merits.
He sees relevant training as important for success and that’s why despite the early surge of artistic talent in his life, he strived to study theatre design, music and filmmaking at institutions such as the London Polytechnic in the United Kingdom and the America Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
