Prophet Reindolph Oduro Gyebi, founder and general overseer of God’s Crown Chapel,
popularly known as the Eagle Prophet has cautioned movie makers to be careful in their dealings this year.
According to him, there is a bad cloud hanging over the Ghana movie industry and unless Ghanaians pray for our actors and actresses a lot of them could die this year.
He has therefore called on Ghanaians who have relatives in the local movie industry to
Speaking during one of his programs at Kumasi based Abusua FM, Eagle Prophet stated that
he saw a lot of mourning and wailing in the Ghana Movie Industry.
He added that the wailing and crying he saw was necessitated by a strong demonic attack that has been launched on the people who find themselves in the movie industry and as such many deaths will hit the people in the industry.
Prophet Oduro, therefore, called on the many Christians in the country to believe in him as a true son of God and work hard through prayers to avert this looming danger he has seen.
Known for showing more of Hindi/Indian telenovelas, Adom TV is set to air a Ghanaian Telenovela, ‘SANKOFA’
‘Sankofa’, is a locally produced telenoveloa which is mainly in the local(Twi) language. It will start showing from Monday, May 7, 2018 on Adom TV.
The new series, elaborates on the matrilineal inheritance system of most Akan groups.
This, however become the second Ghanaianovela after TV3’s ‘Sadia.’
Synopsis
This is a story of a King who is married to a woman who has failed to bear any fruits of the womb for as long as the marriage lasted.
Frustrated and fearing that he may not have an heir to his throne, the King makes an expected decision – marry another wife who immediately becomes pregnant for him.
A scene from Sankofa telenovela
The plot gets thicker, has an heir been born? Will this heir survive the intrigue of the palace? Will this child bring happiness into the life of the King?
The SANKOFA series, will provide answers to the question, “is the child really the King’s?” But most important in the series is how the truth is finally revealed.
Already in suspense, then don’t forget to keep your channel always on Adom TV, so as not to miss any episode of this movie.
This captivating story, filled with suspense, will start airing on Adom TV from Monday to Thursday from 1:30pm to 4pm each day.
Following the SANKOFA ‘Kumnovela’ series will be a chatroom discussions. Presenting this, will be Adom TV’s, Maame Akua Austin.
Maame Akua is also the presenter of Asempa FM’s flagship show, Abrabo.
The launch of this series took place in press conference on Monday at the premises of The Multimedia Group, Kokomlemle.
Present were some members of management of the Multimedia Group, producers, directors and cast of Sankofa. Also gracing the vent was the Director of Creative Arts, Ghana, Socrates Sarfo.
Co-producer of Sankofa, Oheneyere Mercy Asiedu, extended her gratitude to the station. She was was grateful to Adom TV for the opportunity given to a locally-produced series to be aired the station with the highest viewership.
She asked for more support for the industry in order to avert the dying Ghanaian culture.
Speaking at the launch was the Channel Manager of Adom TV, Abena Yiadom. According to her, SONKOFA is a natural progression of Adom TV’s programming philosophy of providing local content to an audience who cherish content delivered in a language they can relate to.
It also fits into the strategic vision of The Multimedia Group to help grow the creatives industry in Ghana.
Sankofa is a collaboration between Adom TV and Mesduah Productions.
The word ‘Sankofa’ is however, a word in the Twi languauge of Ghana that translates to “Go back and get it” (san – to return; ko – to go; fa – to fetch, to seek and take). It also also refers to the Asante Adinkra symbol represented either with a stylized heart shape or by a bird with its head turned backwards while its feet face forward carrying a precious egg in its mouth.
Sankofa is often associated with the proverb, “Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi,” which translates as: “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.”
The Ghanaian media has over the years witnessed massive clog in several foreign telenovelas. Mainly shown are those of the Indians, mexican, Brazil, Venezuela the Philippines, Spain and the USA. It is only wise that we go back and our culture and inculcate them in our movies.
A 19-year old Ghanaian lady has set a record of producing her own movie dubbed ‘Hours to Graduate.
Just when most industry players were beginning to up any hope of ever reviving what they call a dead Movie Industry, a teenager pops up to lighten our hearts.
Vendy Asamoah is a level 200 student of the Ghana Institute of Journalism. Her name will go into the history books of Ghana as the first teenager to produce her own movie.
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Vendy, is also the co-writer of the script. Speaking in an interview, said she is very thankful and pleased to have done such work to inspire the youth and forth coming generation. ” well, in as much as there are lots of humor, it touches on issues such as true friendship and inferiority after teenage baby delivery” she added.
The movie will soon be shown in various campuses across the country.
Hours to Graduate features some great talents like Jess Haddarah of Bambini show fame among others.
Well, this is sad news for the Ghanaian movie indsutry.
It has been reported that Ghana will not be represented at the 2018 Oscars. This is due to the fact that the Ghana Foreign Language Committee could not nominate any of the films submitted. Professor Linus Abraham, the Chairman of the Committee, made this announcement in Accra.
The committee reported that none of the 3 films submitted met the requirements for the Foreign Language Category of the Oscars. That makes them automatically disqualified.
According to Professor Abraham, various anomalies were detected with the submission of all 3 films. He said, “and so the committee had not choice but to disqualify them, to preserve the integrity of the committee and of Ghana’s participation in the Oscars.”
Out of the three films submitted to the Committee’s Secretariat, Professor Abraham noted that one stood out, with the potential of being nominated; but it unfortunately did not meet the Academy’s release requirements. It was stipulated that any film submitted must have first been released in its country of origin, theatrically for seven consecutive days, before it’s VOD release. The film did not meet that requirement.
The submitted films also failed to use the committee’s standards of submission, which required submitting the films via film freeway and also supplying the committee with 20 DVD copies.
The Oscars have a very strict regime for submission of films. The Foreign Language Selection Committee held a workshop in Ghana in June 2017 with resource persons who took filmmakers through the submission process. Unfortunately, there was a dismal representation of active Ghanaian filmmakers at the workshop. This underscored the multiple mistakes made by the filmmakers who submitted their films.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the list of foreign language films selected for next years Oscars. Among them, Kenya, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Mozambique and South Africa are representing the African continent.
We hope next year will be a better year for Ghanaian filmmakers.
TV host, George Quaye has made some statements about the realities of the Ghana Movie industry. He stated that the profession does not pay well and that is why he quit.
He made these statements to substantiate what Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s statements that some actors and actresses live fake lifestyloes for the public.
George is widely known for playing the role of Aboagye in the hit series ‘Taxi Driver’. He is now the Public Relations Officer of Charter House.
He stated that a producer once gave him GHC 3.00 to act a role in a movie. He said that when he realised how hungry and desolate the industry was, he advised himself.
The opinions on the movie industry is a never ending cycle.
Samuel Fiscian, President of the Ghana Actors’ Guild, Samuel Fiscian, has spoken up about the state of Ghanaian actors in recent times. He revealed that due to the low patronage of local movies, most actors are now out of jobs. He said the low patronage from Ghanaians to local productions has made production companies either reduce the content they make or stop production altogether.
This situation has created a ripple effect on the working actors in the country. Mr Fiscian further stated that the popularity of foreign productions on the market have contributed to the dwindling sales of local productions. Also, most of these foreign productions are shown on television
“We are challenged by the influx of foreign productions and we acknowledge the fact that the taste of the Ghanaian has changed,” he said.
He made these statement when the guild paid a courtesy call on the new Chief Executive of Media General Group (owners of TV3, 3FM, 3News, Onua FM, Connect FM, Akoma FM and APL Productions), Pearl Esua-Mensah, to congratulate her on her appointment.
Mrs Esua Mensah made her statements on the issues that were stated. She stated that the Media General Group has over the past two decades created local stars who have excelled. “There are a lot of stars whose careers started from TV3 and gave them the launch pad to really fly. So we can assure you that that our mandate still stays. We have to do Ghana; we have to portray Ghana but we have to show that Ghana can do it with the right quality and we’re willing to work with the actors to do that,” she added.
We hope Media General Group leads the charge to definitely show more local content because they were the first channels to bring foreign content to the society.
