Famous Ghanaian filmmaker Shirley Frimpong-Manso has highlighted the unforgiving reality of how creatives in Ghana frequently confront feedback or maybe than celebration—even in minutes of achievement.
In an select meet with Doreen Avio on Sunrise Hitz, the award-winning filmmaker described the backfire she gotten over her furnish at the Africa Enchantment Viewers’ Choice Grants (AMVCA), or maybe than being commended for her success.
“I keep in mind when I won, what individuals needed to conversation approximately was my dress, since they said it was as well brief and everyone else was wearing a gown,” she recalled.
“I keep in mind somebody commenting, saying ‘Ghanaians, are you for genuine? The young lady goes and wins an grant, and the as it were thing Ghanaians needed to conversation almost was her dress and the reality that she didn’t wear a outfit. Can you accept it?’”
Shirley communicated concern over what she depicted as a repeating obsession on minor things inside the Ghanaian inventive space—at the cost of perceiving genuine accomplishments.
She famous that such demeanors debilitate creatives from endeavoring for more prominent heights.
“And presently you’re disturbed that no one is winning anything,” she said. “When we have won, what have we done? Indeed when we’ve been assigned, do we make sufficient clamor around it?”
The experienced filmmaker encouraged players in the Ghanaian inventive industry to move their center from negative reputation and instep back and elevate one another in arrange to be competitive on the worldwide arrange.