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Filmmaker · Ghana

Kwaw Ansah

Kwaw Ansah was born in 1941 in Agona Swedru, to a mother who was a trader and a father who was a photographer, painter and man of the theatre. He studied theatre design at the Polytechnic in London, then drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, from 1963 to 1965. Back in Ghana in 1965, he wrote for the stage, worked in advertising and in 1977 founded his production company, Film Africa. He presided over the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers and champions a cinema financed and distributed in Africa.

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