Sam Aryeetey
Sam Aryeetey | |
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| Born | Sam Greatorex Aryeetey August 23, 1929 |
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Sam Greatorex Aryeetey (born 23 August 1929No Tears for Ananse.[3]
Life
Sam Aryeetey was born August 23, 1929, in Accra. He was educated at Accra Methodist Boys' School and Achimota School.[1] Among the first students at an Accra film training school for West Africans established by the Colonial Film Unit in 1948, Sam Aryeetey joined the new Gold Coast Film Unit under Sean Graham.[4] In 1952 he moved to work as an editor in England.[5]
In 1963, Sam Aryeetey returned to Ghana to work for the Ghana Film Industry Corporation (GFIC).Ananse.[4]
In 1969, Sam Aryeetey became managing director of the GIFC. Manthia Diawara has argued that, by choosing to employ Europeans rather than Africans to “make films for Ghana”.
Works
Films
- (as editor) I Will Speak English, 1954
- (as editor) Mr. Mensah Builds a House, 1955
- (as editor) The Welfare of Youth, Editor
- (as editor) Sporting Life, 1958
- (as producer) Hamile the Tongo Hamlet, 1964
- (as director) No Tears for Ananse, 1965 or 1968
- (as writer) The African Deal, 1973
Books
- ‘’Harvest of Love’’, 1984
- ‘’Other Side of Town’’, 1986
- ‘’Home at Last’’, 1996
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-903274-17-3.
- ^ "Aryeetey, Sam, 1927- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ISBN 978-1-4744-0721-2.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-89680-484-5.
- ^ Tom Rice, Gold Coast Film Unit, ‘’Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire’’, June 2010.
- ^ Ghana Year Book, 1978, p.245.
External links
- Sam Aryeetey at IMDb
- Sam Aryeetey at the better source needed]
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