Official Trailer for 'The Eyes of Ghana' Doc on Filmmaker Chris Hesse

"What was so dangerous about those films that they had to be destroyed?" The United States of Africa? Higher Ground & Breakwater Studios & IShowSpeed debuted the trailer for a documentary film titled The Eyes of Ghana, made by Bend Proudfoot. This premiered at TIFF last year and is getting a small theatrical release this fall before it's streaming. Ghanaian filmmaker Chris Hesse served as the personal cameraman to the first president of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. In 1966, at the onset of a CIA-backed coup, Nkrumah was removed from power, and the footage that Hesse had spent a decade capturing was burned. All was lost. Or so they thought... For decades, Chris Hesse has preserved over 1,000+ reels of Ghana's liberation story — marking it as the single largest existing archive detailing Ghana's liberation story. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history — but world history itself. TIFF adds: "The director, Ben Proudfoot, has a gift for honouring overlooked figures and two of his short films where he does so have won Oscars. He met Hesse by happenstance and the two immediately recognized kindred spirits in one another. The coming together of all these talents is a cause for celebration." Oh — this looks absolutely tremendous! A remarkable time capsule of a revolution that almost happened in Africa in the 60s. Must see. // Continue Reading ›

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