Despite incessant calls and outcry by many film critics in Ghana
condemning movies produced from
Kumasi that have often been tagged
"Kumawood", award winning Ghanaian movie
producer and CEO of Sparrow Productions,
Shirley Frimpong Manso has against all odds
commended such movies and acknowledged the
pivotal role these movies played in ensuring the
interests and hope of a "movie industry" existed.
Speaking on NewDay on TV3, producer of award
winning movies A Sting in a Tale, 6 Hours To
Christmas, The Perfect Picture, Adams Apples,
Scorned disclosed although there were a lot of
challenges, Kumawood movies kept the movie
market going at a tough moment when the
Ghanaian market was almost nonexistent.
She stated it would be unfortunate and unfair
for anyone to condemn such movies as such
productions are made out of individual efforts
with no institutional interventions.
"It's like going to Makola market and telling
somebody who's put up his store that your
market is not looking good. We could only
suggest positively"
As a way forward for movie makers, Shirley
believed it w6uld be in the interest of the
government of Ghana to support the industry as
anything portrayed goes a long way to sell
Ghana.
She also asked the government to put in place
the right structures before passing and
implementing the Film law which has been laid
before parliament and also for interventions to
aid the film industry only if it existed.
