Head of Film Artistic at the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI), Dr. Rebecca Oheneasah Hesse, has advised movie directors and script writers against receiving funding from investors with ideologies and policies different from that of Ghana.
According to her, it is important to check where the funding is coming and the policy of the funding agency. “If you have the funding coming from the UK which has different ideologies from us, they will want to see some of these ideologies reflect in the production.”
With Ghana interested in preserving its heritage and culture, “we need to know where the funding is coming from.” She explained that in lieu of this, former President Kwame Nkrumah made funding available for cultural productions, helping promote the culture of Ghana.
“When you receive funding from elsewhere, you will end up promoting their ideologies and be the same people complaining what is being shown is not the depiction of our culture,” she reiterated.
General Secretary of the Ghana Association of Visual Artists (GAVA), Lawrence Kwaku Agyemang who was also a part of the discussion dubbed; ‘65years on preserving Ghana’s rich cultural heritage’ with Samuel Eshun on the Happy Morning Show shared the importance of Ghana having a cultural policy. “The policy will help preserve the culture of Ghana. If the cultural policy was operational, we wouldn’t have seen some of the things we are experiencing.”
He noted that the success of Nollywood is premised on the successful implementation of a cultural policy and the injection of funds into the creative arts industry by the government.
“We don’t need to only write good scripts, but we need funding and a policy. If we had all these 3 then we wouldn’t find ourselves where we are now,” he added.
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