Emmanuel Apea, Jr. is a Ghanaian television and film director, 2008 winner of the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director.
Emmanuel Apea | |
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| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Education | Achimota School |
| Alma mater | University of London; Niagara College |
| Occupation(s) | TV and film director |
| Notable work | Run Baby Run |
| Awards | 2008 Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director |
Early life
editEmmanuel Apea is the son of Reverend Emmanuel Apea Sr, a former United Nations Ambassador and Co-ordinator to West Africa and ECOWAS, and Emma Apea, a Healthcare practitioner. He studied at Achimota School, the University of London in the United Kingdom and Niagara College in Canada.[1] He started out directing a series of popular TV serialized dramas. He was the first director of Taxi Driver in 1998, and the producer of the soap opera Home Sweet Home which began airing in 2003. Hotel St. James, set in Kumasi and in a mix of Akan and English, began airing in 2005.[2]
Apea's 2006 movie Run Baby Run won four Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2008, with Apea winning the Award for Best Director.[3] A 2010 movie, Elmina, attracted critical attention.[4][5]
Filmography
edit- Run Baby Run, 2006
- Elmina, 2010
References
edit- ^ "Home Sweet Home...The show you can't get enough of". The Statesman. Accra, Ghana. 16 September 2006. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ Doku, Francis, "Another Apea success series", Graphic Showbiz, Issue 538 (January 20–26, 2005), p. 3.
- ^ Anangfio Jnr., Ebenezer, "Revele Films Is Back With A New Project ‘Elmina’ & On Board Are Akorfa Asiedu, Ama K Abebrese, John Apea & Others", ghanacelebrities.com, 6 July 2010. Archived 25 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Ralph, Michael, & Lauren Coyle, "Resource Curse?: a review of Elmina (2010), directed by Emmanuel Apea, Jr.", Transition Magazine: An International Review, Vol. 107, No. 1, January 2012, pp. 150–59.
- ^ Bryce, Jane, "Elmina: Obroni Art of Popular Melodrama?", Black Camera, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 2014), pp. 134–150.
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