THE EYES OF GHANA
ГЛАЗАМИ ГАНЫ
director
BEN PROUDFOOT 
USA, GHANA, UK, 2025
90'
90'
"The Eyes of Ghana" is a stunning feature documentary following 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse – personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah – as he races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,000 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties
Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history – but world history itself.
| camera | brandon somerhalder, david feeney-mosier |
|---|---|
| music | kris bowers |
| producer | nana adwoa frimpong, ben proudfoot, anita afonu, moses bwayo, brandon somerhalder, ethan lewis, vinnie malhotra |
| production | breakwater studios, higher ground media |
| world sales | greer@breakwaterstudios.com |
Others
director:
BEN PROUDFOOT
Ben Proudfoot is a documentary director and entrepreneur. He hails from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is a graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. He is the creative force behind Breakwater Studios. His films have played at festivals including Tribeca, Sundance and Telluride. A watershed partnership with The New York Times produced some 16 collaborations including "A Concerto is a Conversation", which was nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 93rd Academy Awards, and "The Queen of Basketball", which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 94th Academy Awards. In 2024 he won a second Academy Award, this time for "The Last Repair Shop".
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