Kush Films Presents: UK Exclusive Preview Screening of -The Eyes Of Ghana
About this Event
Kush Films is Proud To Present: A UK Exclusive Preview Screening + After-film Discussion with Guest Panel for the fascinating new documentary film The Eyes Of Ghana—produced by Barack and Michelle Obama.
This film will not be released in UK cinemas; this is a special one-off preview screening for a select few - we are offering Tickets For FREE - This will sell out fast so grab your tickets now - once seats are gone they are gone.
Bring your youths, mentee's, friends, groups, schools etc.
A magical and inspiring documentary film for all filmakers - do not miss this absolutely fantastic tale of Afrikan cinematic history and the beginning of the Pan-afrikan Movement & Afrikan independence.
Supported by (Tony Warner) who will also manage the after-film discussion with guest speakers.
Host: Joy Coker (Alt-Africa.com)
After-film Discussion: 45 mins
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The Eyes of Ghana
From Oscar ® -winning director Ben Proudfoot, executive producers Barack and Michelle Obama, and producer IShowSpeed, THE EYES OF GHANA is a stunning feature documentary following 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah (the first president of liberated Ghana) —as he races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 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.
Director: Ben Proudfoot
United States of America | 2025 | 90m | English, Twi, Ga
Breakwater Productions
A Forgotten History: 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 by the coupmakers. All was lost. Or so they thought.
A Legacy Restored: 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.
The team behind The Eyes of Ghana: Anita Afonu serves as a producer alongside Ghanaian-Canadian Nana Adwoa Frimpong and the Oscar-nominated Moses Bwayo. Oscar-nominated composer Kris Bowers provides the score. Serving as executive producers are Barack and Michelle Obama through their production company, Higher Ground.
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.
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