Two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot shines a light on Chris Hesse, a very energetic 90-year-old who filmed all of Ghana's ...

Two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot returned to his native Canada last week to debut his latest documentary, “The Eyes of Ghana,” a powerful feature about the African country’s buried cinema history ...

Mobile cinema businesses became wildly popular in Ghana in the 1980s and 1990s. As a way to attract viewers, proprietors commissioned local artists to paint film posters with creative license. Twitter ...

During the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian artists created vibrant hand-painted movie posters to promote Hollywood blockbuster films. These posters served as promotional material for mobile cinemas that ...

For director Ben Proudfoot, "The Eyes of Ghana" began with what he thought was a simple question. It was the summer of 2021. The documentarian had been sent by UNICEF to Ghana to create a film about ...

"The Eyes of Ghana" makes a rather literal start to its story. The first frame of the film is of its protagonist's eyes. He's Chris Hesse, a Ghanaian filmmaker in his 90s. He's seen getting his eyes ...

Oscar-winning team Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers discuss their new collaboration 'The Eyes of Ghana', a call to action for ...

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winning filmmaker Ben Proudfoot has teamed with Oscar-nominated director Moses Bwayo and Barack and Michelle Obama for The Eyes of Ghana, a new documentary feature that ...