Emmanuel Apea, CEO of Revele Films, one of Ghana’s finest movie production houses, has suggested to his colleagues in the movie industry to take advantage of certain information in the local media to tell local stories in their movies.
He said Ghanaian movies have over the years been criticized for not exploring Ghanaian stories that have both local and foreign appeal, adding that one of the easiest ways to find a solution to the problem was researching into the media, especially the newspapers.
“You see, all that we have to do is open the newspapers and research into some of the daily news items,” he told BEATWAVES as he bemoaned the storylines of most Ghanaian movies.
“I am not criticizing my colleagues; I appreciate what they are doing. They are trying the best they can, but some of the stories are flimsy and are often not rooted in reality. It is all about fantasy.
I believe we should sit up and start doing stories that will have a realistic urge,” he indicated.
“We should be able to do original stories. Up till now, we have not even done a movie about the stadium disaster. There are so many stories that we have to look at and that is what we at Revele are looking at in our next films.”
Revele, he noted, was set up in 2003, with the objective to provide high quality entertainment through better movies, feature film among others. And, over the years, it has not failed in doing so.
It is the brain behind the sitcoms, ‘Home Sweet Home’ and ‘Hotel St. James’, one of the few to reckon with.
Its hit movie “Run Baby Run” collected not less than four awards at the 2008 edition of the African Movie Academy Awards, and as well won the Best Narrative Feature-The Pan African Programmers Merit Award at the 17th edition of Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF) in Los Angeles in February this year.
In July, the movie would be going to another film festival in Atlanta. Mr. Apea disclosed that this year, the company is coming out with not less than four movies to whip up the emerging competition in the movie industry, as well as set standards that would be hard to emulate.
- Francis Addo, Daily Guide Ghana
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