Shirley Frimpong-Manso
Shirley Frimpong-Manso (born 1977) is a Ghanaian film director, writer, and producer. She is the founder and CEO of Sparrow Productions, a film, television and advertising production company. She is described as one who "seeks to raise the standard of film production in Ghana and Africa by telling progressive African stories as seen through the eyes of Africans."[1] She won Best Director at the 6th Africa Movie Academy Awards. Frimpong-Manso is also a principal of Sparrow Station, a video streaming service for African entertainment from Sparrow and other African film producers.[2] In 2013, she was ranked the 48th most influential person in Ghana according to E.tv Ghana.[3]
Biography
Frimpong-Manso is from the Eastern Region of Ghana, from Kwahu Pepease. As a child she organized plays, which "felt a lot more fun than playing with sand and dolls."[1] She graduated in 2000 from the National Film and Television Institute of Ghana and worked as a presenter at Radio Gold, a private station in Accra, and then went on to start Sparrow Productions in 2003.[1]
Works
With producer and actress Juliet Asante, Frimpong-Manso helped produce the TV show Heart to Heart for two years shortly after school.
She has also produced:[1]
- Different Shades of Blue - a television series about five university girls who share a dormitory in a university hostel.
- Personalities Kitchen - a cooking program that hosts two personalities and challenges them to a rice meal of their choice.
- The Miss Ghana Pageant - she produced two semifinalists at the Miss World event within five years during her time.
Filmography
- The Perfect Picture (2009): the story of the lives and loves of several Ghanaian women friends,[4][5] focusing on marriage and societal norms of Ghana that are not represented in Western film.[6] Frimpong-Manso won Best Director for The Perfect Picture at the 2010 African Movie Academy Awards, where her films garnered a total of four awards.
- A Sting in a Tale (2009): "A cautionary tale about two Ghanaian men scrabbling to find jobs."[7] It won an Audience Favorite award at the 2010 Pan African Film & Arts Festival
- Life and Living It (2009): The stories of four male friends: a musician, a dancer, a doctor, and an advertising manager.[8] "Major themes include love, friendship, and family."[9]
- Scorned
- Check Mate
- Six Hours to Christmas: A tale of a creative director whose life was overturned when he was tempted to stray on Christmas Eve.[10]
- Adams Apples: a 10-part serial released during one year starting in April 2011. It follows the lives of four women (a mother and three adult children) in modern Ghana.[11][12][13]
- Potomanto (2013): About "an emotionally sore private investigator who mistakenly stumbles on a case of organ harvesting."[14]
- Contract: A successful businessman who desires to avoid marital responsibility contracts with a woman to bear his child.
- Devil in the Detail (2014)
- Love or Something Like That (2014)
- V-Republic (2014)
- Grey Dawn (2015)
Awards
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Amankwa, Obour (16 May 2010). "Biography of Shirley Frimpong-Manso: A Director with Outstanding Skills". GhanaCelebrities.com. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ↑ Abotsi, Maureen (13 December 2013). "Shirley Frimpong-Manso's Sparrow Station Goes Live!". Ghana Nation. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ↑ "Etv Ghana holds maiden edition of Ghana Most Influential People". etvghana.com. April 23, 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ↑ Debrah, Ameyaw (30 March 2009). "Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s Perfect Picture". Jamati.com.
- ↑ "The Perfect Picture (2009)". African Film Database. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Agyapong Febiri, Chris-Vincent. "BBC’s Interview With Shirley Frimpong Manso". GhanaCelebrities.com. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
- ↑ "Film reviews: Desert Flower & A Sting in a Tale". The Africa Report. 14 September 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ↑ "Life and Living It". Nollywood News. ModernGhana.com. 22 April 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ↑ "Life and Living It (2009)". African Film Database. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ↑ Smith, Hilda Lan (15 October 2010). "6 Hours to Christmas". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 2011-09-06.
- ↑ "Adams Apples". Internet Movie Database.
- ↑ "About Adams Apples". Movie web site. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
- ↑ "Adams Apples Movie". Facebook page.
- ↑ "Potomanto: NR Review". NollywoodREinvented. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
