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From Oscar-winning director Ben Proudfoot, THE EYES OF GHANA is a 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.
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Ben Proudfoot is a two-time Academy Award® winning documentary filmmaker and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Breakwater Studios. Born in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1990 to an attorney father and sociologist mother, Proudfoot (a name of Scottish ancestry) was raised in a home that respected hard work and the transformative power of storytelling to inspire change and create a more just society.
