{"id":426002,"date":"2017-10-06T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/06\/shirley-frimpong-manso-edem-dotse-awarded-at-2017-silicon-valley-african-film-festival\/"},"modified":"2017-10-06T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:00:36","slug":"shirley-frimpong-manso-edem-dotse-awarded-at-2017-silicon-valley-african-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/06\/shirley-frimpong-manso-edem-dotse-awarded-at-2017-silicon-valley-african-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Frimpong Manso, Edem Dotse awarded at 2017 Silicon Valley African Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Shirley-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Ghanaian film director, writer, and producer. <strong>Shirley Frimpong Manso<\/strong> won the award for best <strong>Narrative Feature Film<\/strong> in the just ended\u00a0Silicon Valley African Film Festival in\u00a0San Francisco Bay Area of California.<\/p>\n<p>Her new movie <strong>POTATO POTAHTO,\u00a0<\/strong>alongside an Ethiopian Movie <strong>God\u2019s Bridge<\/strong> by Girum Ermyas Gebereselassie were both crowned Narrative Feature Film of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018POTATO Potahto\u201d, an African marital comedy of errors, based in Ghana and directed by one of Africa\u2019s best known female directors, Shirley Frimpong Manso, took the centre stage at the just concluded Cannes film festival, France when it was premiered.<\/p>\n<p>London based\u00a0Ghanaian\u00a0soul\/jazz singer Sutra and director Edem Dotse also made Ghana proud as they were both honoured with Special Recognition Award for Achievement in Narrative Short for their\u00a0<strong>Waves\/The Water\u00a0<\/strong>music video.<\/p>\n<p>Waves\/The Water (#W) is a visual narrative or film that merges two songs off her 2016 mixtape\u00a0<em>The Art of Being.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) promotes an understanding and appreciation of Africa and Africans through moving images.<\/p>\n<p>Aptly themed \u201cAfrica through the African lens\u201d, it is the only film festival in California that is exclusively focused on films made by African filmmakers and, crucially, provides audiences with exquisite lenses to the real Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The festival recognizes and celebrates the creation and discovery of cinematic art and innovation, and provides the San Francisco Bay Area community access to the richness, diversity and vitality of Africa\u2019s creative expressions through the lenses of Africa\u2019s seasoned and emerging filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p>SVAFF has built a substantial following and has become an annual destination film event that draws out of state and international guests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017 SVAFF Awards List<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Festival Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD \u2013 NADA IBRAHIM (FINDING ME) Egypt<\/p>\n<p><strong>NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM AWARD \u2013 SHIRLEY FRIMPONG \u2013 MANSO (POTATO POTAHTO) Ghana<\/strong> and GIRUM ERMYAS GEBERESELASSIE (GOD\u2019S BRIDGE) Ethiopia<\/p>\n<p>NARRATIVE SHORT FILM AWARD \u2013 KENI OGUNLOLA (LODGERS) Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>DOCUMENTARY FEATURE LENGTH AWARD \u2013 SONIA TERRAB (SHAKEAPEARE IN CASABLANCA) Morocco<\/p>\n<p>DOCUMENTARY SHORT LENGTH AWARD \u2013 OBIANUJUAKU AKUKWE (AFIA ATTACK) Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>ANIMATION AWARD \u2013 STEPHEN SHIMA LOSUN (CRUSH) Nigeria<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diaspora Spotlight Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DIASPORA NARRATIVE SHORT AWARD \u2013 SEWRA G. KIDANE (PROCLAMATION PUNCTUATION)and XAVIER BURGIN (ON TIME)<\/p>\n<p>DIASPORA DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARD \u2013 ELI JACOBS-FANTAUZZI (DANCE WITH YOUR HEART)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Recognition Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ACHIEVEMENT IN NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM \u2013 ARIAM WELDEAB (FORGIVENESS FOR WHOM?) Eritrea<\/p>\n<p>ACHIEVEMENT IN NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM \u2013 SHEMU JOYAH (THE ROAD TO SUNSHINE) Malawi<\/p>\n<p>ACHIEVEMENT IN NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM \u2013 ARNOLD AGANZE (N.G.O. NOTHING GOING ON) Uganda<\/p>\n<p>ACHIEVEMENT IN NARRATIVE SHORT FILM \u2013 LUNGELO KUZWAYO (SAWUBONA) South Africa<\/p>\n<p>ACHIEVEMENT IN NARRATIVE SHORT FILM \u2013 CONT DE MONK (ZAWAJA GALI) South Sudan<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACHIEVEMENT IN NARRATIVE SHORT \u2013 SUTRA AND EDEM DOTSE (WAVES\/THE WATER) Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ACHIEVEMENT IN ANIMATION FILM \u2013 GATUMIA GATUMIA (KURA) Kenya<\/p>\n<p>ACHIEVEMENT IN DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM \u2013 MAY YAM (HEALING HANDS) Namibia \/ USA<\/p>\n<p>ACHIEVEMENT IN DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM \u2013 OLUWASEUN BABALOLA (REPRESENT (SOJU) Nigeria \/ USA<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian film director, writer, and producer. Shirley Frimpong Manso won the award for best Narrative Feature Film in the just ended\u00a0Silicon Valley African Film Festival in\u00a0San Francisco Bay Area of California. Her new movie POTATO POTAHTO,\u00a0alongside an Ethiopian Movie God\u2019s Bridge by Girum Ermyas Gebereselassie were both crowned Narrative Feature Film of the year. \u2018POTATO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shirley Frimpong Manso, Edem Dotse awarded at 2017 Silicon Valley African Film Festival - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/06\/shirley-frimpong-manso-edem-dotse-awarded-at-2017-silicon-valley-african-film-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Shirley Frimpong Manso, Edem Dotse awarded at 2017 Silicon Valley African Film Festival - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghanaian film director, writer, and producer. 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