{"id":435580,"date":"2017-11-09T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/09\/i-turned-down-an-offer-to-direct-pornography-pascal-aka\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T19:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T19:00:29","slug":"i-turned-down-an-offer-to-direct-pornography-pascal-aka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/09\/i-turned-down-an-offer-to-direct-pornography-pascal-aka\/","title":{"rendered":"I turned down an offer to direct pornography &#8211; Pascal Aka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Movies of Thursday,  9 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/78033932.295.jpg\" alt=\"PascalAkasakora\" title=\"PascalAkasakora\" width=\"295\" height=\"210\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Pascal Aka, Film and Music Video Director<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151021603889387\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151021603889387\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1510254029_997_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Award winning film director Aka says he turned down an offer to direct a pornography movie after he won \u2018Best Action Sequence\u2019 and \u2018Best Foreign Film\u2019 at \u2018Action On Film Festival\u2019 in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Narrating his ordeal to the host of \u2018Tonight Show\u2019 Andrew Tandoh Adote, the film and music video director said after winning the awards, he went to a strip club because he had issues with his girlfriend. <\/p>\n<p>At the strip club he was taken into a room where the offer which came along with cocaine and huge sum of money was given to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the room, I saw some cocaine and money and I was asked to direct some porn movie\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal Aka said he had to tell those involved that he will be right back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them I will be right back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b> Profile of Aka <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pascal Aka was born in Ivory Coast on July 17th 1985 and raised in Ghana. He is a graduate from Carleton University&#8217;s film studies program and is a former trainee at the Independent Filmmaker&#8217;s Cooperative of Ottawa, where he eventually became an elected Director&#8217;s General, Chairman of the Diversity Commitee and Vice-President. <\/p>\n<p>At the young age of 21, Aka completed his first feature movie &#8220;Jamie and Eddie: Souls of Strife&#8221;, which he wrote, directed and co-starred in. The film became an official selection at the 2009 &#8220;Action On Film Festival&#8221; where it was given an award for &#8220;Best Action Sequence&#8221; and nominated for &#8220;Best Foreign Film&#8221;. It was also rated as one of the &#8220;Best Film By A Local Filmmaker&#8221; in the Ottawa Xpress Magazine in 2007. <\/p>\n<p>His sophomore feature action film &#8220;EVOL&#8221; (Love spelt backwards) proceeded to gain even more success as Aka and his team returned to the AOF Festival the next year with a whopping 5 Award nominations (Breakout Action Star, Best Action Sequence, Best Martial Arts Sequence, Best Fight Choreography, Best Guerrilla Film). <\/p>\n<p>After a packed sold out screening at the theatre in California, the film left the festival with the &#8220;Audience Choice Award&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>EVOL&#8217;s success outside Canada attracted a media blitz, stories of the film&#8217;s success were featured on CBC, CTV, Roger&#8217;s TV, A-Channel and was featured on numerous newspapers, which all helped the film&#8217;s homecoming premiere to be a double sold-out event on November 19th and 21st 2010 at the Mayfair Theatre. <\/p>\n<p>After a successful 9 years in Canada, Pascal Aka has returned to bring his skills and passion to the home country, Ghana; where he found a new production company -&#8220;Breakthrough Media Productions&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Aka and his new team form the company produce music videos for West African artistes and have plans to revolutionize the standards in the West African movie industry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-494qH3_v3k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: -1 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/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>Movies of Thursday, 9 November 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-11-09 play videoPascal Aka, Film and Music Video Director Award winning film director Aka says he turned down an offer to direct a pornography movie after he won \u2018Best Action Sequence\u2019 and \u2018Best Foreign Film\u2019 at \u2018Action On Film Festival\u2019 in 2009. 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