{"id":1199073,"date":"2022-09-05T20:41:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/05\/my-mother-influenced-my-filmmaking-career-leila-djansi-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T20:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:41:20","slug":"my-mother-influenced-my-filmmaking-career-leila-djansi-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/05\/my-mother-influenced-my-filmmaking-career-leila-djansi-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"My mother influenced my filmmaking career \u2013 Leila Djansi reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/217391446_184338850238819_1813741729554353787_n-e1662396258855-1024x734.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Celebrated Ghanaian filmmaker, Leila Djansi, has revealed that her mother influenced her choice of career.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Djansi is a filmmaker of international repute.<\/p>\n<p>She made the interesting revelation on <strong>Joy FM<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Showbiz A-Z<\/strong> last Saturday, September 3. She shared the details of how she was subconsciously influenced by her mother to toe the line of filmmaking. \u201cI was going to be a gynecologist, and then a forensic scientist\u2026 but my mom was a big influence\u201d, she disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy family grew up in India, so my mom was exposed to Bollywood. She would make us cook with her and then she would tell us stories\u2026 so I think that fed my love for story-telling\u201d, she expatiated.<\/p>\n<p>Leila further explained that her love for story telling was reinforced and nurtured while in primary school, where she would read storybooks and perform plays based on the stories. \u201cI remember in Kabore [school], we had a library period so during [that time], we\u2019d take stories and share the parts and perform plays\u201d, she explained.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjoy997fm%2Fvideos%2F761326908472546%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Leila Djansi is recognized much for her 2011 film <em>Sinking Sands<\/em>, for which she picked up an award for Best Original Screenplay Award at the African Movie Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The movie also won \u2018Best Art Direction\u2019, \u2018Best Costume\u2019, \u2018Best West African Film\u2019 and \u2018Best Picture\u2019 at the Ghana Movie Awards in the same year. \u2018Ties that Bind\u2019 and \u2018Like Cotton Twines\u2019 and some other movies in her rich directing repertoire. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/my-mother-influenced-my-filmmaking-career-leila-djansi-reveals\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated Ghanaian filmmaker, Leila Djansi, has revealed that her mother influenced her choice of career. Ms. Djansi is a filmmaker of international repute. She made the interesting revelation on Joy FM\u2019s Showbiz A-Z last Saturday, September 3. She shared the details of how she was subconsciously influenced by her mother to toe the line of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[743,21702,25250,12580,21703,2755,51],"class_list":["post-1199073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-career","tag-djansi","tag-filmmaking","tag-influenced","tag-leila","tag-mother","tag-reveals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}