{"id":1266245,"date":"2022-12-16T20:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/nfa-set-to-launch-ghana-cinema-week\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T20:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:19:23","slug":"nfa-set-to-launch-ghana-cinema-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/nfa-set-to-launch-ghana-cinema-week\/","title":{"rendered":"NFA Set To Launch Ghana Cinema Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Juliet Asante<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Film Authority (NFA) of Ghana in collaboration with Afrocinemaplus is set to launch the Ghana Cinema Week programme scheduled for Friday, December 23, 2022, at the Silverbird Cinema, Accra Mall.<\/p>\n<p>The week-long programme, which is scheduled to open from Friday, December 23 to Thursday, December 29, 2022, is aimed at creating an avenue for business growth, establishing sustainable distribution channels for Ghanaian films and helping restore the interest of Ghanaians in Ghanaian films.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of NFA, Ms. Juliet Yaa Asantewa Asante said, \u201cGhanaians have always loved Ghanaian films and this is an opportunity to re-energise the beautiful marriage between the two by bringing to their doorsteps Ghanaian films they can take pride in and enjoy with the entire family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCinema is important for building and developing the local communities and the National Film Authority is very mindful of this as we pursue the cinema agenda to bring Ghanaians great Ghanaian stories and sell the Ghanaian brand positively to the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s all work together to energise the cinema-going culture in Ghana,\u201d the CEO stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Cinema Week is designed to exhibit selected Ghanaian films at selected locations across the country within the scheduled period. More than ten films have been selected to showcase at various locations, projecting to target between 20,000 to 40,000 people (including families, corporate organisations, students, youth, and kids) for the first edition.<\/p>\n<p>The titles for the films include \u2018The Agency\u2019, \u2018Gold Coast Lounge\u2019, \u2018Road to My Father\u2019s Compound\u2019, \u2018Born of the Earth\u2019, \u2018Asantewaa\u2019, \u2018Hankuri\u2019, \u2018Kadara\u2019, \u2018That Night\u2019, \u2018Lucky\u2019, \u2018God is African\u2019 and several short films from the Ghana Academy of Film and Television Arts.<\/p>\n<p>The films are scheduled to show at Silverbird Cinemas, Oyarifa Mall, TV3, The Page Centre, Royal View Cinema \u2013 Kumasi, Platinum Bay Hotel, Gold Coast Restaurant, etc.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juliet Asante \u00a0 The National Film Authority (NFA) of Ghana in collaboration with Afrocinemaplus is set to launch the Ghana Cinema Week programme scheduled for Friday, December 23, 2022, at the Silverbird Cinema, Accra Mall. The week-long programme, which is scheduled to open from Friday, December 23 to Thursday, December 29, 2022, is aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10746,85,1598,19468,618,602],"class_list":["post-1266245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cinema","tag-ghana","tag-launch","tag-nfa","tag-set","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266245","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=1266245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}