‘I WISH MY SON WILL BE A FOTBALLER’- SHIRLEY FRIMPONG MANSO

After successfully making a name in the movie industry with standard and classic movies, Shirley Frimpong Manso is out with another flick she calls “6 hours to Christmas”. During Christmas season a lot of opportunities and memories abound and every individual’s wish is to celebrate these opportunities and memories in style but what happens when things take a different dimension and the results become sour?

This is what the proficient and creative writer, director and producer, Shirley sought to portray in her latest movie. The movie ‘6 hours to Christmas’ tells a story of a young and creative director of an advertising outfit, Regie (Chris Attoh). He has promised his lovely wife fireworks and a dinner before the stroke of midnight on 24th night but when the night was due, Regie falls in the hands of her female colleague in the office, Pebbles played by Damilola Adegbite from Nigeria. She gives Regie a Christmas gift he finds it very impossible to refuse. Regie is now stuck between going home with Pebbles and going home to meet his lovely wife Akos.

Event unfolds and things begin to fall apart as wonderful moments turned sour between Regie, Pebbles, and his wife Akos. “6 hours Christmas’ is the normal ‘what if’ questions we ask and are faced with in our daily life activities crafted in a more thought provoking and comic manner. The movie also features Nii Odoi Mensah, Benny Eshun, Sena Tsikata from ‘Things we do for love’ fame and touches on social and ethical issues in relationships.

In an exclusive interview with Shirley, she mentioned that having a baby and a production house to run of which she is very much proud of could have been a very big challenge but thanks to the production team that she has, things have been more flexible for her than she thought. Asked whether she would like to see her new baby boy in her shoes as a movie star or a director, she simply says ‘I really do not want to force my son when it comes to the choice of career, I would want him to choose for himself” but was quick to add she would love him to play football because there seem to be so much money in it now but can’t impose that on him either. She smiled.

Shirley has been known over the few years of her existence for her style and approach to movies when it comes to storylines, camera, setting, plot and characters. She is inspired by the things that go around us when telling a story. She has also won the best Director at the AMAA’s and promises to lift high the flag of Ghana in the arts industry.