Local Movies Represent Ghana - Kumawood Film Festival Launched

On the 20th of this Month, a debut film festival dubbed, ‘Kumawood Film Festival and Akoben Movie Awards’ were launched at the Miklin hotel, Kumasi. The festival is a five day event starting from the 28th of November to 2nd December, 2011.

The door for submission of movies is open to all production houses that produce movies in Ghanaian dialect/dialogs.

Literally, Kum is a name of a tree from which the capital of the Ashanti Region was derived, Kumasi. Not compulsory though, the attachment of wood on the other hand has become an emblem of most movie making industry in the world. Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood are the mentions but few of the movie industries.

The crystal mode – Award, Akoben, is a horn blown to alerts warriors of the Ashanti Kingdom. Therefore, awarding the industrial players that may stand tall in the various categories of the Local movies will alert the non-winners to improve on their working skills to grant them an award in the sequence festival.

English is the language of our colonial masters yet we term our Akan, Hausa, Ewe etc. movies as a local film rather the English as Ghana films. Preferably, the local movies should rather be the Ghana Films because English is not our language.

Most of us are shy to play a patriotism role when both industries (English and Local) are involve because the mind set of a Ghanaian is that, “Anyone who speaks an indigenous dialect in public is either not educated or civilized.” This being the reason, Kumawood and Akoben has come to light our path so we can copy rightly by erasing the degradation on our indigenous movies.

We enjoy all the lies in Chinese movies yet we condemn that of the “Kumasi movies”. Bollywood is identified with it Hindi and cantata movies yet it industry comes second after Hollywood. Let’s join hands with Kumawood entertainment and concept developers to cement the Festival and it Award to go International.

Kumawood has come to stay, long live Akoben – long live movies produced in our local dialects.http://www.ameyawdebrah.com/