Emmanuel Apea
{{Short description|Ghanaian media director}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Emmanuel Apea
| nationality = Ghanaian
| education = Achimota School
| alma_mater = University of London;
Niagara College
| occupation = TV and film director
| notable_works = Run Baby Run
| awards = 2008 Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director
}}
Emmanuel Apea, Jr. is a Ghanaian television and film director, 2008 winner of the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director.
Early life
Emmanuel Apea is the son of Reverend Emmanuel Apea Sr, a former United Nations Ambassador and Co-ordinator to West Africa and ECOWAS, and Emma Apea, a Healthcare practitioner. He studied at Achimota School, the University of London in the United Kingdom and Niagara College in Canada.{{cite news|url=http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?section=6&newsid=523|title=Home Sweet Home...The show you can't get enough of|work=The Statesman|date=16 September 2006|access-date=21 February 2011|location=Accra, Ghana|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717032742/http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?section=6&newsid=523|archivedate=17 July 2011}} He started out directing a series of popular TV serialized dramas. He was the first director of Taxi Driver in 1998, and the producer of the soap opera Home Sweet Home which began airing in 2003. Hotel St. James, set in Kumasi and in a mix of Akan and English, began airing in 2005.Doku, Francis, "Another Apea success series", Graphic Showbiz, Issue 538 (January 20–26, 2005), [https://books.google.com/books?id=jIvsSRDtwn4C&pg=PA3 p. 3.]
Apea's 2006 movie Run Baby Run won four Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2008, with Apea winning the Award for Best Director.Anangfio Jnr., Ebenezer, [https://www.ghanacelebrities.com/2010/07/06/revele-films-is-back-with-a-new-project-%E2%80%98elmina%E2%80%99-on-board-is-akorfa-asiedu-ama-k-abebrese-others/ "Revele Films Is Back With A New Project ‘Elmina’ & On Board Are Akorfa Asiedu, Ama K Abebrese, John Apea & Others"], ghanacelebrities.com, 6 July 2010. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025154603/https://www.ghanacelebrities.com/2010/07/06/revele-films-is-back-with-a-new-project-%E2%80%98elmina%E2%80%99-on-board-is-akorfa-asiedu-ama-k-abebrese-others/ |date=25 October 2018 }}. A 2010 movie, Elmina, attracted critical attention.Ralph, Michael, & Lauren Coyle, "Resource Curse?: a review of Elmina (2010), directed by Emmanuel Apea, Jr.", Transition Magazine: An International Review, Vol. 107, No. 1, January 2012, pp. 150–59.Bryce, Jane, "Elmina: Obroni Art of Popular Melodrama?", Black Camera, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 2014), pp. 134–150.
Filmography
- Run Baby Run, 2006
- Elmina, 2010
References
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Category:Alumni of Achimota School
Category:Alumni of the University of London
Category:Ghanaian film directors
Category:Ghanaian television directors
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