The Eyes of Ghana (2025)
Keep on filming.
90 min
93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.
- Release date
- September 5, 2025
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Kris Bowers
Cast
Crew
- Kwame Nkrumah · Archive footage
- Ben Proudfoot · Director
- Anita Afonu · Producer
- Moses Bwayo · Producer
- Nana Adwoa Frimpong · Producer
- Ethan Lewis · Producer
- Kris Bowers · Composer
- David Feeney-Mosier · Cinematographer
- Brandon Somerhalder · Cinematographer
- Monica Salazar · Editor