Through the Door of No Return (1997)
80 min
In a personal quest, filmmaker Shirikiana Aina made this documentary capturing her efforts to learn more about her father, who died when she was a child. A Michigan man descended from slaves, he was labeled a radical by the FBI. Aina traveled to Ghana, documenting an oral history of slavery in Elmina, a port where Africans were warehoused before shipping to the New World. She also filmed African-Americans who have established a colony in Ghana, choosing to raise their families there.
- Release date
- September 6, 1997
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
Crew
- Shirikiana Aina · Director
- Shirikiana Aina · Writer
- Shirikiana Aina · Producer
- Haile Gerima · Producer
- Rick Butler · Cinematographer
- Haile Gerima · Editor