Genesis A. Cudjoe

A good movie is one that speaks for itself. The truth of the matter is, it makes it difficult in finding the right words to review it. It's an "insult" of me to even give a constructive critique of it.  Seriously I wish the movie was first premiered in Ghana before crossing our borders. Children of the Mountain, a title that makes so much sense and if critically reviewed will effortlessly fall into the category of all time best movies produced in Ghana. Firstly, one thing I can't turn my eyes from is the fact that the movie in so many ways laughed by destroying the unreasonable divsion (Ghallywood and Kumawood) in the film industry as it respected every single rule of cinema as well as going into our culture by adopting 3 of the main languages (Twi, Fante, Ewe) spoken in Ghana for the whole 1hr 39mins of the film's timeframe devoid of English. The story also makes use of names that represent our culture and what we stand for. The story, simple still pulle...

The height Ghana  Films  is still hoping to reach needs more hands on deck. One person can’t do everything even if all the needed resources were available to him or her. Rome as beautiful as it is was never built in a day. Hollywood took more than 40 years before it could realized its potential by following a systematic process employing everything it could not forgetting the ‘people’ Ghana as a developing country in the West of Africa has also come to live in a cinematic world  whereby the experience people expect to acquire from  films  are criticized if not met. Why? Because most of what we are being given lack the necessary elements that give life to a film. I think the problem lies with the rush we produce  films  pertaining to story/screenplay. This part of production needs a lot of dedicated time before production starts. The hard truth is, NO QUALITY MOVIE can have its pre-production, production and post-production completed in a month or...