Sam Greatorex Aryeetey (born 23 August 1929[1] or 1927[2]) is a Ghanaian film producer, film director and writer. He is often credited as the director of the first Ghanaian feature film, No Tears for Ananse.[3]
Sam Aryeetey was born August 23, 1929, in Accra. He was educated at Accra Methodist Boys' School and Achimota School.[1] Among the first students at an Accra film training school for West Africans established by the Colonial Film Unit in 1948, Sam Aryeetey joined the new Gold Coast Film Unit under Sean Graham.[4] In 1952 he moved to work as an editor in England.[5]
In 1963, Sam Aryeetey returned to Ghana to work for the Ghana Film Industry Corporation (GFIC).[6]No Tears for Ananse, written and directed by Aryeetey, was the first GFIC production. It was based on Joe de Graft's play Ananse and the Gum Man', a story about the tricksterAnanse.[4]
In 1969, Sam Aryeetey became managing director of the GIFC. Manthia Diawara has argued that, by choosing to employ Europeans rather than Africans to “make films for Ghana”.
^ abRaph Uwechue (1991). Africa Who's who. Africa Journal Limited. p. 220. ISBN978-0-903274-17-3.
^"Aryeetey, Sam, 1927- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
^Ian Aitken (2016). Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia. Edinburgh University Press. p. 59. ISBN978-1-4744-0721-2.
^ abCarmela Garritano (15 February 2013). African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History. Ohio University Press. pp. 48–. ISBN978-0-89680-484-5.
^Tom Rice, Gold Coast Film Unit, ‘’Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire’’, June 2010.
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