HISTORY SHOULD NOT BE ERASED
FROM Two-Time Academy Award-winning Director Ben Proudfoot
Producer IShowSpeed and EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Barack & Michelle Obama
IN THEATERS
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY
OCTOBER 28
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WATCH THE TRAILER
Watch the trailer from producer Darren Watkins (IShowSpeed) and executive producers Michelle & Barack Obama.
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GET TICKETS
Find your city. Buy your tickets. Witness one of the world’s largest unseen film archives on the big screen.
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SPREAD THE WORD
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ABOUT THE FILM
A FORGOTTEN HISTORY
Chris Hesse served as the personal cameraman to the first president of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. In 1966, at the onset of a CIA-backed coup, Nkrumah was removed from power, and the footage that Hesse had spent a decade capturing was burned by the coupmakers. All was lost. Or so they thought.
A LEGACY RESTORED
For decades, Chris Hesse has preserved over 1,000+ reels of Ghana's liberation story — marking it as the single largest existing archive detailing Ghana's liberation story.
FOR THE FIRST TIME
On October 28, join audiences around the world for a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience, to witness this never-before-seen archive.
ABOUT THE FILM
From Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot, executive producers Barack and Michelle Obama, and producer IShowSpeed, THE EYES OF GHANA is a stunning feature documentary following 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—as he 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.
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