Cinema Africa 2023 - A conversation with Eugene Boateng

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foreign welcome to this interview I have a very wonderful guest with me today in the name of Eugene Water yes an afro German uh filmmaker after dancer professional dancer and also choreographer who grew up in Dusseldorf but has Ghanaian Roots yes and we are having him here because he's the main actor of a very main actor and co-producer of a very interesting film that has won several Awards recently and we are really really honored to have him here in person to discuss with us not only the film but also the background and also his work as uh you know as a filmmaker as an actor as choreographer also a singer because he has a huge he has a wonderful you know trajectory and so welcome to the Africa multiple cluster of Excellence where our main objective is so we configure African studies and reconfiguration always has to do with images so images of Africa and how do we you know walk through and also maybe you know give a counter discourse to this images of Africa in Europe particularly but also even to the Africans because also like the the image of Africans to Africa is foreign problematic so thanks so much and so we are going to be talking about your film yes uh but also the circumstances that surround the film and just to say that you have a double role in this film you are the main actor and also the co-producer how do you reconcile these rules uh in a film because both have different you know uh considerations or different principles uh first of all thank you thank you thank you thank you and um you mentioned a lot so thank you for that and um to answer your question you know making a film is a group project so you don't do anything by yourself so um being an actor and a co-producer means you also have producers on on the team in the team who are working as well you know so um I can there are times where I can focus as an actor and there are times where I have to work as a producer and I can switch between those roles because of the team you know so um it was it… Read the full text about 4,065 words