Long before the likes of Thomas Sankara, Robert Mugabe and Nelson Mandela burst onto the international scene as the faces of anti-imperialism in Africa, one man stood head and shoulders above his peers as the leading political voice and the very embodiment of Africa’s struggle against colonialism.

Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, took the world by storm as he led his nation to become the first black African nation to gain independence from the European powers. But just as Nkrumah’s revolutionary leadership in Ghana, would trigger a wave of independence movements all across sub-saharan Africa, his gradual decline and sudden overthrow would also become a familiar story across virtually all of Africa’s newly independent states.

This is the story of how Dr Kwame Nkrumah went from being Ghana’s messiah and a faultless hero to a political pariah, whose ultimate demise would lead to wild celebrations in the streets by the very same people that had once loved and adored him.

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The film is a modern adaptation of an Ananse tale adapted to the living environment of children from Accra's notorious e-waste slum 'Agbogbloshi'. Students from the 'Bethel Evangelical Church of Ghana School' in the heart of the slum often called 'Sodom and Gomorra' created this film together with German filmmaker Johannes Preuß and Professor Bea Lundt from the University of Flensburg.

Project film, 60 minutes.
Nigeria 2017.
European Union (EU) and Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

PLATEAU ON THE MOVE derives its messages from the project “Deepening Economic Development for Peace and Stability in Plateau State, Nigeria”, financed by the EU and implemented by GIZ. The spotlight is turned on dedicated people working towards peace and economic progress in a crisis-ridden region.

Directed, produced and edited by: Johannes Preuss
Camera: Twamsan Danaan, George Joel
Music and Narration: Jeremiah Gyang
Animation: Oleg Kauz
Location Sound: Twamsen Danaan, Hirse Dalaham
Executive Producer: Sylvia Hoster

⁣Plateau on the Move - Nigeria 2017 [Hausa]
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Project film, 60 minutes.
Nigeria 2017.
European Union (EU) and Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

PLATEAU ON THE MOVE derives its messages from the project “Deepening Economic Development for Peace and Stability in Plateau State, Nigeria”, financed by the EU and implemented by GIZ. The spotlight is turned on dedicated people working towards peace and economic progress in a crisis-ridden region.

Directed, produced and edited by: Johannes Preuss
Camera: Twamsan Danaan, George Joel
Music and Narration: Jeremiah Gyang
Animation: Oleg Kauz
Location Sound: Twamsen Danaan, Hirse Dalaham
Executive Producer: Sylvia Hoster

Shortfilm of 12 min about the famous folktale character Kweku Ananse - the Ghanaian 'Spiderman'. In this well known story K. A. sets out to collect all the wisdom in the world and tries hiding in on top of a tree.

Welcome to audiovisual Anansesem! Produced 2013 close to Kakum National Park in the Central Region of Ghana.

This short film is for mango farmers. It shows how to identify and control Anthracnose.

The film was shoot in the Brong Ahafo Region in Ghana in collaboration with the Kintampo Farmers Association.

Explains how to build a fruit fly trap with a plastic bottle, a pheromone (Methyl Eugenol) and an insecticide (Plan D).

Four farmers from the Eastern Region in Ghana share their experiences on fruit fly control: 1) How to build a fruit fly trap for monitoring. 2) How to install it in the tree. 3) How to use a protein bait to control fruit flies. 4) The role of farm hygiene in fruit fly management.

This is a participatory film. Farmers wrote the script and decided on the messages to share with their colleagues.

⁣"Rice is our Business" - Ghana