That filmmaker, Chris Hesse, was the personal cinematographer to Kwame Nkrumah, the African revolutionary who became the first president of Ghana. Thus, Hesse had a front row seat to the dawn of African independence from colonialist rule and he captured it all on film — including Nkrumah’s rise and fall, as the politician was eventually overthrown by a coup. Much of that footage was ordered to be destroyed amid the political turmoil but the negatives were preserved in a secret archive in London. In the decades since, Hesse has worked to rescue and repatriate the collection.
“We really wanted to write a love letter to the power of cinema.
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