Emmanuel Apea, Jr. is a Ghanaian TV and film director, 2008 winner of the
Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director.
Early life
Emmanuel Apea is the son of Reverend Emmanuel Apea Snr, a former
United Nations Ambassador and Co-ordinator to West Africa and
ECOWAS and Emma Apea, a Healthcare practitioner. He studied at
Achimota School
Achimota School ( /ɑːtʃimoʊtɑː/ ), formerly Prince of Wales College and School at Achimota, later Achimota College, now nicknamed Motown, is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. The school wa ...
, the
University of London in the
United Kingdom and
Niagara College in
Canada. He started out directing a series of popular TV serialized dramas. He was the first director of ''Taxi Driver'' in 1998, and the producer of the soap opera ''Home Sweet Home'' which began airing in 2003. ''Hotel St. James'', set in
Kumasi and in a mix of
Akan and
English, began airing in 2005.
Apea's 2006 movie ''
Run Baby Run'' won four
Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2008, with Apea winning the
Award for Best Director.
Revele Films Is Back With A New Project ‘Elmina’ & On Board Are Akorfa Asiedu, Ama K Abebrese, John Apea & Others
''ghanacelebrities.com'', 6 July 2010. A 2010 movie, ''Elmina'', attracted critical attention.[Michael Ralph & Lauren Coyle, 'Resource Curse?: a review of Elmina (2010), directed by Emmanuel Apea, Jr.', ''Transition: An International Review'', Vol. 107, No. 1, January 2012, pp.150-59.][Jane Bryce, 'Elmina: Obroni Art of Popular Melodrama?', ''Black Camera'', Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 2014), pp.134-150]
Filmography
* '' Run Baby Run'', 2006
* ''Elmina'', 2010
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ghanaian film directors
Ghanaian television directors
Alumni of Achimota School
Alumni of the University of London
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