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19/03/2026

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(Left to Right )Ato Yanney Jnr and Jesse Sunkwa Mills at the event. Ato Yanney Jnr, son of the late filmmaker Ato Kwamina Yanney, has emphasized the need for quality films that stand the test of ti…

14/03/2026

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Tommy Ebow Ansah (Tumi Ansa) Ghanaian film legend Tommy Ebow Ansah, aka Tumi Ansa, has called on the youth to preserve the legacy of Ghanaian cinema. He made this appeal at a special screening of t…

04/03/2026

26/11/2025

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Ato Kwamina Yanney (Ato Yanney SNR) (First Ghanaian Director to shoot on Panavision lenses)

Ato was born on the 22nd January 1933 at Senya Bereku in the Central Region of Ghana.

He attended the London school of Film Technique, where he studied screenplay writing and directing.

He then went to the London University to pursue a degree in film critique and appreciation.

During his days in England, he wrote short stories for B.B.C Home service which was broadcast to British Audiences.

One of the stories that he is fondly remembered for is the “Ominous Sneeze”, broadcast on BBC Home Service.

Remembering the adage ‘there is no place like home,’ he returned to Ghana to join the Ghana Film Industry Corporation (Now Gama Film Company (GFC)) in 1963, and with dedication and hard work he became the Head of Production of the corporation.

He then left Ghana in the early sixties to study at the Feature and Documentary Film Studious in Poland.

Whilst at the Ghana Film Industry Corporation he wrote and directed several documentaries which dwelled on social, political and religious issues. Among his great works are “Panoply of Ghana”, THE MARKET DAY, CULT OF TWINS, POPULATION CENSUS, GOLDEN POD, RAINBOW COLORS, NEW BREED, GENESIS CHAPTER X (screenplay), NO TEARS FOR ANANSE (screenplay), DEATH ON WHEELS etc.

The late Ato Kwamina Yanney also wrote and directed video productions such as THE LAST SHOW, with Allen Gyimah’s Video City in 1987, and served as a consultant with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation in the early 90’s, and was also responsible for the grooming of celebrated Film Directors like George Bosompim, Ivan Quashigah, Yaw Boakye, William Tamakloe, and introduced celebrated filmmaker and cousin Kwaw Ansah into filmmaking, to mention but a few.

He was honoured for his contribution to the development of the Ghanaian film industry in the field of film production and directing during their 40th-anniversary celebrations, and a certificate of distinction in script writing during the centenary of world cinema.

He was also a regular contributor to articles on social, political and religious issues in the National dailies like the Daily Graphic and Times and a member of the British Film Institute and a member of the Ghana Academy of Film and Television Arts

17/07/2025

02/02/2024

Three missing soldiers, a Ghanaian ( then Gold Coast) sergeant, an Indian corporal and a British private find themselves brought together by fate and war in the jungles of Burma during World War 2 in 1944, the issues of supremacy raises its head leading to the death of one of the group. His Majesty'...

15/01/2024

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Three missing soldiers, a Ghanaian ( then Gold Coast) sergeant, an Indian corporal and a British private find themselves brought together by fate and war in the jungles of Burma during World War 2 in 1944, the issues of supremacy raises its head leading to the death of one of the group. His Majesty'...

21/07/2023

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“His Majesty's Sergeant”, the only African movie (war) on world war 2, written and directed by Ato Yanney (snr), one of the pioneers of the Ghanaian film industry, has finally been deposited at the British Film institute due to the unavailability...

01/05/2023

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OLD SIMPSON SERIES IS A HILARIUOS COMEDY FEATURING VETERAN SOLOMON SAMPAH, WHO STARS AS A RETIRED OLD OXFORD GRADUATE AND HAS RESORTED TO COFFIN MAKING WITH ...

25/04/2023

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OLD SIMPSON SERIES IS A HILARIUOS COMEDY FEATURING VETERAN SOLOMON SAMPAH, WHO STARS AS A RETIRED OLD OXFORD GRADUATE AND HAS RESORTED TO COFFIN MAKING WITH ...

04/03/2023

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