Award-winning American director and producer, Spike Lee has revealed that nobody from Ghana\u2019s film industry attempted to approach or speak to him during his stay in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking in an interview on Asaase Radio<\/em>, the \u2018Da 5 Bloods\u2019 filmmaker stated that he would have loved to communicate with people in the film industry and share some trade ideas, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spike Lee said that he had no idea Ghana had a film industry adding that although his arrival was made public, he was not engaged by key stakeholders in the local movie industry including the National Film Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI did not know that there is a thriving film industry in Ghana, I know about Nigeria. And I made the point that it was publicised that I was coming and no one approached me from the film office. I would have loved to meet the people in the film industry here [in Ghana].\u201d He said that he was readily available to communicate not only with the school head but also students of the film school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spike Lee was in Ghana on Sunday, March 26, the same day as US Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 visit. peacefm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Award-winning American director and producer, Spike Lee has revealed that nobody from Ghana\u2019s film industry attempted to approach or speak to him during his stay in the country. Speaking in an interview on Asaase Radio, the \u2018Da 5 Bloods\u2019 filmmaker stated that he would have loved to communicate with people in the film industry and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,6409],"tags":[9742,6778,192,11491,11493,11398,3114,10972,2066,434,11973,11450,3805,6736,6047,10329,214,6348,2802,5704],"class_list":["post-30407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-sports","tag-da","tag-engaged","tag-ghana","tag-harris","tag-interview","tag-kamala","tag-kamala-harris","tag-movie","tag-movie-industry","tag-nigeria","tag-one","tag-peacefm","tag-president","tag-school","tag-students","tag-trade","tag-university","tag-us","tag-vice-president","tag-vice-president-kamala-harris"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Spike Lee was also shocked to know Ghana had a film school, NAFTI (now the University of Media, Arts and Communication).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The filmmaker was reportedly part of the US Vice President\u2019s creative arts team.
Spike Lee was seen with his wife and other seasoned people involved in the arts sector in the US at the state banquet held in Kamala Harris\u2019 honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n