Lack of Creativity Is What is Killing The Movie Industry – Kobina Ansah

Ghana’s young and budding playwright, Kobina Ansah, has stated that the main canker eating up the Ghana movie industry is lack of creativity.

The young playwright who has always had a means of getting the attention of his readers and audience with his unconventional titles, has revealed that most script writers movie producers are not creative enough hence the ailing industry.

It would be recalled that after popular actress Yvonne Nelson’s recently attacked her colleagues via social media for according to her their being obsessed with only slaying on the red carpet while the movie industry is dying.

She consequently announced her intentions to start a campaign to save the industry by forming a coalition of industry persons to present a petition to the government.

However, Kobina Ansah believes Yvonne’s campaign will come to nought for lack of creativity in the industry.

Speaking in an interview with Nana Adwoa Annan; host of E-news on Accra-based Atinka TV, he said:

‘It all comes down to creativity. One thing I have noticed is that Most of our movie producers and script writers are not creative enough…they always copy from foreign movies. Most of our movies don’t have deep contents. All you see are insults.”

He added “Some of the producers from Kumawood, especially, don’t have the expertise. They don’t really have the wholesome knowledge of what they are doing. They just put things together and within two days they’ve shot a movie which is bad, because everything done in the rush doesn’t come out good. It must not be about the quantity but quality.”

Kobina Ansah is credited with plays such as “I Want To Sue God”, 'This Family Is Not For Sale’ and ‘My wife in-law’.

His fifth play, “Tribeless” will be staged today, Saturday September 16, 2017 at the drama studio in Legon, UG.