Award-winning actress, Akofa Edjeani has said male directors and producers in the movie industry fail to empower women more through their story telling or movies.
She explained that most male producers rather portray negativity about women in their movies because they do not understand women enough.
According to her, this calls for more female producers and directors in the industry because they empower women more and understand women better.
Akofa made these assertions on TV3’s New Day special edition of International Women’s Day on March 8.
“We do not have enough female producers or directors in the film business and that is one of the things that I really want to see change. When women write [stories or movies], it is richer because we understand what we go through. We highlight our strengths and ambitions and the things that women can do and how they can bring all those strengths to build the nation and make things work.
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“When men writes because they do not understand it shows in most of their stories so they tend to make women gossips, husband snatchers, all the negatives. You see some story, once the husband is dead, they are selling charcoal or they are crying but a woman won’t write stories like that. When your husband is dead, you will find what to do,” she noted.
Meanwhile, Akofa also added that the film industry has a fair gender representation of casts for roles for both men and women.
There’s fair gender representation of casts in Ghana’s film industry – Akofa Edjeani
She noted that there is no discrimination in the film industry for the number of casts for roles to be played by both men and women.
The President of Women in Film and Television emphasised that for the movie industry, the story line mostly determines the number of women to be casted in the movie.
“In the movie industry I think yes because it depends on the demands of the story.
“If the story is about a cast of 20 and female are 10 yes, then ten females will be needed but f they have only two females in the story [then two females will be needed]. So really it depends on the story,” she stated.