Cape Town, SA. Director Jordy Sank, and producers Gabriella Blumberg and Samantha Pelteret bagged three awards for Best Short Film, Audience Choice and Best Script for their film Leemtes en Leegheid at the recent kykNET Silwerskerm Film Festival in Cape Town. This honour follows hot on the heels of Sank and Blumberg’s debut award-winning feature I am Here, a documentary …

Esi Hammond didn’t realise she was filming Ghana’s first Showmax Original series until much later when the promotion for ENO began. “I asked myself if this is my breakthrough. Being a part of this project means a lot to me. It’s a blessing,” she says. The young Ghanaian actress is one of the many new faces who are starting to …

One decade down, forever to go! Ghana’s premium lifestyle and aspirational magazine, Glitz Africa has released its 10th anniversary issue. For the past 10 years, Glitz Africa has shared the stories of many phenomenal men and women in various fields of endeavours, young and rising creatives and industrious public figures alike. In this special issue, we put the spotlight on …

For Mariam Owusu-Poku, Miss Malaika Ghana 2018, moving from modeling to acting was inevitable. “I’ve always wanted to act, and acting and pageantry are not too far apart.” Even though she’s featured in a few TV shows and movies, ENO, the just-launched Ghanaian Showmax Original drama series, is her biggest project so far. Mariam plays Kendall, the last of Abena …

One of the fresh faces in the Ghanaian film and TV industry, Emelia Asiedu has always been passionate about acting. “By age 6, my cousins and I would perform full shows and our parents would actually sit and watch them.” A theatre major from University Iowa, Emelia has performed Off-Broadway and has co-founded a theatre company, Accra Theatre Workshop, in …

The Real Housewives of Lagos (RHOLagos) will debut exclusively on Showmax on 8 April 2022, with new episodes every Friday. RHOLagos follows the opulent lives of six of the most glamorous women in Lagos, Nigeria. Carolyna Hutchings is the CEO of Hutchings Limited, a real estate, oil and gas, and agriculture company. She is also the founder of Hopeville Foundation, …

“I literally feel like a history maker.” “Why ENO? Why that name?” Gloria Osei-Sarfo asked herself when she first heard about ENO. This curiosity was one of the reasons she was drawn into the role of Abena Baafi, the overbearing mother at the heart of the new Ghanaian drama series now streaming on Showmax. The other was the fact that …

Johannesburg, 4 March 2022: Apple Music is honouring Ghana’s Independence Day, with Trotro Vibes, a month-long campaign to honour Ghana’s bustling new wave of artists and the impact they are having on a global scale. Trotro Vibes is centred around the theme of the Trotro, which are Ghana’s public transport buses that can be seen and heard all around the …

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 3, 2022 — Merck Foundation (Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany announced the Winners of Merck Foundation Film Awards ‘More Than a Mother’ 2021 in partnership with African First Ladies who are also the Ambassadors of Merck Foundation More Than a Mother. The theme of the awards was: to create a film …

In the first few minutes of episode 1 of ENO, the new Ghanaian drama series, Abena Baafi is on her knees. She’s thanking God for making her greater than her enemies and praying for the prosperity of her family, and specifically for her three daughters to get highly successful husbands. She prays for her firstborn, Tessa, to set a “good …