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Emmanuel Apea, Jr. is a Ghanaian television and film director, 2008 winner of the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director.




Early life


Emmanuel Apea is the son of Reverend Emmanuel Apea Sr, a former United Nations Ambassador and Co-ordinator to West Africa and ECOWAS, and Emma Apea, a Healthcare practitioner. He studied at Achimota School, the University of London in the United Kingdom and Niagara College in Canada. He started out directing a series of popular TV serialized dramas. He was the first director of Taxi Driver in 1998, and the producer of the soap opera Home Sweet Home which began airing in 2003. Hotel St. James, set in Kumasi and in a mix of Akan and English, began airing in 2005.
Apea's 2006 movie Run Baby Run won four Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2008, with Apea winning the Award for Best Director. A 2010 movie, Elmina, attracted critical attention.




Filmography


Run Baby Run, 2006
Elmina, 2010




References

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• Sutradara Terbaik (Africa Movie Academy Award)
• Film Terbaik (Africa Movie Academy Award)
• Emmanuel Apea
• List of film and television directors
• Run Baby Run (2006 film)
• List of Achimotans
• List of African films
• Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director
• Mary Ashun
• List of Africa Movie Academy Awards ceremonies
• Run Baby Run
• Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Film