We recently connected with Nana Ghana and have shared our conversation below.

Nana, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

All my film works are meaningful to me. My first film LA WOMAN RISING https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3576896/ is a about the shared female experience about 50 women living in los Angeles. My sophomore film YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT HERE just premiered at the Harlem International film festival .
LOGLINE
YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT HERE is an emotional picture about a woman , EVE grieving her former life while navigating the 2020 pandemic.
SYNOPSIS
YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT HERE unfolds linearly, following  the day to day mundaneness of the lockdown. Eve , a young professional woman finds some solace in baking bread, deep cleaning, reading,  virtual therapy and gardening, for a moment there things are feeling good and content, but soon the painful memories of her past life take over, anxiety and crippling depression starts to set in. In 2020 while locked down \and trying to make sense of the whole world, I did what came natural to me . I started writing.
At that stage my writing was a way for me to make sense of the world . In the very early days of the pandemic, I kept getting a vision of this woman trapped in her house trying to navigate the new stay at home order. One night the story about this woman living alone in isolation flowed from my imagination onto paper.
Since it was my first time starring in my own feature film , I approached embodying this character as a performance art piece, because I was living and making this film simultaneously as the pandemic unfolded in real time.
As an immigrant, African black woman experiencing these wild revolutionary times in human history, it was cathartic to simply create, I wanted the film to serve as a container  which allowed the viewer  to bare  witness to a full spectrum emotions, like grief, rage, pain, vulnerability  and softness , an emotional journey we what we don’t often see our black female heroine go on.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

I want to tell stories that shines light on the forgotten people hiding in plain sight, I want to reveal what downright disturbs, terrify , heal, uplift, united and also entertain us.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

the most rewarding aspect of being an artist is to telling stories that move peoples heart, through laughter or tears ,nothing feels more rewarding than to connect with people and reflecting to them through my being and my work love, hope and everything good in between.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nanaghana/?hl=en
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nananomadicfilmaker
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWHBRgvLBuvGRzcoRcC2Pw

Image Credits

Karen Doolittle