David Dontoh has said that ninety per cent of the films produced in Ghana these days do not qualify to be referred to as such.
“We’re making a lot more films today but about 90% of them don’t qualify to be called films,” he told AJ Sarpong on Citi TV’s Hall of Fame.
He explained that a lot of things are taken for granted in the Ghanaian film industry.
According to him, every aspect of the performing arts need to be scripted but the opposite happens in Ghana.
“Whatever you do if even it’s dance you need to script its presentation and especially with drama the script plays major role because you have to have all the elements of drama in it and not only the elements of drama but the devices you use to really expatiate the theme that you’re actually putting across through the play or the drama or the film or whatever,” he said.
He said unlike in his time when it took writers four years to script before producing a very good film, now writers just take few pages of script unto set and not include the dialogue parts in the script and the director just ask the actors to do it how they want to.
He complained about why there should be old actors but film producers would rather go for young ones and use makeup to make them look old.
“We’re not writing good scripts, especially in these days. Apart from Shirley and a couple of other people we’re not writing good scripts at all. Which is very bad,” he added.
He concluded by appealing to the legislative arm to expedite the passage of the legislative instrument for the Film Act.
