Emmanuel Apea

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

Emmanuel Apea
Nationality	Ghanaian
Education	Achimota School
Alma mater	University of London; Niagara College
Occupation(s)	TV and film director
Notable work	Run Baby Run
Awards	2008 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Apea's 2006 movie Run Baby Run won four Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2008, with Apea winning the Award for Best Director.^[3] A 2010 movie, Elmina, attracted critical attention.^[4][5]

Filmography

• Run Baby Run, 2006
• Elmina, 2010