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Leila Djansi (Leila Afua Djansi) was born on 17-7-17 in Bangalore, is an American-Ghanaian filmmaker. Discover Leila Djansi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?

Popular As Leila Afua Djansi
Occupation Filmmaker
Age 43 years old
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Born 17-7-17, 1981
Birthday 17-7-17
Birthplace Bangalore
Nationality United States

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'Leila Afua Djansi is an American and Ghanaian filmmaker who started her film career in the Ghana film industry.

Leila Djansi was born Leila Afua Djansi.

Her father was a pilot and her mother a Senior Nursing Officer.

Djansi grew up in India and Ghana.

Although acting and writing were her hobbies, her career ambition was to become a gynecologist, a plan that later changed when she developed an interest in forensics.

Ready to delve into the field of criminology, another career change occurred when she met the Ghanaian actor Sam Odoi, who convinced her to write a script for him.

She was 19 years old when her script Babina was made into a movie by Producer Akwetey Kanyi.

Djansi attended the Kabore Primary and JSS, Mawuli School for primary, junior and secondary education respectively all located in Ho, in the Volta Region of Ghana.

She began her film education at the National Film and Television School, but left Ghana for the United States to continue her Film and Television Degree at Savannah College of Art and Design on an artistic Honors Scholarship.

1998

President of the Ghana Library Board Readers club for three years, American-Ghanaian filmmaker Leila Djansi began her sojourn in the entertainment industry when she was a runner-up in a regional beauty pageant in 1998 while she was in junior high school.

Djansi began her filmmaking career in Ghana at the age of 19 with the Ghana Film Company.

Djansi worked with the state-owned Gama Film Company, where she wrote and produced Legacy of Love.

Working her way to the United States on an Artist Honors Scholarship to study film at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Leila began her film career while she was still studying at SCAD.

2009

Her directorial debut I Sing of a Well in 2009 netted an unprecedented 11 nominations at the Africa Movie Academy Awards, winning the Special Jury Award for Overall Best Film.

In addition, the film was presented with the BAFTA/LA Choice Award at the Pan African Film Festival for excellence in filmmaking.

Djansi followed with the advocacy film Sinking Sands which supports the Say No to Violence Against Women campaign for UNiFEM Ghana.

Djansi's first film was awarded a 2009 worldFest Platinum Award; the film, Grass Between My Lips, is a story of female circumcision and early marriage, set in a northern Ghana village.

2010

In 2010, her debut feature, I Sing of a Well was nominated for 11 Africa Movie Academy Awards.

The film won 3 awards: Best Sound, Best Costume, and the Jury Special Award for Overall Best Film.

2011

In 2011, Djansi's Ties That Bind won Best Diaspora Film at the San Diego Black Film Festival, it also became an Official Selection to AFI's New African Films Festival in 2012.

The film's star Kimberly Elise (John Q, Confirmation) was nominated for Best Actress at the American Black Film Festival.

In 2011, Djansi was presented with the BAFTA/LA Pan African Film Festival Choice Award for the film I Sing of a Well.

Djansi's 2011 film Sinking Sands received 10 Africa Movie Academy Award nominations, with Ama K. Abebrese winning the Best Actress Award and Djansi earning the Best Original Screenplay Award.

2012

The film was also nominated for Outstanding Foreign Film at the 2012 Black Reel Awards.

Djansi's third directorial effort Ties That Bind received a Black Reel Awards Nomination in 2012.

The film also won the Best Diaspora Film at the 2012 San Diego Black Film Festival.

2016

Djansi's LIKE COTTON TWINES was an official selection to the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival under the World Fiction Section.

The film shot entirely on location in Ghana explores issues of modern-day slavery when an African American volunteer travels to a rural community in Ghana to teach and discovers one of his students, a 14-year-old girl has to become a religious slave.

Her other credits include Where Children Play with Grammy Winner Macy Gray, the UNiFEM advocacy film Sinking Sands, the LA Film Festival Best Episodic Television Show 40 and Single for AMC's Urban Movie Channel and All The Men in my Life starring Rochelle Aytes.

Leila Djansi has been recognized by various international organizations for continuously using her art to bring light to women's issues, and she has consistently made movies for women and about women while employing diversity behind and in front of the camera.

The veteran filmmaker is also lauded for revolutionizing Ghana’s film industry with “I Sing of Well,” a film that marked the onset of a unique narrative style never before seen in West African storytelling.

Her impactful work also inspired Ghanaian filmmakers in the diaspora to return, contributing to the telling of African stories.

Djansi continues to receive acclaim for using her art to narrate stories of black women, all while championing diversity both behind and in front of the camera.

In 2016, Djansi directed Like Cotton Twines, an exploration of the practice of Trokosi in her native Ghana.

The film was nominated for "Best World Fiction Film" at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

‘’Like Cotton Twines’’ also secured the Best Narrative Feature award at the 2016 Savannah Film Festival, clinching the same honor at the Riverbend Film Festival in 2017.

2018

Her other credits include Film Independent Best Episodic for 2018 40 and Single which was created for AMCs' Allblk