Nicole Amarteifio

Nicole Amarteifio (born 1982) is a Ghanaian film director, producer, and screenwriter. Quotes To solve the problem, all you have to do is blow up the continent of Africa. Started to guide me into what I had to do. I had to make it so that other 12-year-old African girls sitting in Westchester would not be trapped in conversations where that sentiment is brought out. I always felt Ghana was home. From when I was a child, I knew I wanted to come back. it was the kind of food my mom was making or my grandmother telling us stories, I just knew that there was somewhere called home. Ghana was always a paradise. Ghana was home. Whenever I turned on the TV, or opened a newspaper, or turned on the radio, if Africa was mentioned, it was very negative. It was always a story of war, poverty or famine. “I said to myself, ‘That’s my answer. I’ll fight the single story of Africa by producing a show like “Sex and the City,” set in Accra.’” You’re African,Why are you majoring in AAAS? I have some really great memories, but I also remember really wrestling with my identity and my blackness. You can’t study at Brandeis and not get inspired by the fight for justice. I had been in development communications for about five years when I decided to look into programs that could help me hone that skill. I googled “development communication programs” or something with similar keywords and Georgetown’s Masters of Professional Studies in Public Relations/Corporate Communications was on the first page of results. I applied, was accepted and began classes a few months later. It was at Georgetown that I met Professor Mike Long and discovered we both had a passion for the creative world, for theatre and for television. When I told him that I wanted to create a show where Africa meets ‘Sex and the City’ but I had no idea how to go about it, he said to me: “step one: just write. When it comes to the TV industry, I teach myself by googling everything I don’t know. Maybe one day I’ll take a more formal course in TV production, but Google’s search engine has given me all the tools I have needed so far. External Links Nicole Amarteifio at the Internet Movie Database] Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century screenwriters Category:21st-century Ghanaian writers Category:21st-century Ghanaian women