Harmattan Productions Ltd.
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Harmattan Productions Ltd. is a newly formed London based Independent Film and Video Production Company, which specialises in documentary films. It has a commitment to making documentary films concerned with social action and justice across the world.
Placing a key emphasis on the role that culture plays and can be utilised as agents of social and economic change on the global sphere, Harmattan Productions are committed in documenting ethno-cultural and indigenous traditions around the world and aims to work with people who are passionate about diverse cultures and cross cultural values and communication.
We produce corporate and community video in arts and cultural promotion and business and with our background in making content for television, Harmattan Productions is able to bring a distinct creative approach to all projects.
Anita Abena Loshmanova
CEO/Documentary Filmmaker
CEO/Documentary Filmmaker
Anita Abena Loshmanova
Documentary Filmmaker, Harmattan Productions Ltd
Anita Abena Loshmanova is a documentary filmmaker based in the U.K and born in Ghana, West Africa. Having completed her early education in the historical city of Cape Coast in Ghana she moved to the U.K at the age of 12.
She went on to gain a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Video at the University College for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey where she directed her first short, Know Thyself for her graduation film.
Anita started her career in documentary filmmaking after working in retail to enable her to purchase her first digital camera, soon after which she was commissioned to produce a series on several festivals in Ghana for an African Caribbean satellite broadcaster in London. She has filmed, produced and directed documentaries on Panafest [Ghana], Festivals in Ghana, The International Roots Festival in Gambia, Zimbabwe International Film Festival and the work of Peace Corps in Gambia. Her work has also involved NGOs currently working in Africa and also engaged with programmes on Women and Child Rights issues.
She also produced and presented a film entertainment TV series programme that, featured independent filmmakers, shaping perspectives on African socio economic issues, culture and music, interviewing figures such as George Amponsah, Florence Ayisi and Owen Shahadah. She has also interviewed the musicians such as, Baaba Maal, Mayra Andrade and Tic Tac.
In a documentary film about the late Senegalese Filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, filmed during the 21st edition of FESPACO in Burkina Faso, Anita produced and directed Sembene’s Vision interviewing African Filmmakers, Film specialists and Actors including Abderrahmane Sissako, Manthia Diawara, Rahmatou Keita, Fatoumata Coulibaly, amongst many others.
She continues her passionate work in independent documentary filmmaking seeking to fill the gap of discontinuity that has been created as African descendants find themselves disconnected from their culture, identity and traditions as a result of historical and social interruption, through varied documentary film productions being produced through Harmattan Productions, which she has set up to make films that share in the vision for a better Africa.
Documentary Filmmaker, Harmattan Productions Ltd
Anita Abena Loshmanova is a documentary filmmaker based in the U.K and born in Ghana, West Africa. Having completed her early education in the historical city of Cape Coast in Ghana she moved to the U.K at the age of 12.
She went on to gain a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Video at the University College for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey where she directed her first short, Know Thyself for her graduation film.
Anita started her career in documentary filmmaking after working in retail to enable her to purchase her first digital camera, soon after which she was commissioned to produce a series on several festivals in Ghana for an African Caribbean satellite broadcaster in London. She has filmed, produced and directed documentaries on Panafest [Ghana], Festivals in Ghana, The International Roots Festival in Gambia, Zimbabwe International Film Festival and the work of Peace Corps in Gambia. Her work has also involved NGOs currently working in Africa and also engaged with programmes on Women and Child Rights issues.
She also produced and presented a film entertainment TV series programme that, featured independent filmmakers, shaping perspectives on African socio economic issues, culture and music, interviewing figures such as George Amponsah, Florence Ayisi and Owen Shahadah. She has also interviewed the musicians such as, Baaba Maal, Mayra Andrade and Tic Tac.
In a documentary film about the late Senegalese Filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, filmed during the 21st edition of FESPACO in Burkina Faso, Anita produced and directed Sembene’s Vision interviewing African Filmmakers, Film specialists and Actors including Abderrahmane Sissako, Manthia Diawara, Rahmatou Keita, Fatoumata Coulibaly, amongst many others.
She continues her passionate work in independent documentary filmmaking seeking to fill the gap of discontinuity that has been created as African descendants find themselves disconnected from their culture, identity and traditions as a result of historical and social interruption, through varied documentary film productions being produced through Harmattan Productions, which she has set up to make films that share in the vision for a better Africa.
FILMS IN PRODUCTION AND POST PRODUCTION
Sembene’s Vision
Sembene’s Vision is an observational documentary that uses the legacy of Ousmane Sembene as the window into the workings of the Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou [FESPACO], as the foremost African Film Festival that draws a wave of filmmakers from across the world, to Burkina Faso through its significant exhibition of films from filmmakers in Africa. Through interviews with African filmmakers from the continent and the Diaspora, Sembene’s Vision takes a look at the life of the Father of African Cinema and how filmmakers see the future of Film production in Africa in light of his demise
The Dyeing Art of African Textiles
Can you tell your Ewe Kente from the Asante’s counterpart? In the ultimate battle of the origin of ideas, The Dyeing Art of African Textiles embarks on an investigative journey to discover Africa’s rich history of textile making, in a story that encompasses history, cosmology, human labour and deep symbolism. Through a revelation of historical mythologies, African textiles come alive to tell us important things from the past.
A Funky Highlife Story
A Funky Highlife Story is a filmmaker’s quest to find out the origins of Ghana’s Highlife music from its beginnings to its current influence on urban music in Africa and Europe today. Having influenced musical styles such as Soukous, Mbalax and Afrobeat, Ghanaian Highlife music has disappeared from the world music arena while its counterparts have flourished among listeners worldwide Through interviews with pioneers of Highlife and contemporary artists, A Funky highlife Story seeks to put Ghanaian highlife music at the centre and at the source of African and world music.
Sembene’s Vision
Sembene’s Vision is an observational documentary that uses the legacy of Ousmane Sembene as the window into the workings of the Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou [FESPACO], as the foremost African Film Festival that draws a wave of filmmakers from across the world, to Burkina Faso through its significant exhibition of films from filmmakers in Africa. Through interviews with African filmmakers from the continent and the Diaspora, Sembene’s Vision takes a look at the life of the Father of African Cinema and how filmmakers see the future of Film production in Africa in light of his demise
The Dyeing Art of African Textiles
Can you tell your Ewe Kente from the Asante’s counterpart? In the ultimate battle of the origin of ideas, The Dyeing Art of African Textiles embarks on an investigative journey to discover Africa’s rich history of textile making, in a story that encompasses history, cosmology, human labour and deep symbolism. Through a revelation of historical mythologies, African textiles come alive to tell us important things from the past.
A Funky Highlife Story
A Funky Highlife Story is a filmmaker’s quest to find out the origins of Ghana’s Highlife music from its beginnings to its current influence on urban music in Africa and Europe today. Having influenced musical styles such as Soukous, Mbalax and Afrobeat, Ghanaian Highlife music has disappeared from the world music arena while its counterparts have flourished among listeners worldwide Through interviews with pioneers of Highlife and contemporary artists, A Funky highlife Story seeks to put Ghanaian highlife music at the centre and at the source of African and world music.
Harmattan Productions Ltd
UK Registered Company No. 06755359
Tel: UK +44 (0)7956 602 811
Ghana + 233 (0)541 425 856
Email: abbytu@yahoo.com
Website: www.harmattanproductions.co.uk
UK Registered Company No. 06755359
Tel: UK +44 (0)7956 602 811
Ghana + 233 (0)541 425 856
Email: abbytu@yahoo.com
Website: www.harmattanproductions.co.uk