PROJECT DIRECTORS

Real Life Productions is a Non Profit Organization created in March 2006, in Accra (Ghana).

Its objectives are:

* To organize cultural and artistic events highlighting life art and culture in Africa and the African Diaspora.

* To foster positive interaction among members of Africa and the African Diaspora and showcase African art and culture within the Diaspora and to the international community through the sponsorships of educational and other events, production of films and other forms of publication…

* To encourage positive discourse on representations and documentation on issues of democracy, human rights, gender, historical and other social issue.

Lydie Diakhaté (France - Senegal)

Lydie Diakhate is an independent Producer Founder of K’a Yelema Productions in Paris, co-founder and co-director of the Real Life Documentary Festival in Accra. Her objective is to produce and disseminate African and African Diaspora films and other arts. She is also an art critic specializing in the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. She was the former editor for a French Government Publication on youth and education, and has written for different magazines and newspapers. As Public Relations, she has

worked for different cultural agencies and institutions.
She was trained at the GRETA des Arts et du Spectacle, in Paris (European Art Production); she received her diploma from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (Visual Anthropology Department) and her MA (Museum Studies), Art and Science department from New York University.

Dr. AWAM AMKPA (Nigeria)
Co-Director

Awam Amkpa Associate Professor of Drama. B.A., Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; M.A., Drama, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria; Ph.D. Drama, University of Bristol, England. Professor Amkpa was formerly Senior Lecturer of Drama and Television at King Alfred’s University College, Winchester, England and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Mount Holyoke College. He is currently an Associate Professor of Drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in New York, USA.

Author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires London: Routledge, 2003 and forthcoming books Postcolonial Drama, Oxford: Oxford University Press, and Picturing Homes and Border Crossings: Cinemas of the Black Atlantic. He is also a playwright, director and director of film documentaries. His film documentaries include Winds Against Our Souls, The Other Day We All Went to the Movies, National Images/Transnational Desires.