# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kwaw-ansah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:10:08.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kwaw-ansah"
name: "Kwaw Ansah"
slug: "kwaw-ansah"
description: "Kwaw Paintsil Ansah is a Ghanaian film-maker, whose work as writer, director or producer includes Love Brewed in the African Pot in 1980 and Heritage Africa in 1989. His first feature, Love Brewed in the African Pot, earned immediate popular and critical acclaim throughout English-speaking Africa. Despite all the awards and the success, it would be nearly 10 years before Ansah could complete his next major film project, the ambitious Heritage Africa (1989). Yet again, the film was widely acclaimed and awarded. Since then, Ansah has produced other films, including Harvest at 17 (1994), Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade (1994) and The Golden Stool, the Soul of the Asantes (2000). Ansah is a crusader for African filmmaking and dramatic art, working ceaselessly for improved funding and distribution of African films within Africa. He has been chairman of FEPACI and a leader in the direction of FESPACO. In 1998, Ansah was awarded the Acrag Prize, the Living Legend Award for Contribution to the Arts of Ghana."
tagline: "Ghanaian film maker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kwaw_Ansah.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.43
  momentum:             3.999999999999999
  historical:           8.809756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0030503/"
    handle:    "nm0030503"
sources:
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    title: "Kwaw Ansah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كواو أنساه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كواو انساه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kwaw Ansah"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaw_Ansah"
    title: "Kwaw Ansah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaw_Ansah"
    title: "Kwaw Ansah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaw_Ansah"
    title: "Kwaw Ansah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaw_Ansah"
    title: "Kwaw Ansah"
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  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaw_Ansah"
    title: "Kwaw Ansah"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaw_Ansah"
    title: "Kwaw Ansah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13847975"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1323284"
    title: "Kwaw Ansah"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump