Eddie on set at ASA student Film Shoot

I took Eddie along to a student film shoot conducted by a few Ghanaian friends of mine at the Academy of Screen Arts in East Legon, Accra. The film was directed by Danny Abotei and Collins Amlalo, whom I met in summer 2004 when they were assigned to do a documentary film about the student group I brought over from the States with the Experiment in International Living.
I gave Eddie my digital camera to document the film shoot. Danny and Collins talked to Eddie about their passion for film-- especially documentaries--and the importance of Africans documenting their own culture. I'm glad he got to see how a movie is made but I'm more pleased that he got to see that the things you see on T.V. and movies aren't neccesarily REAL. This is something kids here especially need to find out for themselves. The plot of the movie is basically that I am a detective who kills another man's wife and then frames him for the act. Of course, the wronged man comes back and beats me to a senseless pulp in the dirt. The wrronged man by the way is Ghanaian soap star. He drove us home later in his Mercedes Benz. The narative timeline is reversed so we see me getting beat up before we find out why. I got Eddie home a little later than I had promised Ma Elizabeth, but she told me the next morning that Eddie stayed up half the night telling stories about the actors and the cameras and fight scene and the make-up and the....