Ghanaian
filmmaker of international repute Leila Djansi has threatened to go to court to
seek redress in an issue involving her and Distributors Guild of Ghana, a body
responsible for film distribution in Ghana.
The body has allegedly stopped its
member, Abdul Salam, producer and CEO of Venus Film, who....
is about to distribute Leila Djansi’s ‘Ties That Bind’, from releasing the film.
is about to distribute Leila Djansi’s ‘Ties That Bind’, from releasing the film.
Last week, the group allegedly cautioned
its members not to work with Leila, a mafia style move which is known by Film
Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG).
The group is fighting Leila Djansi because
of a certain comment she made about working with one of the members of the
group and her opinion about distribution in Ghana.
Leila allegedly lost a huge amount
of money to one of the guild’s members, and made a comment on it on
Facebook. For Leila, she was exercising her
constitutional right, the freedom to express herself against treatment being
meted out to her and her business through underhand tactics.
The group said Leila should render
an unqualified apology to them before they would allow her to distribute the
film through its channels. Leila told Peace FM’s Entertainment Review on Saturday that she had already
sold the film to Abdul Salam and had taken her money. Also, she said she could
have distributed the film via an independent channel ,but for the sake of Abdul Salam who
had already paid for the film, she had sent the group a written apology, which
copy NEWS-ONE has intercepted.
She added that they will seek
redress in a court of law if the distributors refused to allow Abdul to release
the film.Meanwhile, Leila said she didn’t
consider her comment on how she was treated by the group’s member and her views
on the entire system as an insult.
NEWS-ONE had published the comment
and review before and will repeat it sometime this week. The paper will also
publish the apology letter.
Credit: NEWS-ONE
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