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Nicholas Weinstock The first time I went to Ghana, I was 19 years old and volunteering to build a health clinic in a rural village. It was the early ‘90s, I was a teenaged lunatic, and everything bad that could have happened to me did: I got malaria; I was beaten up by soldiers on the border with the Ivory Coast — but I also encountered wonderful people and stunning and moving and unforgettable experiences and friendships.
All told, I had the time of my life, and vowed to spend as much time as I could on the African continent, and I have ever since. A few weeks ago, I was back in Ghana (now as a middle-aged man, no backpack, no youthful bravado) for a very different reason: to join other producers at a historic pan-African summit devoted to the elevation of the film and television industries across the continent.
And the talent, entrepreneurial intelligence, and sheer creativity on display came as a welcome injection of hope at a time when those of us based in Hollywood could use it. As we all take our holiday break and look toward 2024, many of us working in the entertainment hub of Los Angeles are — to say the least — shaken.
Limping out of the pandemic and labor strikes and cost-cutting and mergers, Hollywood is struggling for the gumption to do anything cool; or, really, to do just about anything. Buyers seem to be only warily open for new business, and strictly according to company “mandates” conveyed by apologetic executives who are understandably fearful for their jobs.
What’s been lost in this town-wide shakedown is the electric sense of possibility, of excitement about daring projects, and a desire for creative innovation that, for many of us, is the reason we have these jobs in the first place. The irony is
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