LA Woman Rising
A love letter to the real women of Los Angeles. Narrated and executive produced by Rosario Dawson.
Writer / Director / Actor
NanaGhana.
Stories that live between worlds.
Stories of identity, memory, resistance and the lives we make between worlds.
Selected work
Behind the camera.
Films directed by Nana Ghana.
You Are Always Right Here
Written, directed, produced by and starring Nana Ghana.
Water Warrior
Nana Ghana’s directorial debut, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Electing
Recipient of Best Director at the Oregon Short Film Festival.
THE PAST
IS YET
TO COME
IS YET
TO COME
In development · Narrative feature
The Past Is
Yet to Come
After her father’s death, a young West African woman seeks spiritual guidance and is drawn across time into an uprising aboard an eighteenth-century slave ship. Guided by Eshu, the Yoruba deity of crossroads, she encounters the ancestral resistance and cultural memory that continue to shape the African diaspora.
A speculative historical drama inspired by Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno.
On screen
Acting.
Selected credits
- All’s Fair Television · Hulu
- White Rabbit Film · Sundance 2018
- Babylon Film
- What/If Television
- Mighty Oak Film
- Lost Transmissions Film
- Clowning Film
More about the work
Named an “One to Watch” talent by Entertainment Weekly and People for her performance in White Rabbit at Sundance 2018.
The filmmaker
Between worlds.
Nana Ghana is a Ghanaian-born, Los Angeles-based writer, director and actor whose work spans narrative film, documentary and television. Her stories explore identity, displacement, resilience, womanhood and belonging.
Her documentary feature LA Woman Rising received a theatrical release, and her filmmaking moves between intimate character studies and ambitious explorations of culture and memory.