The Team | Filifili Studio

BISMARK ARYEE

BISMARK ARYEE holds a Bachelor's Degree in Film and Television Production from the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) and a Master's Degree in Communication from the Ghana Institute of Journalism.

He is a multipotentialite with credits in Graphics & Animation, Fiction & Non-Fiction films, Creative writing, Cinematography, Sound production and Production design for over a decade. Aryee has had the opportunity to work for a number of organizations including SuperSport, Channel O, USAid, Ghana Football Association, University of Ghana, Barclays, Absa, Standard Chartered, Aitel, MTN amongst others.

The structure of his post-graduate study afforded him the opportunity to study brand management and positive reputation building of brands through varied communication channels.

He is an award-winning filmmaker, having won Silver at The Los Angeles Documentary Festival, Best Short Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival (FESPACO) and Best Film at the Ghana Francophone Film Festival.

With his leadership qualities which got him elected as the SRC President of NAFTI, Bismark Aryee is the Creative Lead at FILIFILI Studios.

RICHARD MAWULI MORTSI

RICHARD MAWULI MORTSI holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film and Television Production from the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) and majored in Art Direction.

The accumulation of experience over the years made him direct few shorts films and documentaries during his attachments at Coastal Television where Geothe Institut gave him the opportunity to represent Ghana at one of the biggest documentary film festivals: IREP DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL AT LAGOS as a panelist with his documentary WHO IS RESPONSIBLE.

He’s had the opportunity of shooting Television Commercials for reputable companies like VODAFONE GH, SURFLINE and AIRTEL GH as well as products like THISWAY Cocoa Drink, NEAT FUFU, MAGGIE, ZWAN just to name a few as the 1st assistant director at Kofas Media.

Mawuli played a very key role as the assistant director for the movie AMAKYE AND DEDE which went on to win the BEST COMEDY MOVIE at the Ghana Movie Awards.

He has creatively directed a lot of productions for private entities and personal productions including UNICEF, GIZ and CDD which have gone a long way to affect society in a very positive way.

He is one of our creative directors and he has strategically used his experience to push our productions in the right step.

MAWULI AKPABI

MAWULI AKPABI is an experienced filmmaker with 10 years of active service in film and television production.

He has worked on projects including:

Movies

*Freetown (U.S.A) 2015 (Line Producer) *Children Of The Mountain 2016 (Associate Producer) *The Burial Of Kojo 2017 (Production Manager)

Short Films

*Hospitals 2013 (Producer) *Hand Of God (U.S.A) April 2017 (Producer)

Documentaries

*Interview of old cast member of 'Made in Chelsea' to Mark 100th Episode. (By Monkey Kingdom. U.K) - June 2015 (Fixer) *Church Of The Latter Day Saints(U.S.A) Interviews and documentaries August 2015/September 2016/December 2016 (Fixer) *Bitcoin Interview by Stateless Media (U.S.A) For TechCrunch August 2016 (Fixer) *Lonely Leap (U.S.A) Documentary for Google August 2016 (Fixer) *Lonely Leap (U.K) Documentary for CNN August 2016 *Documentary for Abraaj January 2017 (Fixer) *Collective Hunch (U.S.A)Documentary for Facebook (Free Basics) October 2016 (Fixer)

RICHARD KELLY DOE

RICHARD KELLY DOE holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film and Television Production from the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) and majored in Cinematography. His passion and work ethics earned him the opportunity to study at AFDA (South Africa) and ARCADA(Finland) to enhance his knowledge of the art and he is our Director of Photography.

Kelly Doe has worked as the Director of Photography for a number of award winning movies including Amakye & Dede, The traveller and Keteke. He has also shot for brands like Vodafone, Airtel, Surfline, Marie Stopes international, Beta Malt, Maggie, Exeter, Zwan etc.

His creativity has earned him a number of nominations at the Ghana Movie Awards and Golden Movie Awards.

PAAPA ODURO

BAMIE LAMMEH YESSEH

BAMIE LAMMEH YESSEH holds a Diploma in Film and Television production from Creative Land School of Film and media Arts and majored in Film and TV Directing.

From his technical background in electrical, carpentry and masonry; he ventured into all the technical aspects of production including, Gaffing, Grip, Camera, Sound and Art direction through learning from YouTube and learning on the job which has giving him over 8 years of experience.
He has had the opportunity to work as a Gaffer, Grip, Camera Assistant on Films such as Interception, The Burial Of Kojo, Black Rose, among others and worked on commercials and documentaries for brands such as Toyota Ghana, MTN Ghana, Airtel Ghana, Woodin, Ghacem, Green Solar Africa among others. He has also worked on loads of Music Videos as a Camera Operator, Ronin Operator, Gaffer, Art Director or Grip for Top Music video directors across Africa.
Ibam, as we call him, is our ‘all rounder’ and slots in perfectly at every role assigned.

CHARLES McCARTHY

CHARLES McCARTHY holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film and Television Production from the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) where he majored in Graphics and Animation.

McCarthy has had over seven years of experience in the Film and Television Industry working freelance as well as a number of organizations including MCC GROUP, ONESHOT STUDIOS and FIRST DIGITAL TV NETWORK. His background in Software Engineering, Web Development and Interface Design makes McCarthy a genius in Post Production.

Clients he has worked for include Airtel, Vodafone, Shell, Kaymu, Hubtel, Coral Paints, Uniliver, Standard Charted, Bank of Africa, just to mention a few. His creativity in adding life to every visual work of art earned him a nomination at the Ghana Movie Awards in the Visual Effects Category with the movie ‘14:32’.

Charles McCarthy is the Graphics and Visual Effects artist and supervisor at FILIFILI Studios.

Jonah Isaac

Benjamin Alpha

Benjamin Alpha Aidoo is a Communications, Media and Public Relations professional with recognition by the Ghana Journalist Association, Advertising Association of Ghana and the Institute of Public Relations having emerged as the winner of the maiden edition of the Newsroom Competition; a simulated Media and Public Relations com- petition organized by the three bodies for young communicators. Since graduating from the Ghana Institute of Journalism he has worked with mosaicblue communications, a full-service PR agency in Accra as a Public Relations Executive managing the corporate affairs portfolio of retainer and projects clients in the Maritime, Tourism, Manufacturing and Cocoa Processing Industries. He has also worked as communications lead for several capacity building and development-oriented projects including some with the UNFPA and Bloomberg Africa. He has considerable experience in managing corporate affairs in the private health portfolio having consulted for one of Accra's leading Medical Centres.

BISMARK ARYEE

RICHARD MAWULI MORTSI

MAWULI AKPABI

RICHARD KELLY DOE

PAAPA ODURO

BAMIE LAMMEH YESSEH

CHARLES McCARTHY

Jonah Isaac

Benjamin Alpha

Dorothy deGraft-Johnson ESQ.

The Team Behind The Ideas

BISMARK ARYEE

RICHARD MAWULI MORTSI

MAWULI AKPABI

RICHARD KELLY DOE

PAAPA ODURO

BAMIE LAMMEH YESSEH

CHARLES McCARTHY

Jonah Isaac

Benjamin Alpha

Dorothy deGraft-Johnson ESQ.