American and Ghanaian filmmaker Leila Afua Djansi was born in 1981, and she began her filmmaking career in Ghana. The topic of female circumcision and early marriage told in the 2009 worldFest Platinum Award-winning film Grass between My Lips by Djansi is set in a hamlet in northern Ghana I Sing of a Well, her first film, was nominated for 11 African Movie Academy Awards in 2010. Three prizes were given to the movie: Best Sound, Best Costume, and the Jury Special Award for Best Film Overall. For the movie I Sing of a Well, Djansi received the BAFTA/LA Pan African Film Festival Choice Award in 2011. www.ghanacelebrations.com wishes you a wonderful birthday.
