VAN VICKER ON A MISSION TO MERGE LOCAL & ENGLISH FILM MAKERS IN GHANA

The bane of language barrier remains the challenge facing come movie producers.

Love for African Movies is now global so restricting some movies to local languages without finding a way to make it appeal to the mass fan base available is rather retrogressive. As such Van Vicker is trying to sole-handedly change that phenomenon by producing movies that have both English and local language actors collaborating together:

“Don’t forget I have shot my 4th film with Agya Koo who’s also a local movie actor and that time, I made that decision because I wanted to tell that movie story in a best way and I had no other person in mind than Agya Koo. I finally picked Agya Koo for that role in my movie ‘Johnny Walker’ because I was trying to break the notion that the English speaking actors don’t want to shoot with the local language speaking actors.”

He said that he just directed a local production job in Ghana and then went to Tanzania for a shoot. After that, he will start directing his 8th movie titled ‘The Fort’ which will be the 6th movie he has produced and directed.

According to Van Vicker, his involvement with local Ghanaian actors has nothing to do with the perception that local language movie industry is now more lucrative than the English and that he is just going there to rake in some revenue. He says his motive is to bring about unity between these two groups of actors.