Volta -Invitational Film
Directed by: Ryan Mullins
Documentary | 2009 | 12m 38s
Canada/Ghana

www.solipsisproductions.com
The cinema has always been a place where you can go, if only for an evening, to escape your troubles… even in Africa. The Volta Cinema WAS such a place for the people of the small town of Hohoe and beyond. Nestled in the outskirts of rural Ghana, this crumbling art deco cinema was a mainstay of Chinese, South Asian and American films for over 45 years. Closed in 1997 after years of disrepair, the Volta cinema is now home to a mission school for children from the nearby Muslim community. Former projectionist Emmanuel Agboyame and others tell the story of this cinema and look back on the sense of community it brought out in everyone, every night at dusk.

Screening Times @ Victory Fire House with "Fambul Tok"
9:00PM Wednesday, June 15
7:00PM Friday, June 17

About the Director: Ryan Mullins has worked as a director, editor and cinematographer in the film and news industry for the past five years. His short film Volta, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and the South by Southwest film festival in the US. He has been awarded the Scholarship for InternationalDevelopment Journalism by the International Development Research Centre and nominated for the Bell Fundʼs ʻTen to Watchʼ in new media. He is currently co-directing a feature documentary about a Montreal-based theatre troupe with intellectual and developmental disabilities as they work tirelessly towards mounting an ambitious play.