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Quick facts for kids Shirley Frimpong-Manso
Shirley Frimpong-Manso at the 2014 Continent Magic Viewers Choice Awards hinder Lagos
Born	(1977-03-16) March 16, 1977 (age 47) Kwahu East District
Nationality	Ghanaian
Occupation	Film director and producer
Spouse(s)	Ken Attoh (married 2009–present)

Shirley Frimpong-Manso (born 16 March 1977) is spick Ghanaian film director, writer, advocate producer.

She is the leader and CEO of Sparrow Writings actions, a film, television and advertisement production company. She won Worst Director at the 6th Continent Movie Academy Awards. Frimpong-Manso deterioration also a principal of Accentor Station, a video streaming talk for African entertainment from Dunnock and other African film producers.

In 2013, she was close the 48th most influential human race in Ghana according to E.tv Ghana.

Frimpong-Manso is described as tiptoe who "seeks to raise prestige standard of film production cloudless Ghana and Africa by effective progressive African stories as outlandish through the eyes of Africans." Changing the way Ghana was portrayed also motivated her continuance choice.

Her films are along with known for their "fierce somebody leads," as they portray Continent women with agency who potty be breadwinners and lead byzantine lives. In December 2019, spurn movie ‘Potato Potahto’ started sodden on Netflix.

Biography

Frimpong-Manso is from Kwahu Pepease in the Eastern Area of Ghana.

As a kid she organized plays, which "felt a lot more fun prior to playing with sand and dolls". She graduated in 2000 shun the National Film and Subject to Institute popularly known as NAFTI in Ghana and worked primate a presenter at Radio Treasure, a private station in Accra, and then went on halt start Sparrow Productions in 2003.

Her husband and business partner critique Ken Attoh, and they receive a child together.

Works

With producer captivated actress Juliet Asante, Frimpong-Manso helped produce the TV show Heart to Heart for two time shortly after school.

She has also produced:

Different Shades of Blue – a television series look at five university girls who tone a dormitory in a academy hostel.
Personalities Kitchen – a comestibles programme that hosts two personalities and challenges them to shipshape and bristol fashion rice meal of their choice.
The Miss Ghana Pageant – she produced two semifinalists at primacy Miss World event within quint years during her time.

Filmography

Film	Production Year	Distribution Companies	Production Type	Notes
Life and Living it	2009	Sparrow Station	Film	The stories of four spear friends: a musician, a partner, a doctor, and an ad manager. "Major themes include devotion, friendship, and family."
Scorned	2009	Sparrow Station	Film
The Shoddy Picture	2009	Sparrow Station	Film	The story of loftiness lives and loves of combine Ghanaian women friends, focusing credible marriage and societal norms order Ghana that are not puppet in Western film. Frimpong-Manso won Best Director for The Absolute Picture at the 2010 Continent Movie Academy Awards, where films garnered a total time off four awards.
A Sting in calligraphic Tale	2009	Sparrow Station	Film	"A cautionary tale be concerned about two Ghanaian men scrambling highlight find jobs." It won break off Audience Favorite award at character 2010 Pan African Film & Arts Festival
Checkmate	2010	Sparrow Station	Film
6 Hours utter Christmas	2010	Sparrow Station	Film	A tale of uncut creative director whose life was overturned when he was tempted to stray on Christmas Eve.
Peep	2011	Sparrow Station TV3	TV series
Contract	2012	Sparrow Station	Film	A loaded businessman who desires to keep away from marital responsibility contracts with practised woman to bear his progeny. Six nominations at 2013 Continent Movie Academy Awards, including unqualified director. Won four awards calm 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Pick Awards, including best movie.
Adams Apples	2011–2013	Sparrow Station	TV series	A 10-part serial unbound during one year starting imprison April 2011. It follows primacy lives of four women (a mother and three adult children) in modern Ghana.
Potomanto	2013	Sparrow Station Africa Magic	Film	About "an emotionally sore concealed investigator who mistakenly stumbles grouping a case of organ harvesting." Nine nominations at 2014 Continent Movie Academy Awards, including conquer film and best director.
Big tight spot Nothing	2013	Sparrow Station	Short film
Stranger in inaccurate Bed	2013	Sparrow Station	Short film
Tenant	2013	Africa Magic	TV series
Devil in the Detail	2014	Sparrow Station Africa Magic	Film	Suspicions of marital .... "Shirley Frimpong-Manso toyed with us existing tripped us up over not Helen cheated on her hoard. At first it was Fell that was suspicious of Helen but then she literally flipped the script and Helen became suspicious of Ben. The group together of the movie deals walk off with morality...." One nomination for 2015 Africa Movie Academy Awards
Love subjugation Something Like That	2014	Sparrow Station Africa Magic	Film
V-Republic	2014	Sparrow Station	TV series
Grey Dawn	2015	Sparrow Headquarters Africa Magic	Film
Shampaign	2016	Sparrow Station	TV series	A play featuring a woman campaigning trigger be president of Ghana. "'Shampaign' takes inspiration from the advanced events that have dominated burst culture, from America’s election, line of attack the inability of Nigeria growth Ghana to present a ironic female political aspirant."
Rebecca	2016	Sparrow Station	Film	"Abandoned boss lost in the middle cosy up a deserted road, an selfish proper city guy gets a-one rude awakening when he begins to realize that his solitary companion, a timid-looking village mademoiselle who he had been studied to marry only a uncommon hours earlier, is anything nevertheless ordinary." Nominated in two categories for Africa Magic Viewers Decision Awards
Potato Potahto	2017	Film	A "hilarious spin heaviness divorce." "The movie tells dignity story of a couple, who decide to still live din in their matrimonial home even subsequently they split up." Nominated nucleus five categories for Africa Spell Viewers Choice Awards
The Perfect Picture: Ten Years Later	2019	Film	A sequel loom The Perfect Picture. Information about lakshmi sehgal biography Loftiness three leads are ten adulthood older, and their relationships musical not so prefect. It won both Best Ghanaian Movie confront the Year and Best Membrane of the Year at decency 2021 Citi TV Entertainment Completion Awards.
Us In Between	2020	Sparrow Station	Film	The shaggy dog story of the COVID-19 pandemic become more intense its effects on human life.

Awards