Leila Djansi back again and this time, she is saying that the movie- A Northern Affair which she recently directed falls below her known standard—and she is blaming it all on the budget.
In fact, what baffles some of us is; didn’t she know about the budget of the movie before taking up the job? If you have a standard and you are keen on maintaining it, you have to go all out there to do so—including not taking up jobs which will throw you back because of the budget.
Anyway, Leila has launched a blog where she rants and dissects certain issues so as her latest, she has written a piece explaining how the low budget of ‘A Northern Affair’, made the movie fall below her standard of work.
And according to her, some people close to her even said the movie was not like her style of work when it came out…
I guess Leila Djansi has to give props to those film-makers who are able to make great movies despite the financial holdback.
Read excerpts from what Leila had to say about ‘A Northern Affair’ which features John Dumelo, Joselyn Dumas, Jon Germaine and others…
Interestingly, the movie won almost all the awards at the 2013 Ghana Movie Awards…
“I have come under a lot of fire from folks who have seen A Northern Affair. Even from my family. My sister Karin gave me a side glance and asked ‘Why doesn’t it look like anything else you’ve done”
Ama K Abebrese said. “Chic, I know you know this is far from your style of work”
Leila also wrote;
What you can achieve with 500,000, you cannot achieve with 50,000. Filmmaking is not magic. It is capital intensive. Making A Northern Affair was a struggle. I Sing of a Well was about the same budget, but the difference between I Sing of a Well and A Northern Affair was the script.
She continued;
“I love A Northern Affair. Let me get that fact out of the way. I am not necessarily proud of it, but it has soul and I love it. If I had a bigger budget, I’d have had a lot of fun going all the way. We had a lot of crew challenges especially in sound and continuity and that made things a little choppy. A lot of love went into the film. Our art department created a Manuel world so intimate and perfect, I never wanted to leave that set”.
Has she got a point?
because of people like leila djansi, i mostly wish there’s a remote control for human so that i can mute her the moment she starts whining / b!tching
LMAO she’s so full of her self mtchewww!!!! Leila get a seat please
Just tell GC to stop writing about her and you will never hear from her again. Jeanie, you are just a hater. She is full of herself how?
keep deleting my posts, I will continue posting
BB, tell Chris Vicent to stop visiting Leila Djansi’s blog and bringing you her write-ups from there. what about that? If Chris does not go to her blog, you will not hear about her. I remember she said she does not want to have anything to do with this website. Chris Vincent? why are you so obsessed with this girl? I have tried to so hard to understand what is wrong with what she said. you just want to keep talking about her so that people will insult her. Why didn’t you post that Hollywood studio is distributing her film? abi dat one be success story so una no fiit abi?
for crying out loud, leave her alone!
are you on her payroll?
BB, are u on GC’s payroll?
I have never posted on this site, but read it quiet a lot. You guys need to leave Leila alone. Unless you have been on Leila Djansi’s set, you will not understand what she is saying ok. I visited her set and its not childs play. She brings everything in from America. you should see equipment. you’ll marvel.
other producers don’t make films the right way so 50,000 is more than enuf for them But if you want to make movies the way they should be done, 50k is chicken change.
blah, blah, blah, blah…………..mtchewwwwww