Leila Djansi

History

Leila Afua Djansi (born 1981) is an American and Ghanaian filmmaker who started her film career in the Ghana film industry.

Profile

Leila Djansi

Movies

Like Cotton Twines
Writer
An American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.
Like Cotton Twines
Director
An American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.
Where Children Play
Writer
A young woman is forced to nurse the father who abused her after her mother's death.
Where Children Play
Director
A young woman is forced to nurse the father who abused her after her mother's death.
37
Producer
A rocker makes a pact to kill himself on his 37th birthday. 12 weeks before the release of his final album and the end of his life, he meets and falls in love with a woman who has a dark secret of her own.
A Northern Affair
Screenplay
An arrogant and bitter doctor lets down his defenses and falls madly in love with his colleague in a dry and impoverished village, only for the past to come and disrupt the present
A Northern Affair
Director
An arrogant and bitter doctor lets down his defenses and falls madly in love with his colleague in a dry and impoverished village, only for the past to come and disrupt the present
And Then There Was You
Writer
Natalie resorts to picking up the pieces of her life after her husband leaves her for the family he has outside. she falls in love with Darrell, but he has secrets of his own. Can Natalie handle any more secrets?
And Then There Was You
Director
Natalie resorts to picking up the pieces of her life after her husband leaves her for the family he has outside. she falls in love with Darrell, but he has secrets of his own. Can Natalie handle any more secrets?
Ties That Bind
Writer
Adobea, Buki and Theresa are three women from different walks of life bound together by a similar pain; the loss of a child. In a destined meeting in a small village in Kroboland, the women journey together to redemption, love, life and forgiveness as they renovate a dilapidated clinic for the villagers.
Ties That Bind
Director
Adobea, Buki and Theresa are three women from different walks of life bound together by a similar pain; the loss of a child. In a destined meeting in a small village in Kroboland, the women journey together to redemption, love, life and forgiveness as they renovate a dilapidated clinic for the villagers.
Sinking Sands
Director
The story of a couple, Jimah and Pabi, whose marriage turns into violence and abuse when Jimah becomes disfigured in a domestic accident.
I Sing of a Well
Writer
A period drama set in the time of Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in the early 1300s, and against the backdrop of the intra-African slave trade. The prince of a small kingdom makes potentially fatal decisions by stealing a poor man's bride-to-be and by forming an alliance with Mansa Musa, whose intentions may serve his own interests, but not those of the prince and his people
I Sing of a Well
Director
A period drama set in the time of Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in the early 1300s, and against the backdrop of the intra-African slave trade. The prince of a small kingdom makes potentially fatal decisions by stealing a poor man's bride-to-be and by forming an alliance with Mansa Musa, whose intentions may serve his own interests, but not those of the prince and his people