Veteran moviemaker Socrates Safo huffed and puffed on Live TV when the host of United Showbiz on UTV MzGee asked him if indeed he invited Yvonne Nelson for dinner as spelt out in her highly controversial memoir ‘I am not Yvonne Nelson.’
The filmmaker who is responsible for some of the vintage movies ever produced in the country put up an attitude and grossly failed to answer the simple question from MzGee but rather asked her to go and ask Yvonne Nelson to confirm if there was a dinner date between them.
He dragged the show as he got infuriated with the question. Eventually, he mentioned that he will also come out with a book to answer the question that was asked of him.
I Am Not Yvonne Nelson is an explosive and riveting account of a young woman who sets out to discover herself but finds out that she has been living with a false identity.
Except that the protagonist, an actor, is coping with a reality that causes her to occasionally sob into her pillow, this compelling story’s drama and plot twists have all the hallmarks of a spellbinding movie script. Unusual for an autobiography, the author confronts the audience in her undies.
The author’s life is extensively explored throughout the book, along with the good, terrible, and ugly aspects of both her own life and the fictional world of celebrities. It’s one of the biggest entertainment news from Ghana in recent times.
Safo started out as a filmmaker while working as a theatre cleaner. Initially, he was studying to become an auto mechanic. During this time, he shot the commercially successful 1992 picture Ghost Tears, which he also wrote and directed.
The film played a key role in developing the Ghanaian ghost cinema subgenre. Safo worked as the Film Producers Association of Ghana’s public relations representative.
He played a significant role in the 2011 VICE documentary The Sakawa Boys, which discussed Safo’s impact on the Ghanaian Sakawa movement. Between 1988 and the time the documentary was being filmed, Safo claims to have produced more than 100 movies.
Safo was named the NCC’s Director for Creative Arts in June 2017. He had previously served as the NCC’s executive secretary.
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