Shirikiana Aina Movies

  • 1993
    Sankofa

    Sankofa

    Sankofa

    61993HD

    On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral...

    Sankofa
  • 2016
    Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA

    Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA

    Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA

    02016HD

    Part of a multi-platform project highlighted by an hour long documentary about black filmmakers who worked and studied at UCLA between 1965 and the...

    Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
  • 1982
    Brick by Brick

    Brick by Brick

    Brick by Brick

    8.51982HD

    A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black...

    Brick by Brick
  • 2017
    Footprints of Pan-Africanism

    Footprints of Pan-Africanism

    Footprints of Pan-Africanism

    82017HD

    In 1957, Ghana was the first African country to become independent of its colonial rulers, in this case the British. Kwame Nkrumah, the first...

    Footprints of Pan-Africanism
  • 1997
    Through the Door of No Return

    Through the Door of No Return

    Through the Door of No Return

    01997HD

    In a personal quest, filmmaker Shirikiana Aina made this documentary capturing her efforts to learn more about her father, who died when she was a...

    Through the Door of No Return