Ghana / Ukraine

Arthur studied in the graduate Film Production program at the University of Southern California’s School Of Cinematic Arts, where he was an Annenberg Fellow. Prior to that he obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and worked for 4 years in the semiconductor industry. Born in his mother’s Ukraine, raised in his father’s Ghana, and now living in the United States, Arthur explores characters defined by multiple worlds. He has produced, written, directed and edited fiction and documentary shorts currently playing at film festivals across the world. Some of these include What To Bring To America (Producer), Refuge (Writer/Director), and Color Blind (Editor). His feature documentary Naija Beta, premiered in 2016 at the Pan African International Film Festival in Cannes, and won Best Documentary Feature at the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival in Atlanta and an Achievement in Documentary Film Award at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival. Naija Beta also screened at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where it won Best Documentary Short Film at the Roxbury International Film Festival. Inspired by his own experience of coming from West Africa to study at MIT, his film One Day I Too Go Fly is Arthur’s effort to capture the magical and tumultuous years when a young person wanders into a foreign land to quench a big thirst for knowledge. He currently lives in Boston where he is lucky to be able to combine his passion for engineering in his day job, with his love for filmmaking. Biography Source

Filmography

Niaja Beta (2016)