Emerging British-Ghanaian writer and filmmaker Aminah Alhamdu is the recipient of the fourth Offset Projects and MK Community Foundation arts bursary.
Milton Keynes-based Aminah is dedicated to telling diverse stories that balance spectacle with sentiment, and centre on complex, flawed and unconventional female characters.
Last year she delivered her first independent project, Vignettes, and later directed her first narrative short, Backwoods, supported by the BFI Short Cut Film Fund. Aminah has also participated in prestigious programmes such as Film London Connect and The Network at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Her passion for visual arts and storytelling inspired her to study media at university, where her final project – a feature-length adaptation of the classic play Volpone – won an academic prize for ‘the best overall project in a media programme’.
Aminah plans to use the bursary for research and development, exploring unscripted media; and playwriting inspired by the folklore and history of ancient cities.
"This is a great opportunity to experiment with mediums that I haven’t been able to explore in-depth," Aminah said, "I’m excited to see where the process takes me and to share my work with other storytellers.”
