Nana Antwi Owusu-Ansah is a Ghanaian filmmaker, producer, and sustainability professional based in Paris, France. With over six years of international experience working across global institutions including Nestlé, General Mills’ PFS, and Pernod Ricard, Nana has built a career defined by one consistent conviction: that the most complex human challenges — whether in supply chains or in society — demand both rigour and empathy to solve.
6 Hours 2 Paris marks Nana's debut as a film director and producer, and the founding of The Hassan Cole & Company, a Paris-based production company committed to African storytelling on the world stage. The film was born from a deeply personal belief that Africa's journey toward unity, peace, and development cannot be separated from its willingness to practise tolerance, love, and acceptance — values that are African in their deepest roots, even when society insists otherwise.
Nana's vision for The Hassan Cole & Company extends well beyond a single film. Rooted in the richness and complexity of life across the African continent — not only Ghana — the company exists to illuminate the stories that society ignores, to hold a mirror to the Africa that rarely makes international headlines: vibrant, contradictory, tender, and urgent. Each project will engage a social issue that deserves more light than it receives.
Educated across five countries — Ivory Coast, Ghana, Malaysia, Russia, and France — and fluent in English, Russian, Akan and French, Nana brings a genuinely pan-African and international perspective to his work. He is a member of One Young World's Swiss National Board, a Rotary International member, and an Executive Director of Foundation for Educational Equity & Development (Libraries Without Walls), an organisation dedicated to expanding access to knowledge and culture across Ghana.
Nana Antwi Owusu-Ansah makes films because he believes stories are the most honest form of advocacy. And Africa, in all its fullness, deserves to be advocated for.