Mission statement

Local Brown Films (LBF), Flipside Entertainment (FE) and DRAFT Productions (DP), have fully developed, and intend to finance, produce, and distribute a sweeping international epic film entitled Bleeding Sunshine, and thereby manage the rights to Bleeding Sunshine, so that it is seen by mass market audiences on a global scale.

Ghana, where the film takes place, has been established over the past several years as a globally recognized emerging film market, with hundreds of films produced every year. The Ghanaian film industry has been affectionately named Ghallywood. Although there are many projects coming out of this market every year, the high demand for content has caused the quality of many of the films to suffer. LBF has assembled a team of the best technicians, and artists in Ghana and from abroad to produce a Hollywood-quality film, that will help establish Ghallywood as a legitimate film production market, ushering a new era in Ghanaian cinema.

The artistic mission of the project is to produce an original, visually arresting, and entertaining feature film, with a strong social commentary on the international epidemic of human trafficking, which plagues many African nations today. 

Genre - Action/Drama
Pitch -Taken meets BloodDiamond
Logline – An academically gifted Ghanaian school girl risks everything to save her destitute family, and finds herself ensnared in an international human trafficking ring that puts her on a collision course with her manifest destiny.

SWEETIE ADDO is a promising young academic hailing from a long line of fishermen in the quaint fishing hamlet of Prampram, Ghana. Charged with lifting her family out of poverty, she is on the eve of taking her entrance exams for University, when her father, CAPT. ADDO, is tragically lost at sea. She is forced to abandon her studies in order to find work to help support her struggling family. 

Her dark journey takes her from Ghana to Egypt, where she is transported by Bedouins through the depths of the Sinai corridor on camel-back, and ultimately sold to a brothel in the Middle East's most notorious red light district.....The nightmare continues as she is forced to sell herself in order to purchase her freedom back from her cold-hearted captor – brothel owner MADAM.

Sweetie’s only reprieve comes in the form of a friendship sparked with Madam’s young grandson MAZ and his brindle kitten TAF-TAF . She also befriends, albeit reluctantly, a lonely brothel patron, EYAL, who wants desperately to help her escape, but simply doesn’t have the wherewithal.

Numerous escape attempts prove fruitless. Sweetie is pushed to the breaking point when the 2 girls she was trafficked into the brothel with leave – one in a wooden box, and the other on the auction block. She is forced to plan and execute an escape on her own, before she faces a similar fate....Her life depends on it. 

Sweetie settles into a mundane waitressing job at the local polo club, where she meets 2 extraordinary gentlemen who make her an offer she cannot refuse....They impress her with their fancy car, Italian suits, and big talk of a modeling career in Milan. She is not initially sold on the idea of modeling....that is until they mention the opportunity for her to pursue her education for free in the West.

GOODY ADDO, Sweetie’s mother, is reluctant to let her daughter go abroad with these men, but is quietly swayed by a sizeable amount of money offered to her by their nefarious boss, AUNTY GEORGINA. Once Sweetie is removed from her mother’s home, and taken to Accra to await her passport, what began as any girl’s dream, quickly begins to unravel into a hellish nightmare. 

Yaa Boaa Aning (LBF) - Writer/Director
Yaa Boaa’s path to Hollywood was unconventional to say the least. Armed with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yaa Boaa headed back home to New York to begin a career in advertising. Quickly growing bored with the lack of creative expression in account management, she decided to try her hand at fashion show production with some of the most prominent houses in the world – Giorgio Armani, BCBG, Jeremy Scott, and Betsey Johnson to name just a few. Fashion show production lead to fashion styling, which lead to film costuming, which ultimately exposed her to the enduring art of filmmaking, working with such acclaimed directors as Michael Mann, Bill Condon and John Singleton. Never letting go of her passion for writing, between 2007 and 2010, Yaa Boaa completed her first 5 feature scripts. In 2009 she wrote and directed award winning short, The Prince of Venice.