George Amponsah

George Amponsah is a multiple award winning film maker who first started taking pictures in the 1990s as a photographer and Super 8mm film enthusiast. George was nominated by BAFTA in 2017 for his most recent feature length documentary- The Hard Stop which reveals the true story behind the UK riots of 2011 following the death of Mark Duggan who was shot and killed whilst being arrested in a 'hard stop' procedure by armed police. This incident ignited a riot that escalated into a week of the worst civil unrest in recent British history. In the UK George has worked with a number of established television production companies as a freelance producer/director making programs for all the major terrestrial broadcasters as well as many non -terrestrial. George is a graduate of The UK's prestigious National Film and Television School where he won a Post-Office Scholarship to attend the documentary directing course.