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March 15, 2011, – Sam Kessie has courageously put on the boxing gloves to a golden globes championship as the sole woman amongst giant men producing the documentary film “Zoom Zoom -The Professor”, covering the historical career & rise of a young man from the boisterously tough quaint fishing town of Bukom, located in Ghana’s capital of Accra. Azumah Nelson put African boxing on the map KO after KO & became an international superstar with an entire continent behind him, as he became the only African to be inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
In yet another black star move to be the first in setting their own standards & paving their own paths, Sam Kessie has been chosen to be part of National Geographic’s “2011 Women Hold Up The Sky Series” featuring films by trailblazing female filmmakers, making her the first Ghanaian filmmaker along with the first sports film to be featured at National Geographic. The “Women Hold Up The Sky” series is part of National Geographic’s All Roads Film Project, which is dedicated to providing a platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture storytellers around the world to showcase their works to promote knowledge , dialogue and understanding with a broader global audience. Zum Zum: The Career of Azumah Nelson, the educational title to the documentary will be screened on April 2, 2011 at the National Geographic Headquarters in Washington, DC, to educate the world about the life of Azumah Nelson beyond boxing.
Azumah Nelson holds his title of “The Professor” to heart, as he has made it his life’s mission to educate the children of the black star nation of Ghana, West Africa. The documentary project started as a piece to help bring awareness to the Azumah Nelson Foundation in conjunction with his children’s book to raise 23 million dollars(USD) to build an educational sports complex for underprivileged children in Akuse, Ghana.
According Sam Kessie:
“I hope this leads to distribution for him in the future, but this being for such an honorable non-profit cause, I hope it gets a chance to circulate around, hopefully in the festival circuit. I hope people who normally wouldn’t consider watching a boxing story of a young man from a little coastal African nation who believed his destiny was to become a King amongst Kings fulfilling his destiny beyond anyone’s expectations as he rose amongst the greatest, would get the opportunity to do so.”
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I RECENTLY HAD THE PLEASURE OF SPEAKING WITH MS.SAM KESSIE DURING THE AIRING OF THE VERTIKAL RADIO SHOW. THE TOPIC WAS “SUPPORT FOR OUR INDEPENDENT FILM MAKERS”. ON THE PANEL THAT NIGHT WERE ATLANTA’S PLAYWRITE TY MARTIN, ALSO PRODUCER/DIRECTOR ROYAL TATE, AND CREATOR AND FOUNDER OF THE VERTIKAL RADIO/MAGAZINE/FASHIONS & APPARRELS MR. NORMAN A. ANDERSON,(just to name a few) ALONG WITH MYSELF.SAM KESSIE TOOK TIME OUT FROM A VERY IMPORTANT PRODUCTION MEETING TO SPEAK WITH US ON THE TOPIC..BY THE TIME SHE FINISHED WE WERE IN COMPLETE AWE!! MIND YOU SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN GUEST TO SPEAK THAT NIGHT!! I WOULD RECOMMEND FULL SUPPORT OF HER ENDEAVORS..SHE IS TRULY A RISING STAR..IN A MANS WORLD!! LOG ON TO THE VERTIKAL RADIO INTERNET SHOW TO HEAR THIS PROFOUND WOMAN SPEAK. ON BEHALF OF THE VERTIKAL RADIO SHOW..I THANK YOU SAM KESSIE & I WISH YOU MONUMENTAL SUCCESS. 1