Rebekah A. Frimpong, MPH: Acknowledgment from African Youth Excellence

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Acknowledgment from African Youth Excellence

On August 8, Rebekah Frimpong received an AYE Award for her work in the Arts from African Youth Excellence organization. This award is a great accomplishment for Rebekah because it comes from her peers within the African community. The AYE Award also comes with a fellowship and Rebekah looks forward to working with AYE.

Filmmaker/Poet/Curator/Activist

Rebekah Frimpong is a filmmaker and poet who spends her spare time as a mentor to youth and as a community activist fighting for women's rights and global health issues. Rebekah's film work is mostly documentary but she does enjoy telling real stories on film both in narrative and documentary format. She started out as an theatrically trained actress and later became a film festival producer/curator in the Virginia and Washington, DC area. After hosting under her non-profit organization RWUL (Reelworldwide Underground Link), three successful film festivals, organizing over 20+ public film screenings, and teaching film workshops in Africa and the US, she is now embarking on a promising film career as a director and writer. Her most acclaimed and recent project Vanishing Seeds-Haiti was done in association with Trees for the Future in 2010. She is currently working on a feature documentary film called ADOWA that is fiscally sponsored by Dance Films Association and Fractured Atlas.

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