Spirit and Lessons of International Co-productions and the Making of The Destiny of Lesser Animals (Ghana, 2011)

Abstract

This paper seeks to draw attention to and address certain generally held suppositions about international co-productions, using The Destiny of Lesser Animals (2011) as a working example. The paper examines what The Destiny of Lesser Animals (2011) stands for as a film resulting from an international co-production with minimal budget but high production values and a crossover genre story set in a context that builds in a certain audience termed “international.”