With the Gold Coast Film Unit established and a new demand for African filmmakers and actors, the Colonial Film Unit decided to open a film school in Accra. Although this sounds like a dream for an aspiring film industry, the film school in Accra was actually designed to control the local film industry. For example instead of showing local people existing films and building on previous knowledge, the unit decided that Africans were too “primitive” and therefore, only basic filmmaking skills should be taught. Another negative aspect to the film unit was that it significantly used propaganda to justify British rule and civilization. In order to demonstrate European superiority, many of these films ridiculed and depicted African traditions as superstitions Although the Gold Coast Film Unit had various negative aspects, it also paved the way for the Ghanaian film industrv to expand. Therefore when Ghana gained its independence in 1957, Kwame Nkrumah (the new Ghanaian president) decided to build on the industry’s existing infrastructures and added production editing and distribution facilities. This would ultimately mark a new phase in the Ghanaian film industry.