"But it wasn't a given Bowers would compose the score for Proudfoot's feature debut, " The Eyes of Ghana." "Because it's a lot of work, right? It's like, 'OK, it's six months of my life,' Proudfoot told IndieWire during an interview at the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival. "When you decide, 'OK, this project feels like it's part of my body of work,' it's a big decision, one that I take seriously."
"the whole van of us, the crew, we're driving down this main thoroughfare, and I saw this unusually shaped building and a statue of a man pointing. And I said, 'What's that?' They said, 'Oh, that's the mausoleum for Kwame Nkrumah.' And I said, 'Who's Kwame Nkrumah?' Every Ghanaian in the vehicle turned around and looked at me like 'What the hell?,"
Ben Proudfoot and composer Kris Bowers previously won a Best Documentary Short Oscar for The Last Repair Shop. Bowers weighed the significant time investment before agreeing to score Proudfoot's feature debut, The Eyes of Ghana. Bowers has worked on projects including Green Book, Bridgerton, and The Wild Robot and co-directed the Oscar-nominated short A Concerto Is a Conversation. The Eyes of Ghana follows Ghanaian filmmaker Chris Hesse and his reels documenting Kwame Nkrumah. Hesse smuggled the footage to a London vault to protect it when colonizers tried to destroy records. Proudfoot encountered surprising Ghanaian history while filming for UNICEF during the pandemic.
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