George Amponsah is a renowned filmmaker, photographer, and Super 8mm film enthusiast who has been capturing images since the 1990s.
George Amponsah's feature film directorial debut, 'Gassed Up', was completed in 2023 and tells the story of a London youth who becomes entangled with a gang of moped thieves. The Guardian Newspaper praised 'Gassed Up' as a "Scorsese-like thrill ride", and the film received a UK nationwide cinema release in February 2024, as well as a release on the Amazon Prime streaming platform.
George Amponsah was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2021 for directing 'Black Power: A British Story of Resistance', a project that was executive produced by the Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen.
In 2017, George Amponsah won a BAFTA nomination for his feature-length documentary 'The Hard Stop', which explores the true story behind the UK riots of 2011, following the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot and killed during a "hard stop" procedure by armed police. This incident sparked a week of civil unrest that is considered the worst in recent British history.
Throughout his career, George Amponsah has worked as a freelance producer and director with various television production companies in the UK, creating programs for major terrestrial and non-terrestrial broadcasters.
George Amponsah is a graduate of the prestigious National Film and Television School, where he won a Post-Office Scholarship to attend the documentary directing course.
