Commended by U.S. President Barack Obama as “a courageous journalist…who risked his life to report the truth”, the story of famed African investigative reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas is uncovered in the Canadian documentary Chameleon.
Chameleon has embarked on a festival run that included Hot Docs, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Brooklyn Film Festival, the documentary from award-winning director Ryan Mullins (The Frog Princes, Volta), who took home the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs.
Anas has been called the James Bond of Ghanaian journalism, exposing a sex-trafficking ring by masquerading as a bartender, uncovering deplorable conditions in Accra’s psychiatric hospital, and posing as a crown prince in order to bypass a rebel checkpoint. His unorthodox methods are infamous throughout Ghana, but despite his notoriety his face is unknown to the public. Chameleon takes audiences behind the scenes of the Anas’ Tiger Eye Investigations Bureau, hot on the heels of his next big case.
Chameleon makes its world broadcast premiere on Monday, January 11th at 9pm on HBO Canada.
