Co-FounderSierra Leone Film Council
BRIEF PROFILE
ARTHUR V A PRATT is a Filmmaker and community leader based in Freetown, he is the current manger of the WeOwnTV Freetown Media Centre in Sierra Leone. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1976, Arthur developed a passion for the theatre and the movie screen way back in his school days. He spent several years on stage performances which earned him the best actor award in the TANGAINS CULTURAL FESTIVAL in Freetown in 2004. Arthur is a Co-Director with Banker White and Anna Fitch for his new film, documentary title SURVIVORS which is slated to air on PBS’s award winning series POV in 2018.
BIO
Arthur is a co-founder the WeOwnTV Freetown Media Center in Sierra Leone which serves as an hub for local production, media education and professional development. Arthur helped develop and acted in three of WeOwnTV-produced short films, CHARITY, BEND DOWN THE CORNER, AND THE CRIPPLE AND THE WITCH HUNTER, which were shown in the Madrid Film Festival in 2009/2010. Arthur’s interest then grew from a man displaying his talents in front of the camera to man working behind it. In 2010, he shot, and produced his first short film, BLACK SUGAR. Later in the same year, he wrote, directed and produced the widely acclaimed short film on the Tran- Atlantic slave trade, THEY RESISTED, which was screened in Clap Ivoir (Ivory Coast film festival). Arthur has also played the role of cinematographer and editor in films such as M’PORA, CRY OF THE COUNTRY VIRGIN, TEARS OF SISTER JULIET, WHY ME?, WINTER IN FREETOWN, and several documentaries which were aired on the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation Television (SLBC). At the beginning of the 2014 Ebola outbreak Arthur developed and directed a series of PSA’s and educational docudramas to spread lifesaving information to the people of West Africa. He is currently a director, and cinematographer of a new feature length documentary film about the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone titled, SURVIVORS.