Vigil for Middleton-Mends
Dubbed ‘Remembering Mends, ’ the 6.00p.m. vigil at the forecourt of NAFTI Studio One will comprise poetry readings, musical performances, tributes, a documentary on him and excerpts from films he directed or acted in.
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“He was a jolly good fellow who got along very well with his students, other teaching staff and all the people who came his way in the course of work,” said Mr Kwabena Aboagye, an old student of NAFTI and lecturer at the school.
The late Middleton-Mends studied Theatre Arts at the University of Ghana, Legon. He then joined the defunct Ghana Film Industry Corporation (GFIC) before going to the Film and Television Institute of India to study film directing.
He acted in several stage plays, commercials, television series and feature films and directed documentaries and features for GFIC. The gifted man later became a lecturer at the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI).
Many remember his roles in the famous ‘No Tears For Ananse’ and Shirley Frimpong Manso’s ‘Grey Dawn’.
In a tribute soon after his death, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare, described him as a great man and an industry player.
She said his death was a loss to the whole country.
He will be buried at the Osu cemetery in Accra on Saturday, October 1 after a burial service at the forecourt of the State House in Accra.
