'The Eyes of Ghana' produced by Obamas screens in Oakland

New at 11, dozens of people packed in Oakland Theater tonight to catch the latest film produced by the Obama's film company. Eyes of Ghana is a documentary with former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama listed as executive producers through their company, Higher Ground. That movie is playing a three-night run at the Regal Jack London Cinema. And it follows Chris Hesse, who was the personal cameraman to Ghana's revolutionary first president, Kwame Nkrumah. And as the now 90-year-old Hesse releases more than a thousand preserved reels recorded during Ghana's liberation revolution. The coup that ousted Khrushchev and so a lot of things were burned and destroyed and so his films were safely secured in London and so this story is about the restoration of those films and the restoration of that story and the retelling of that story. I'm grateful to have known that this, that it existed, that it was in our community and that it's only been shown for a short period of time and I'm hoping that it will be extended. Now, there is still one more showing at the Regal Jack London that is scheduled for tomorrow at 7 p.m.