Two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot returned to his native Canada last week to debut his latest documentary, “ The Eyes of Ghana ,” a powerful feature about the African country’s buried cinema history and the 93-year-old filmmaker who has dedicated his life to restoring it.

That filmmaker, Chris Hesse, was the personal cinematographer to Kwame Nkrumah, the African revolutionary who became the first president of Ghana. Thus, Hesse had a front row seat to the dawn of African independence from colonialist rule and he captured it all on film — including Nkrumah’s rise and fall, as the politician was eventually overthrown by a coup. Much of that footage was ordered to be destroyed amid the political turmoil but the negatives were preserved in a secret archive in London. In the decades sinc

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