Kwaw Paintsil Ansah (born 1941) is a Ghanaian film-maker, whose work as writer, director or producer includes Love Brewed in the African Pot in 1980 and Heritage Africa in 1989.

[1][2][3][4][5] His first feature, Love Brewed in the African Pot, earned immediate popular and critical acclaim throughout English-speaking Africa.

Despite all the awards and the success, it would be nearly 10 years before Ansah could complete his next major film project, the ambitious Heritage Africa (1989).

[7] He has expressed enormous gratitude for his success and development as a filmmaker to his father, who wanted him to engage in his own trade of photography.

He worked for two years as a Production Assistant and Set Designer for the Ghana Film Industry Corporation, and also made commercials for Lintas Advertising Agency in Accra.

It was an immediate popular success throughout English-speaking Africa, beating all previous attendance records for a film by an African director, while at the same time earning critical acclaim and respect.

[7] Despite all the awards and the success, it would be nearly ten years before Ansah could complete his next major film project, the ambitious Heritage Africa (1989).

[12] At the first NAFTI Film Lectures in 2011 on the Ghanaian Motion Picture Industry, Ansah was honoured for his immense contribution to cinema.

During that same event, he was also given the Osagyefo Lifetime Achievement Award by the Ghana Academy of Film and Television Arts (GAFTA).