[1][2] One of the most popular filmmakers in Sierra Leone cinema, Mansaray is best known for the critically acclaimed films Youth, Charity and Survivors.
He continued to work as a cinematographer in coming years in the films; They Resisted (2011) and Disability is Inability.
[7] Apart from them, he worked as the cinematographer in many award-winning international productions such as Decisions in 2011, Girl Rising in 2013, They Are We in 2014, and Meet the Africans: Many Rivers to Cross in 2013, where the latter won the Primetime Emmy Award.
[7] In 2014, he visited United Kingdom to meet some friends, however he was forced to extend his stay for five months due to Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
He was later nominated for the Emmy's Best Social Issue Documentary, where it became the first ever West African film to receive the accolade.