He is often credited as the director of the first Ghanaian feature film, No Tears for Ananse.
[3] Sam Aryeetey was born August 23, 1929, in Accra.
[1] Among the first students at an Accra film training school for West Africans established by the Colonial Film Unit in 1948, Sam Aryeetey joined the new Gold Coast Film Unit under Sean Graham.
[6] No Tears for Ananse, written and directed by Aryeetey, was the first GFIC production.
Manthia Diawara has argued that, by choosing to employ Europeans rather than Africans to “make films for Ghana”.