The Hollywood Reporter has published its selection of the next generation of under 35s TV business leaders in the world. Representing the top TV leader from Africa is Juliet Asante, 34, who won the Ghana film industry’s award for best actress in 2001. To ensure a long career, Asante knew she had to diversity.
To meet her objective, Asante became a director and producer and Eagle Productions, which she founded in 1999, is one of Ghana’s most prominent TV production companies.
Educated in Ghana, she writes and directs one of the nation’s most successful TV soap operas, Secrets, is a member of the World Economic Forum’s entertainment council and finds time to be editor of Entertainment Today Magazine. “I love to write in my free time and I love to read,” she says. “I love what I do. It doesn’t feel like work.”
