Born in Accra, Ghana, Jesse Sunkwa-Mills is a filmmaker, animator, creative director and entrepreneur with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Graphic Design from the University of Education, Winneba. Jesse’s passion for animation, comics, games and design led him to found Mills Media in 2016, a full-service creative firm that offers services such as animation, illustration, graphic design, web and game development. Jesse is so passionate about the Ghanaian and African culture and is therefore on a mission to use animation, comics and games to project the African culture, while in the process providing creative digital solutions to individuals, and corporate institutions and also empowering young creatives. In 2019 Jesse and his company produced and launched the Asantewaa comic book which depicts the life of Asantewaa in a beautiful graphic representation, an Asantewaa game, two other mobile games based on the Ghanaian culture and several kids’ books subsequently. Under the Mills Media umbrella, Jesse has produced and directed several creative productions for individuals and top institutions both locally and internationally, including but not limited to, the recent release of the most talked about 3D animated film about the legendary Nana Yaa Asantewaa, which features Ghana’s award-winning actress Nana Ama Mcbrown in December 2022, which was a big cinema hit, selling over five cinema halls on the day of the premiere, the first of it’s kind for a local production premiere and also getting a lot of international attention. The movie was recently selected for the Annecy Film Festival for 2023 in France which happens to be the biggest animation film festival in the world.