APOKA-Pictures
"Necessity is often the spur to genius." - Honore de Balzac
"We gon' work you like a slave today!": these were the words the manager at my last job barked at me during brunch time, on the 17th of July 2012. My name is Joseph Osei-Bonsu and what you're reading is the genesis of my vision - APOKA PICTURES. I had been serving as a sales associate for a well-known, retail company in the USA, for well over 13 months. And even though the pay, working conditions, benefits and leadership style treated the workers like slaves, no one ever thought of it as slavery nor dared to call any of us(associates) a slave...until that fateful day.
Two weeks earlier, thus the 4th of July 2012, I put in my resignation notice and prepared to leave the source of my livelihood for good; without any assurance of success in my rediscovered passion - storytelling. But as the final day of working at the retail store drew nigh, I began to second-guess my decision to quit my job. As a matter of fact, it was in that moment of rethinking my quitting decision that my manager walked up to me, bellowed some nonsensical instructions at me, and concluded his orders with those infamous words, "Come on Joseph! We gon' work you like a slave today!". The moment I heard those words, the internal conflict that had erstwhile been raging in my mind ceased. I decided in that very moment that I was better at telling stories creatively, than selling pipe-fittings. So I quit my job. I was very much aware that I had forsaken the source and certainty of food, shelter, water and the basic amenities of life by quitting my job; in order to embrace the harsh reality and possibility of failure, starvation, homelessness, poverty and lack, for the sake of a dream! Yet, I knew that for the first time in a long time, I was truly free; and that this freedom couldn't have come any other way.
My story conveys one basic, life principle:
1. Whom you serve, determines the nature of your service.
And upon this principle, APOKA PICTURES was founded and established. At APOKA PICTURES, we believe that all human beings have an innate authority - the intrinsic gifting(s) that makes each of us unique in our own way - that is needed by the world. And we owe it to each other to express our unique abilities in love; for the benefit of one another. Yet, not a day goes by without the burial of an unexpressed, unique gifting; because the culture of today's world does not allow anybody to prosper in his or her own authority. This is especially so in the Arts and Entertainment world, where exclusivity is the unwritten law. Opportunities are reserved for a select - mostly irresponsible - few; while the majority of the world's artists and entertainers languish away in rejection, seclusion or oppression. Hence, APOKA PICTURES Inc. was created:
Firstly, as a spring for the rejected and oppressed people, who are thirsty for an opportunity to express their creative authority, in the desert field of the Arts & Entertainment world.
And secondly, to tell creative and entertaining stories that reveal ('apokalýptoun') timeless principles and absolute truth; in order to restore ('apokatástasi') 'Proper Culture' and the right use of the storytelling tool - the Arts & Entertainment Industry.
Two weeks earlier, thus the 4th of July 2012, I put in my resignation notice and prepared to leave the source of my livelihood for good; without any assurance of success in my rediscovered passion - storytelling. But as the final day of working at the retail store drew nigh, I began to second-guess my decision to quit my job. As a matter of fact, it was in that moment of rethinking my quitting decision that my manager walked up to me, bellowed some nonsensical instructions at me, and concluded his orders with those infamous words, "Come on Joseph! We gon' work you like a slave today!". The moment I heard those words, the internal conflict that had erstwhile been raging in my mind ceased. I decided in that very moment that I was better at telling stories creatively, than selling pipe-fittings. So I quit my job. I was very much aware that I had forsaken the source and certainty of food, shelter, water and the basic amenities of life by quitting my job; in order to embrace the harsh reality and possibility of failure, starvation, homelessness, poverty and lack, for the sake of a dream! Yet, I knew that for the first time in a long time, I was truly free; and that this freedom couldn't have come any other way.
My story conveys one basic, life principle:
1. Whom you serve, determines the nature of your service.
And upon this principle, APOKA PICTURES was founded and established. At APOKA PICTURES, we believe that all human beings have an innate authority - the intrinsic gifting(s) that makes each of us unique in our own way - that is needed by the world. And we owe it to each other to express our unique abilities in love; for the benefit of one another. Yet, not a day goes by without the burial of an unexpressed, unique gifting; because the culture of today's world does not allow anybody to prosper in his or her own authority. This is especially so in the Arts and Entertainment world, where exclusivity is the unwritten law. Opportunities are reserved for a select - mostly irresponsible - few; while the majority of the world's artists and entertainers languish away in rejection, seclusion or oppression. Hence, APOKA PICTURES Inc. was created:
Firstly, as a spring for the rejected and oppressed people, who are thirsty for an opportunity to express their creative authority, in the desert field of the Arts & Entertainment world.
And secondly, to tell creative and entertaining stories that reveal ('apokalýptoun') timeless principles and absolute truth; in order to restore ('apokatástasi') 'Proper Culture' and the right use of the storytelling tool - the Arts & Entertainment Industry.