Savannah Acquah

Savannah is a British/Ghanaian filmmaker, writer and actor from London.

Savannah’s first short film, Dzifa, screened at Oscar, BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying festivals and events in the UK, LA and in Ghana. In 2025, she was commissioned to direct four poetry short films for WritersMosaic and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. That year, she also performed her play Small Revolutions as part of Talawa Firsts, directed by Kwame Owusu and completed the Royal Court’s Introduction to Playwriting group.

Savannah’s theatre work has been performed at the Royal Exchange, HOME Manchester, Contact and at the Edinburgh Fringe. In 2022, she was the Royal Exchange’s Hodgkiss Director, directing for their studio space and assistant directing their production of Let The Right One In. Her writing has been longlisted for the Mustapha Matura Award (2024), the National Theatre New Views competition (2017) and reached the Top 100 for Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award (2020).

Having performed for screen and stage, Savannah’s acting credits include work for the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky.

Savannah is currently in post-production for another series of six poetry short films. She also completed post-production on a film for the charity, Switchback, as well as her first documentary short and is currently in pre-production for further projects.