Ghanaian film producer Shirley Frimpong Manso has stated that she refuses every offer to watch pirated contents on any platform.

According to her, she understands how much it hurts film producers to invest money into film production as well as the emotional toll that accompanies the process.

“I want to kill all of them. I have a personal concern and I do not watch pirated stuff, I don’t care. People have said, oh, have you seen it? I said no. They said, oh, use this link and you can watch it. I never do because I know how much it hurts to spend,” she said on Hitz FM.

The film producer highlighted that many people don't fully understand or appreciate the behind-the-scenes sacrifices and heavy investment that go into making a film.

Adding that it is not just about shooting a scene, but entails a complex and costly process.

“Movie making is excruciating - the money - having to have 30, 40 plus people on set every day feeding them, it’s a lot. I don’t think people could have wrapped their head around the fact that even a 5 or a 10 day production, the people on set, we are feeding them, you’re buying breakfast, lunch, and dinner sometimes. It’s a whole thing, the investment, the emotional, the money aspect of it and stuff,” she said.

To this end, Shirley Frimpong Manso expresses frustration towards dilly-dallying efforts by authorities in taking on culprits of piracy in the aftermath of clear evidence and proof of the criminal acts.

“I don’t understand why we know who the culprits are and somehow they’re still out there doing it. This is something that we can’t warn and it’s a criminal offence."

“There’s evidence to what it is that they’re doing. I don’t understand why we’re babysitting this kind of thing,” she said.

Meanwhile, the film producer had earlier vented her spleen on why the Ghanaian media was over-fixated on Tyler Perry's movie titled 'Straw'

She indicated that if the attention given to Tyler’s new movie was accorded movies other Ghanaian film makers have done, they would have made some impact.

“Why are we talking about Tyler Perry’s movie when we could easily have that same attention come to Shirley Frimpong-Manso movie?” she asked.