Like any other award, the African Movie Academy Awards is an awards scheme which was conceived few years back to recognize excellence of African filmmakers as well as uniting the African continent through arts and culture. However, the connoisseurs of the movie industry upon careful look at the awards have termed it as the ‘African Oscars’.
The concept is great and it has been success over the years. Africans must therefore rally behind it and give it the necessary support.
Media coverage to the AMAA since its inception in 2005 has been firmly entrusted into the hands of the Nigerian media professionals. But with few days to the 2011 edition of the awards, which is scheduled for the 27th of March 2011, the organizers have decided to spread its media coverage tentacles to the rest of the African countries.
This well-timed decision according to the rep of the awards in Ghana “Judith Oluwole Kuwornu” at the orientation/meeting with the selected media houses said the Chief Executive Officer of the awards, Ms. Peace Anyiam-Osigwe has reiterated on several platforms that, though she is a Nigerian, she considers herself as more of an African than a Nigerian, hence the decision to spread her wings to the rest of Africa and have them feel what the awards is all about.
According to her, commencing from this year, journalists will be selected from the rest of Africa, especially from participating countries to be part of the awards and share the experience when they return back home to their respective countries.
Media houses selected for the trip to grace the 7th Africa Movie Academy Awards in Nigeria are: GhanaCelebrities.Com, Metro TV and Peace FM/Peacefmonline.Com.
The rest are Daily Guide/NewsOne, Graphic Showbiz, Myjoyonline.Com and Net2 TV. Representatives from each of the media houses will fly to Nigeria on Thursday March 24 and return on Monday, March 28.
At the press orientation for the media houses, footage of the previous AMAA was shown, highlighting the growth of the awards’ organizations over the years with a promise of this year’s
edition being very exciting.
According to the CEO, the good thing about this year’s AMAA is that our guests will experience Bayelsa in a new way as we have events line up for a whole week.
AMAA this year will not be a day event. There will be opportunity to network, share experiences and even make co-production deals with other filmmakers. Visitors will explore the sights and sound of Bayelsa and feel the people and culture of the state.
With this year’s AMAA nominations, Nigeria trails Congo, South Africa as both countries got the highest nominations. ‘Viva River’, a film from Congo had the highest single nominations.
South Africa has four strong movies which have been nominated. The four South Africa films in the competition are ‘Hope Ville’ with 9 nominations, ‘Izulu Lami’, 7 nominations, ‘Shirley Adams’, 5 nominations and ‘A small Town Called Descent’ got 6 nominations. Together, South Africa has the highest nominations by country with total of 27 nominations.
Ghana’s ‘Sinking Sound’ has 10 nominations and Kenya’s ‘Soul Boy’ has 6 nominations while Nigeria has four films that are also prominent on the nomination list with Tunde Kelani’s ‘Maami’, ‘Inale’, a film directed by Jeta Amata, Niyi Akanji’s ‘Aramotu’, and Mahmood Alli-Balogun’s ‘Tango With Me’. Nigeria by country nomination trail South Africa with 23 total nominations.
Massa, have fun but remember No BEER!
@Chris hahahahah let him have some so we can see his famous dance again than lol
Congratulations GC and Eben…yep i agree with ya’ll two take it easy in Naija and please do another picture of yourself dancing =)
Hahahahahahahhahah
congratulation 2 Gh.cel.com, showbiz n newsOne, i’m realy glad 4 u all..as a mata of fact dese r ma 3 main sources of entertainment newz in Gh.. keep up d hard work n big ups 2 y’all. njoy 9ja n take care
Those journalist chosen please bring back great coverage of the whole ceremony. Take good picture of the actors from head to toes. ask the winning actors questions in regards to their movies and personal lives. Get it all we want to know….
i hope you do something about your page when you came back from the trip. it’s too clumsy and doesn’t make viewing exciting. coming here is like walking through a maze…. unfortunately, i have to bear with it cos they aren’t many Ghanaian entertainment websites.
Eben oh, have good times. Make sure you take some good pictures and have a bottle of beer for me unless they have champagne then you can have a couple of glasses that instead or you know what….have both!! lol. Enjoy oh this is great GC….big tings are coming 😉
ok y did yall take off my comments?
cos i said GC is not real journalism
@syn co back to school who and learn. The. Difference or focus more on reading the article instead of jumping to people comment and insulting them strait away
…And we do not want to ever be journalists on here too… Has anyone of us ever said he/she aspires to be a journalist? They selected reporters from media houses and not what you naively think- JOURNALISTS.
Where in the article did it say, they selected journalists? GC is a blog and everyone who writes on here is a blogger/+ a reporter.
If you care to know, modernisation has set in and blogs which form the majority part of internet media (widely accessible) is the new face of publicity, information dissemination and if you like, you can add online journalism to it…
Journalism has moved away from what you know and have been for years. Can you even tell me who a journalist is in this contemporary media world? If Julius Assange qualifies as a journalist, then it should tell you that, journalism has taken a new dimension.
GC is going either you like or or yes! We (Blogs) are the new and effective face of today’s media…Get educated before you make a fool out of yourself !
,my question is y de f^ck did u take off my comments
cant take criticism? f^ck u bitch
Keep swearing, you will get your ass banned soon! You do not even know the difference between criticism and swearing huh? You do not deserve to comment on here…Good bye
ooohhhh dat will b de end of de world 4 me right. ima f^cking swear u idiot. u suck a kid. how old r u anyways? if u cant take it y r u here
Chris, this one must be banned for 1 year, he does not make sense on this blog, always swearing and insulting others. I love GC, hehehehehe! Now who has the power on here?
@Syn hahhahaha Now you can Mute the television again hahahahaha You are BANNEND
And we are going, what can you do? lol, I am grown enough to have a blog for you to visit every day….You have just paraded your ignorance for everyone to see, so I will not even bother with you again…
Atleast, I have taught you something today. You have to pay me for that… Ooops! you have already paid even by logging on here… lol
haahaha ,another ban again ..this was the guy who said he hates yvonne nelson and whenever he sees her speak he mute the Tv and his comment was publish big for us to laugh abt it ..and now banned cos of his misbehaviour …..lol sorry dude …but not good to curse the owner of this blog ….
hahahhaha that’s funny. im glad that fool has been banned. always spitting ish. gyimii ba ta no dodo aa.mtwww
@Nanayaa hahhahah I bet your happy now loooool should GC banned you for celebrating as well hahhahahah
oh Miyagi why? just wen i was begining to like u.mtwww lolz . u know I always behave when I come here. I keeps it classy, all day.lls
@nanayaa loool my dear you know I’m only joking hahah don’t take it serious I know your angel and always keep it classy until someone steps on your tail my apologies my dear
GC sholud also ban Miyagi
@mee “sholud” lmao cool let the public decide so you can have your way and celebrate after that useless goat
Miyagi, lol I know u were joking but apology accepted. No hard feelings at all. lol u are right abt wen someone step on my toes thou. but I still keeps it classy.
ehye but u Miyagi, u be going off on ppl paa ooo..hmmm
@nanayaa look that’s true those people deserve it I want sit there for people to insult me and just get away with it and I really don’t no why some of them are hating on me forgo reason so when they spit garbage than I fire flame them back