Tonight at the Bayelsa Cultural Centre, Yenagoa in Bayelsa State in Nigeria, the 7th African Movie Academy Awards 2011 winners will be declared. It is very difficult to know who wins what tonight.
But virtually everyone here on the African Continent has an expectation. What is your expectations? GhanaCelebrities.Com spoke to some people in the movie industry on the continent. Read more …
MAJID MICHEL [BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE NOMINEE]: “I just want to have lots of fun tonight. I will be surprised if I win it and surprised if I don’t win it.”
FATIMA JABBE [ACTRESS AND ASSOCIATE PRODUCER FOR THE MOVIE ‘MIRROR BOY’ FROM GAMBIA/UK]: “This is my second time in Nigeria but my first time at the AMAA. I’m looking forward for a good show and a fair show. If your film is nominated, you always want to make sure you win but it’s the experience that matters here, we are meeting different people, we are talking, we are interacting, we are networking. Today is a day that you know that Africans have started realizing that we have something good to export to the rest of the world to acknowledge us”.
SAJANI SRIVASTAVA [A FILM MAKER FROM INDIA BUT HAS A COMPANY IN TANZANIA] HER MOVIE ‘NANI’ NOMINATED FOR BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: “This is my first time in Nigeria and in the AMAAs and my expectations for the awards is very high. I’m always positive. Let’s leave it to God.
Yes I’m confident I’m winning the award because my film won the best film in Zanzibar Film Festival as well as nominated in other film festivals, so I have high hopes for tonight. I have not seen the other movies I’m competing with but I know they are good movies also”.
DZIGBODI ALLOTEY [PRESENTER FROM GHANA]: “As usual I’m expecting to have fun. I’m expecting to see an improvement from last year’s awards. I have the feeling tonight is going to be great. I’m hoping to have more fun.