Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, founder and president of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in a press conference held this week in Lagos announced the call for entries in all categories stating that this call will last till March 2023. The Africa Film Academy invites filmmakers to submit their feature films, short films, animation, and documentary work for consideration in nearly 30 film categories of the awards.”
The awards show producer, Kingsley James (COO) reiterated that the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu will return as the host for the 19th edition of the AMAAs while other activities that include human capacity building by the AFA, jury’s session, nomination unveil, and one week-long festivities that will herald the 2023 edition will be unchanged.
“For us, our announcement of the lined up activities for AMAA 2023 is a deliberate action from our end. One of the aims for creating AMAA is to provide and create a networking platform and avenue for African filmmakers and practitioners to interact while getting rewarded for their creativity, uniqueness, authenticity and professionalism. We will be having a monthly dialogue with practitioners and creatives. We would also be having another round of film in a box while the nomination unveil will come up in August 2023. For the AMAA proper, we will be having a 7-days complete creative week that will encompass music, film, fashion and arts. So I can tell you it’s a tightly packed year for us at AMAA and we can’t do it all alone without the support of the media.”
Dr Shaibu Husseni, Head of AMAA’s College of Screeners in his speech says the body is looking forward to getting great films from African film practitioners.
“We look forward to feature films, animations, documentaries, and more. I would like to reiterate that the country of the film is different from the origin of the film. We do not encourage films that don’t have Africans or filmmakers of African descent. Films can be uploaded on the film freeway. We would be enlarging the scope of our college of screeners from 12 to more this year. These are the people that will screen films for the jury while the president of the jury is responsible for films that get nominated. We don’t do part two during the screening of films or judging films at AMAA”. This is coming after the success of the 18th edition, held at the Jewel Aeida hall in the Lekki, Lagos on October 30.