The nominees for the 2018 edition of the African Movie Academy Award (AMAA) will be unveiled tomorrow, Friday, organisers of the competition have said.
According to a statement issued in Lagos by the organisers, it said: “In line with its pan-African and Africa integration agenda, the government of Rwanda through the Rwanda Convention Bureau and Rwanda Tourism Bureau has accepted to host the 2018 edition of the African Movie Academy Awards in Kigali in September.”
It added that the event will hold at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Convention Centre on September 22.
The 2018 nominees for the awards will be unveiled at a media and industry event.
German filmmaker and Berlin Film Festival curator, Dorothy Wenner has also been announced as the President of the AMAA Jury for 2018.
According to the AMAA founder, Ms. Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, the competition remains the biggest and most credible jury-based reward system for filmmakers and professionals in the motion picture industry from Africa and Africans in Diaspora.
She said, "It remains a fact that AMAA is the longest running Pan-African awards in the whole of Africa. Similar awards in film, music and virtual arts have come and gone.
“Since 2005, we have worked to keep and protect the integrity of the awards. This is why we can partner with Rwanda, a country where excellence and professionalism drive business and governance.”
Anyiam-Osigwe added that, “The interesting thing about AMAA this year is that visitors especially Africans will not struggle to have visa as all visas will be processed on arrival. We want to thank President Paul Kagame and other African leaders that are making people’s movement within our continent very easy while we call on other African countries to have Visa on arrival policy if we can’t remove visa completely.”
AMAA recently hosted a social media training workshop in Kigali for young people as a Corporate Social Responsibility project sponsored by the Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation, Ecobank and Rwanda Convention Bureau which had with tech resource persons drawn from Nigeria and Rwanda.
