The Africa Movie Academy Awards AMAA
(Nigeria, June)
Deadline for entries February 10th.
The Africa Film Academy (AFA) aims to promote the training, lobbying, and the overall development of young professions in the Film industry, striving to maximise their full potential in an industry where there are limitless possibilities and always capacity for more. The Advisory Board of the AFA is headed by renowned American actor Danny Glover who has contin...
Dayo Ogunyemi has been appointed CEO of The Africa Movie Academy Awards AMAA.
Watch him in 2012 when he was the CEO of 234 Media, a firm that made principal investments in media, entertainment and technology sectors in Africa.
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It was announced during Sundance that Dayo Ogunyemi will step in as the new CEO of The Africa Movie Academy Awards AMAA
Dayo Ogunyemi
This year also marks the inauguration of Dayo Ogunyemi as the new CEO of AMAA. Mr. Ogunyemi, after serving on the board of the African Film Academy and as a film law expert for the WIPO, has spent the past two decades at the confluence of entertainment, media and technology with employment experience with Booz Allen & Hamilton's med...
Africa has beautiful stories to tell, says Peace Anyiam-Osigwe. At 16 years old, the Nigerian published her own magazine. She later continued bringing a “voice to voiceless issues” as a talk show host and film producer. Founder of the African Movie Academy Awards, Peace now dedicates her time to building cinemas in rural Africa, and helping other Africans tell the untold stories of their homeland.
Among other accomplishments, you’re a published poet, a TV/film director and p...
Our Jury Members
BERNI GOLDBLAT
Self made filmmaker Berni Goldblat directs, edits, produces and distributes films since 1999 in West Africa. In 2000 he created CINOMADE (www.cinomade.org), an organization based in Burkina Faso, which specializes in intervention cinema through awareness films and debates.
In 2006 Berni established the independent film production company LES FILMS DU DJABADJAH also based in B...
SEND YOUR SUBMISSIONS ON DVD to be received by the 15th of January, 2015
1. View your film submission(s) at http://www.ama-awards.com/submissions/myfilms (you need to be logged in), select 'Printer Version' and print 5 copies which needs to accompany your submission. This is so the AMAA Jury has your information related to each of your films when viewing the film.
2. We require you to sen...
Organisers of the annual and the prestigious Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) have celebrated 10 years of the awards. The capital city of Bayelsa State, Yenagoa became the centre of attraction as movie personalities stormed the city for this year’s awards.
Organisers of the annual and the prestigious Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) have celebrated 10 years of the awards. The capital city of Bayelsa State, Yenagoa became the ce...
Efere Ozako Amaa 2014 Award For Best Short Film: Dialemi – Gabon
2014 Award For Best Animation: Khumba – South Africa
2014 Award For Best Documentary: Hamu Beya- The Sand Fishers – Mali And Potraits Of A Lone Farmer – Nigeria/denmark
2014 Award For Best Film In An African Language: B For Boy – Nigeria
2014 Award For Best Diaspora Short: Passage – Bahamas
2014 ...
WHO WE ARE
The Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) is an offshoot of the Africa Film Academy. It was created in 2005 by Ms. Peace Anyiam-Osigwe.The Academy, founded on the best film tradition, is geared towards research, training and propagating filmmaking in Africa.
Established in 2005, AMAA aims to facilitate the development and relevance of African film & cinema by providing a rewards & recognition platform for film makers on the continent. African...
