In line with its
pan-African and Africa integration agenda, the government of Rwanda through the
Rwanda Convention Bureau and Rwanda Development Board has accepted to host the
2018 edition of the African Movie Academy Awards in Kigali in October.
According to a
statement issued in Lagos by the organizers, the event will hold at the Intare
Conference Arena Saturday, October 20th, 2018.
The 2018 nominees for
the awards will be unveiled on July 21st 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.
It will be recalled
that the awards which has been in existence since 2005 held the nominations
gala event in Kigali in 2017 as part of the activities to expand the frontiers
of unity and integration in Africa.
AMAA according to the
founder, Ms. Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, 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.
“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.
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. Our people will prosper
and there will be shared prosperity when we can travel and do business and even
for holidays easily within Africa,” she said.
Lagos State
Government of Nigeria hosted the 2017 edition of the awards at the Eko Hotel
Convention Centre, Victoria Island while Bayelsa State, the oil rich state from
the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria hosted the awards for straight 10 years.
AMAA recently hosted
a social media training workshop in Kigali for young people as a Corporate Social
Responsibility project sponsored by Osigwe Anyiam – Osigwe Foundation, Ecobank
and Rwanda Convention Bureau which had with tech resource persons drawn from
Nigeria and Rwanda.
Source: https://www.ama-awards.com/amaa-2018-kigali-hosts-prestigieous-awards.html
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