Shirley Frimpong Manso's Love or Something Like that as a headline film of Nollywodweek 2015

Shirley Frimpong Manso's Love or Something Like that as a headline film of Nollywodweek 2015
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Sunday 27 September 2015


NOMINEES AND WINNERS OF THE 2015 EDITION OF THE AFRICA MOVIE ACADEMY AWARDS (AMAA) HELD IN PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2015.


EFERE OZAKO AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM

Stories of Our Lives ‘’Run’ – Kenya 

Aissa’s Story – Nigeria 

Gulped of the Blue Sea - Togo

Memoir of a Honest Voice- Sierra Leone

Twaaga – Burkina Faso

WINNER - TWAAGA (BURKINA FASO)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATION

The Throne – Nigeria 

Alternative to Corporal Punishment – Namibia 

The Legacies of Rubies – Nigeria 

Akorkoli - Ghana

WINNER- THE LEGACIES OF RUBIES (NIGERIA)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY

Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs  – Egypt 

The Dream of Shahrazad – South Africa
 
Nelson Mandela, The Myth and Me - South Africa 

Beats of The Antonov – Sudan 

The Supreme Price – Nigeria/USA

WINNER- EGYPT'S MODERN PHARAOHS (EGYPT)

OUSMANE SEMBENE AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FILM IN AN AFRICAN LANGUAGE

Timbuktu – Mauritania

Triangle Going to America – Ethiopia 

Chetanna – Nigeria 

Juliet and Romeo - Burkina Faso

iNumber Number – South Africa

WINNER- TIMBUKTU (MAURITANIA)

MICHAEL ANYIAM OSIGWE AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FILM BY AN AFRICAN LIVING ABROAD:

Gone Too Far – Nigeria/UK

Thorns of Roses (O Esphinho Da Rosa) – Guinea Bissau/Portugal 

Fevers – France/Morocco
Affairs of the Heart – Nigeria/USA

WINNER- FEVERS (FRANCE/MOROCCO)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA SHORT 
Sound of Tears - Canada 

Hand to the Sky – USA

Calm – UK

 WINNER - SOUND OF TEARS (CANADA)


AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA DOCUMENTARY

Jimmy Goes to Nollywood - USA/HAITI

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution – USA
Bound: Africans VS African Americans – USA

Black Panther Woman – Australia

WINNER- THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION (USA)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA FEATURE

Under the Starry Sky - France

CRU - USA 

Supremacy - USA

WINNER- SUPREMACY (USA)



Winner of the animation category Ebele Okoye

Director of the comedy film 30 Days in Atlanta Robert Peters displaying the award for best comedy film. 

Samson Tadesse winner of the best supporting actor award joined by the director of Triangle Going to America


AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN

iNumber Number - South Africa 

October 1 – Nigeria 

Le President - Cameroun 

Run – Cote d’Ivoire

Timbuktu – Mauritania

 WINNER- INUMBER NUMBER (SOUTH AFRICA)


AMAA 2015 ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN

Dazzling Mirage- Nigeria

Run – Cote d’Ivoire 

Njinga: Queen of Angola – Angola

October 1 – Nigeria
 
iNumber Number – South Africa

WINNER- OCTOBER I (NIGERIA)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP

Run – Cote d’Ivoire

Iyore – Nigeria 

Silver Rain – Ghana

iNumber Number – South Africa

Njinga: Queen of Angola – Angola

WINNER: NJINGA: QUEEN OF ANGOLA (ANGOLA)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUNDTRACK

A Place in the Stars – Nigeria
 
Triangle Going to America – Ethiopia

Iyore – Nigeria

Njinga: Queen of Angola – Angola

Timbuktu – Mauritania

WINNER- TRIANGLE GOING TO AMERICA (ETHIOPIA) 

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECT

Invasion 1897 – Nigeria
 
Kpians The Feast of Souls – Nigeria
 
Run – Cote d’Ivoire 

iNumber Number – South Africa
Triangle Going to America - Ethiopia

WINNER- INUMBER NUMBER (SOUTH AFRICA)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND

Lobraz Kaan – Mauritius

Le President – Cameroun
Run – Cote d’Ivoire

Timbuktu – Mauritania
 
iNumber Number – South Africa

WINNER - LOBRAZ KAAN (MAURITIUS) 

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

Triangle Going to America – Ethiopia

iNumber Number – South Africa
 
Run – Cote d’Ivoire

Lobraz Kaan – Mauritius

Timbuktu - Mauritania

WINNER - LOBRAZ KAAN (MAURITIUS)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING

October 1

iNumber Number 

Triangle Going to America
 
Run

Timbuktu

WINNER - TIMBUKTU (MAURITANIA)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SCREEN PLAY

Le President 

While You Slept

Timbuktu 

Love or Something Like That

Run

WINNER - LE PRESIDENT (CAMEROUN)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST COMEDY FILM


30 Days in Atlanta

Iya Alalake 

Last Three Digits

WINNER - 30 DAYS IN ATLANTA (NIGERIA) 
  
AMAA 2015- BAYELSA STATE GOVERNMENT ENDOWED AWARD FOR BEST NIGERIAN FILM

Invasion 1897

Dazzling Mirage 

October 1
 
Iyore
 
A Place in the Stars

WINNER - OCTOBER 1 

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST CHILD ACTOR

Layla Walet Mohammed and Mehdi A.G Mohammed – Timbuktu

Joshua Ibrahim and Daniel Ibrahim- A Place in the Stars 

Any Bobmanuel and Akonte Bobmanuel - Stigma

WINNER - Layla Walet Mohammed and Mehdi A.G Mohammed – Timbuktu

Dazzling Mirage actress Kemi Lala Akindoju admiring her best promising award. She is a joint winner of the award. The other winner is Hassan Spike Insingoma star actor of the uganda film 'Boda Boda Thieves' who was unavoidably absent because he is reportedly serving a life jail term in Uganda

Director of the Ethiopian Movie Triangle Going to America showing off his Special Jury Prize AWARD

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG/ PROMISING ACTOR
  
Demola Adedoyin - October 1

Vinjeru Kamanga - BELLA

Kemi Lala Akindoju – Dazzling Mirage
Hassan Spike Insingoma - Boda Boda Thieves 

Chiedza Mhende – Love the one You Love

WINNER - ITS A JOINT AWARD AND IT GOES TO Kemi Lala Akindoju – Dazzling Mirage (Nigeria) and Hassan Spike Insingoma - Boda Boda Thieves 
(Uganda) * Hassan is reportedly serving a life jail sentence in Uganda. He was convicted for murder in 2013.

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Israel Makoe - iNumber Number

Paul Obazele – Iyore 

Chumani Pan- Silver Rain 

OC Ukeje – Love or Something Like That 

Samson Tadesse - Triangle Going to America.

WINNER - SAMSON TADESSE (TRIANGLE GOING TO AMERICA-ETHIOPIA)
Director of the movie Stigma showing off the award of best actress in a supporting role won by the actress Hilda Dokubo who was unavoidably absent at the award event

winner of the visual effect category (inumber number)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Hilda Dokubo - Stigma 

Toulou Kiki - Timbuktu

Reina Salicoulibaly – Run

Prossy Rukundo - Boda Boda Thieves 

Ama Amphofo – Devil in a Detail

WINNER - HILDA DOKUBO (STIGMA- NIGERIA)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Tony Kgoroge – Cold Harbour 

S’dumo Mtshali - iNumber Number

Abdoul Kareem Konate – Run

Sadiq Daba – October 1

Gerard Essomba - Le President

WINNER - SADIQ DABA (OCTOBER 1- NIGERIA)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Lesliana Pereira - NJINGA: Queen of Angola

Queen Nwokoye – Chetenna
 
Aida Wang - Juliet and Romeo 

Jocelyn Dumas –Silver Rain
 
Ini Edo – While You Slept

WINNER - LESLINA PEREIRA (NJINGA: QUEEN OF ANGOLA)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM BY A DIRECTOR

Carey Mckenzie -Cold Harbour

Jenna Bass - Love the one you love 

Destiny Ekaragha - Gone Too Far

Tawonga Taddja Nkhonjera – Bella

WINNER - DESTINY EKARAGHA (GONE TOO FAR)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR

Theodros Teshome Kebede- Triangle Going to America - Ethiopia

Donovan Marsh - iNumber Number 

Abderrahmane Sissako - Timbuktu

Phillipe Lacote - Run

Kunle Afolayan - October 1

WINNER - ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO (TIMBUKTU)

AMAA 2015 AWARD FOR BEST FILM

Run – Cote d’Ivoire 
Timbuktu – Mauritania 
iNumber Number – South Africa
Triangle Going to America – Ethiopia
October 1- Nigeria

WINNER - TIMBUKTU (MAURITANIA)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

There are some occasions where the jury feels the need to acknowledge certain films for their forward vision.  On this occasion, the jury would like to give special jury prizes to two films:

Le President by Jean-Pierre Bekolo of Cameroun;
and to
Triangle: Going to America by Theodros Teshome Kebede of Ethiopia.



AMAA 2015 JURY STATEMENT DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE JURY FOR 2015 MR. KEITH SHIRI: Saturday September 26, 2015. Port Elizabeth    South Africa


On behalf of the jury members I welcome you to the AMAA 2015 Awards. Over the last 11 years, the AMAA Awards has set itself the challenging but rewarding task of celebrating the best of our continent and its Diaspora’s filmmaking.

To this end, our aim has always been to reward and encourage African originality in film production; to seek out and bring attention to the continent’s unique and distinctive talents; to champion her distinctive voices and to encourage and nurture that rare combination of ambition and originality that is the best of our movie making.

Every year, hundreds of films from across the continent and its Diaspora arrive at the AMAA offices.  This year we received close to 800 movie entries from over 60 countries, mostly within Africa and also from around the world. This unprecedented number of entries, in all categories and from many African diaspora countries and communities. can lead only to this conclusion: AMAA is indeed, a truly Pan-African event and a global brand.

It is significant that this year for the first time in AMAA’s history, the nominations event was held in the African Diaspora, in Los Angeles:  and that the Awards themselves are held outside of Nigeria, here in South Africa.

And after our several weeks and months of consultations, we commend to you tonight, our roll call of the best for 2015.
Thank you and have a wonderful evening.



The Jury 

Keith Shiri, London based programme advisor BFI London Film Festival, Artistic Director of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), President of the AMAA 2015 Jury.

Ambassador Filippe Savadogo    Former Secretary General FESPACO   Burkina Faso

John Akomfrah, OBE, London based Ghanaian filmmaker  

Prof. Hyginus Ekwuazi, Professor of Broadcasting and Film, University of Ibadan
Former Managing director of the Nigerian Film Corporation, and until recently Head of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan,  Founding Director National Film Institute and former Director General Nigerian Film Corporation Jos, Nigeria.
Steve Ayorinde, Journalist and former MD of “National Mirror” newspaper, Nigeria

Dorothee Wenner, filmmaker and curator at the Berlin International Film Festival

Asantewa Olatunji, Programming Director of PAFF, Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and Atlanta,

June Givanni,  International film curator based in UK,  Artistic Director of the Colours of the Nile Film Festival, Addis Abeba; and director of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive    

Shaibu Husseini, film journalist and critic at Lagos based The Guardian newspapers, Nigeria

Berni Goldblat, filmmaker and producer based in Burkina Faso

Ayuko Babu, Executive Director of PAFF, Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and Atlanta

Charles Burnett, filmmaker Los Angeles USA