The producers of Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), Africa
Film Academy, will be going a step further to make the award more worthwhile
for filmmakers as they have added monetary reward. AFA has budgeted over $50,000 for winners come
2014 when its 10th edition will hold. In a statement obtained by Julia Blaise Blog (JBB), the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of the award, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe and members of the
organizing committee noted that a whopping $10,000 would be shared among
journalists, who have exceedingly display a proper propagation of the AMAA
brand in the last 9 years.
Winners of Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film, Best
Director and more from the Africa’s Best People’s Choice Awards, would be
awarded a sum of $10,000 each.
According to the statement, that the Africa Movie Academy
team has trained over 2500 people across the continents in filmmaking and
acting related courses.
It was revealed that AMAA’s credibility can’t be questioned
or judged as the jury headed by popular film critic, Steve Ayorinde consist of
major curators of the African cinema at all major cinemas and film festivals
all over the world.
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