By Adedayo Odulaja
As parts of the year-long activities marking the 10th anniversary of the Africa Movie Academy Awards, the parent organisation and owner of the AMAA brand, the Africa Film Academy will host an anniversary Charity Gala night on Saturday, August 17, 2014.
The event will hold at Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island will have South Africa’s Frank Edwards and Kgosto and their band members to thrill guests.
Founder of AMAA, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, said the charity gala will be used to raise funds to support AFA’s work across Africa adding that Africa has come of age and the positive stories about the continent must be told to the rest of the world through motion pictures.
‘We want to raise funds to support our training and other talent development programmes across Africa. We are selling tables and souvenirs to raise the funds. It will be a gala night with Joyous Celebration, Africa’s largest Gospel Band from South Africa on stand to entertain our guests. We are praising God for blessing our work in the last 10 years and also raising awareness about the work we do through our Film-in-a-Box project across the continent. We call on our partners, sponsors and other corporate bodies to support us the more,’ she noted.
The AMAA Media Recognition Awards will also hold at the event to celebrate journalists in Africa who have helped to project the awards and the motion picture industry to the rest of the world. The media award carries a $10,000 cash prize to be shared among the three clear winners and two consolation prize winners.
Steve Ayorinde coordinated AMAA’s Media recognition awards 3-man committee with Thisday’s Onoshe Nwabuikwu and Ifeoma Amobi of the department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos as members.
