Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) recently
announced that it is now calling for entries for the 2013 edition to be held in
April next year. The deadline for submissions is 30 December 2012 and
nominations will be announced in the first week of March.
Acceptable genres include feature length
films, shorts and documentary entries. Only films produced, premiered and or
released between December 2011 and November 2012 are eligible. Features may not
exceed 120 minutes and shorts should not be longer than 40 minutes.
The AMAAs are an offshoot of the Africa
Film Academy. The Academy, founded on the best film tradition, is geared
towards research, training and propagating film making 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 film makers work hard with very little and have, not
through serendipity but through sheer audacity, managed to build the 3rd
largest film industry in the world, and are poised to take poll position,
beating America and India.
Previous AMAA winners include How 2 Steal 2
Million (South Africa), Toussaint Louverture (Senegal/France), The Education of Auma Obama (Germany)
and White Sugar In A
Black Pot (USA).
