Despite losing two of the major awards of the night, Best Movie of the Year and Best Director awards to Burkina Faso and Ghana, Nigeria’s Nollywood weekend reaffirmed its solid place as Africa’s biggest film industry at this year’s African Movie Academy Awards,AMAA.
Richard Mofe Damijo, Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva were honoured at the recently held Africa Movie Academy Awards which held at the Dr. Obi Wali Event Centre, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State on Saturday, June 11, 2016.
AMAA 2016
AMAA received over 420 films from filmmakers across 25 African countries of which 250 feature films and eight short films were nominated by the jury.
The prestigious pan-African reward system for the motion picture practitioners, African Movie Academy Award, has found a new home in the garden city, Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
Nollywood Observer 