The film was directed by the late Denise Dowse
Denise Dowse’s US drama Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story picked up best international film at the 8th British Urban Film Festival (Buff) on Wednesday, December 7.
The film stars US musician Ledisi as the gospel singer and activist Mahalia Jackson who had a close friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. and played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Dowse died in August of this year at the age of 64.
Remember Me was the most nominated film of the night, contending also in best soundtrack and best actress for Ledisi.
Denise Dowse’s US drama Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story picked up best international film at the 8th British Urban Film Festival (Buff) on Wednesday, December 7.
The film stars US musician Ledisi as the gospel singer and activist Mahalia Jackson who had a close friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. and played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Dowse died in August of this year at the age of 64.
Remember Me was the most nominated film of the night, contending also in best soundtrack and best actress for Ledisi.
- 12/9/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The late Denise Dowse’s ’Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story’ has received the most nominations.
The British Urban Film Festival (Buff) has unveiled nominations for the 2022 awards, to be held at London’s Rich Mix on December 2, following the week-long festival.
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story has received the most nominations. The drama focuses on gospel singer and activist Mahalia Jackson’s unsung contribution to the US civil rights movement in the mid-20th century, and her friendship with Martin Luther King. It is directed by the late Denise Dowse, with US musician Ledisi starring as Jackson – a...
The British Urban Film Festival (Buff) has unveiled nominations for the 2022 awards, to be held at London’s Rich Mix on December 2, following the week-long festival.
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story has received the most nominations. The drama focuses on gospel singer and activist Mahalia Jackson’s unsung contribution to the US civil rights movement in the mid-20th century, and her friendship with Martin Luther King. It is directed by the late Denise Dowse, with US musician Ledisi starring as Jackson – a...
- 11/14/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Unfortunately, the most notable thing about new sorta-cyber thriller Black Mail is that this weekend it is receiving the widest release ever — 100 screens — in the UK for an independent Black British film. That’s a nice barrier to break, and I wish I could recommend the film.
Does anyone actually fall for those sextortion emails in which scammers inform you — invariably in broken English and with no proof whatsoever — that they’ve installed spyware on your computer and have recorded video of you “having fun” at a p0rn website, and threaten to send it to all your contacts unless you placate them with some Bitcoin? Well, Ray Chinda falls for it… and reacts in a ridiculously stupid way that confirms him as an easy mark. Even more unlikely than that, Chinda is meant to be “a world-famous action star at the top of his career” (according to the film...
Does anyone actually fall for those sextortion emails in which scammers inform you — invariably in broken English and with no proof whatsoever — that they’ve installed spyware on your computer and have recorded video of you “having fun” at a p0rn website, and threaten to send it to all your contacts unless you placate them with some Bitcoin? Well, Ray Chinda falls for it… and reacts in a ridiculously stupid way that confirms him as an easy mark. Even more unlikely than that, Chinda is meant to be “a world-famous action star at the top of his career” (according to the film...
- 8/27/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
’André Rieu’s 2022 Maastricht Summer Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again’ plays widely this weekend.
Universal’s survival thriller Beast is the widest release among the features debuting at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, however event cinema André Rieu’s 2022 Maastricht Summer Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again boasts the overall largest figure.
Beast is directed by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur. The survival thriller stars Idris Elba as a grieving widower, who must protect his daughters from a voracious lion. It is set to play at 601 sites this weekend.
Kormakur’s best known for 2015 real-life disaster thriller, Everest, which opened to £2.4m from 567 sites.
Universal’s survival thriller Beast is the widest release among the features debuting at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, however event cinema André Rieu’s 2022 Maastricht Summer Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again boasts the overall largest figure.
Beast is directed by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur. The survival thriller stars Idris Elba as a grieving widower, who must protect his daughters from a voracious lion. It is set to play at 601 sites this weekend.
Kormakur’s best known for 2015 real-life disaster thriller, Everest, which opened to £2.4m from 567 sites.
- 8/26/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
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Nigeria has become one of the latest major battlegrounds in the streaming wars. Both Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have made sizeable moves into Africa’s most populous nation as they look to boost their subscribers, signing several deals with local producers and studios for Nollywood content.
Netflix recently unveiled its latest slate of originals from the continent that was busy with Nigerian projects (including a buzzy movie premiering in Toronto) just days after Amazon touted its first two Nigerian originals. But while industry eyes may be on activity within the country, Nollywood is about to have a milestone moment in U.K. cinemas.
Releasing Aug. 26, Black Mail, from Nigerian-born writer/director Obi Emelonye — a U.K. resident for almost three decades — is the filmmaker’s latest in a growing library of Nollywood projects he’s been making from the U.K. since...
Nigeria has become one of the latest major battlegrounds in the streaming wars. Both Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have made sizeable moves into Africa’s most populous nation as they look to boost their subscribers, signing several deals with local producers and studios for Nollywood content.
Netflix recently unveiled its latest slate of originals from the continent that was busy with Nigerian projects (including a buzzy movie premiering in Toronto) just days after Amazon touted its first two Nigerian originals. But while industry eyes may be on activity within the country, Nollywood is about to have a milestone moment in U.K. cinemas.
Releasing Aug. 26, Black Mail, from Nigerian-born writer/director Obi Emelonye — a U.K. resident for almost three decades — is the filmmaker’s latest in a growing library of Nollywood projects he’s been making from the U.K. since...
- 8/24/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A film star faces financial and family ruin as sleazy Russian mobsters blackmail him after malware films him watching porn
Nigerian film-maker Obi Emelonye has written, produced and directed more than a dozen films, but his work is barely known beyond the Nollywood distribution circuit that serves viewers in west Africa and immigrant communities elsewhere. However, Black Mail, his London-set latest, is getting a reasonably wide release in the UK at least. The lowish-budget production values, gestural performances and blunt moralism of the scriptwriting puts this very much in the heightened dramatic tradition of mainstream Nigerian cinema, but Emelonye has an accessible style and has picked the topical subject of cybercrime, an approach which might broaden the film’s appeal.
The plot weaves together the story of hapless London-based film actor Ray Chinda (Oc Ukeje) and the Russian mobsters who are blackmailing him. Married with children to solicitor Nikki (Julia Holden...
Nigerian film-maker Obi Emelonye has written, produced and directed more than a dozen films, but his work is barely known beyond the Nollywood distribution circuit that serves viewers in west Africa and immigrant communities elsewhere. However, Black Mail, his London-set latest, is getting a reasonably wide release in the UK at least. The lowish-budget production values, gestural performances and blunt moralism of the scriptwriting puts this very much in the heightened dramatic tradition of mainstream Nigerian cinema, but Emelonye has an accessible style and has picked the topical subject of cybercrime, an approach which might broaden the film’s appeal.
The plot weaves together the story of hapless London-based film actor Ray Chinda (Oc Ukeje) and the Russian mobsters who are blackmailing him. Married with children to solicitor Nikki (Julia Holden...
- 8/22/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The festival runs from November 26 to December 3.
The British Urban Film Festival (Buff) has revealed the line-up for the 2022 edition, opening with the world premiere of festival founder Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe’s directorial debut, Absolutely Marvellous.
The feature was filmed over a five-year period, and profiles Marvel Opara, the visually impaired mother of British Olympic boxer Joe Joyce.
The line-up features four world premieres, including Isaac Odeniran’s Child Of The Occult, which follows tension within a family between belief in God and the occult, plus 11 UK premieres, such as The Anger from Lebanese filmmaker Marie Surae, about a Muslim girl...
The British Urban Film Festival (Buff) has revealed the line-up for the 2022 edition, opening with the world premiere of festival founder Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe’s directorial debut, Absolutely Marvellous.
The feature was filmed over a five-year period, and profiles Marvel Opara, the visually impaired mother of British Olympic boxer Joe Joyce.
The line-up features four world premieres, including Isaac Odeniran’s Child Of The Occult, which follows tension within a family between belief in God and the occult, plus 11 UK premieres, such as The Anger from Lebanese filmmaker Marie Surae, about a Muslim girl...
- 8/15/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Scorsese Joins Mundruczó’s ‘Evolution’; Crytpt TV’s First Indian Horror; Buff Lineup — Global Briefs
Martin Scorsese Joins ‘Evolution’ As Exec Producer
Martin Scorsese is joining Kornél Mundruczó’s Cannes title Evolution as an executive producer. This marks his second collaboration with the filmmaker and screenwriter Kata Wéber after Oscar nominee Pieces Of A Woman. “Every new movie by Mundruczó and Wéber comes as a welcome shock to the senses for the viewer and for the filmmaker – they never stop advancing into uncharted territory. With Evolution, they find a way to dramatize the movement of time itself, the ways that we remember and the ways that we forget,” said Scorsese. The pic, which explores a family’s experiences from World War II to present-day Berlin, had its world premiere at on the Croisette earlier this year. It stars Lili Monori (Delta), Annamária Láng (Nothing Really Happened), Goya Rego, Padmé Hamdemir and Jule Böwe (The Silence). The movie is produced by Viola Fügen, Michael Weber and Viktória Petrányi,...
Martin Scorsese is joining Kornél Mundruczó’s Cannes title Evolution as an executive producer. This marks his second collaboration with the filmmaker and screenwriter Kata Wéber after Oscar nominee Pieces Of A Woman. “Every new movie by Mundruczó and Wéber comes as a welcome shock to the senses for the viewer and for the filmmaker – they never stop advancing into uncharted territory. With Evolution, they find a way to dramatize the movement of time itself, the ways that we remember and the ways that we forget,” said Scorsese. The pic, which explores a family’s experiences from World War II to present-day Berlin, had its world premiere at on the Croisette earlier this year. It stars Lili Monori (Delta), Annamária Láng (Nothing Really Happened), Goya Rego, Padmé Hamdemir and Jule Böwe (The Silence). The movie is produced by Viola Fügen, Michael Weber and Viktória Petrányi,...
- 11/9/2021
- by Anuj Radia
- Deadline Film + TV
In a remarkable first for a Nollywood film Obi Emelonye a lawyer-turned filmmaker from London premieres his low-budget, boxing-themed movie “Oxford Gardens” at the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) HQ. Despite a cinema tradition of over… Continue Reading →...
- 9/30/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
"Nollywood," a new documentary that premiered on Al Jazeera English yesterday, July 28, 2015, is now available to watch in full online. It provides an insider look at Nigeria’s prolific film industry, which makes more films than Hollywood – 50 a week. Only India’s Bollywood makes more. Contributing to the documentary are leading Nollywood directors like James Omokwe, Kunle Afolayan, Mildred Okwo, Obi Emelonye, Stanlee Ohikhuare, Tunde Kelani, and Udoka Oyeka, as well as acclaimed actors Bimbo Manuel, Genevieve Nnaji, Joke Silva, Kiki Omeili, Mercy Johnson, Olu Jacobs and Ramsey Nouah. The documentary is embedded at the bottom of this post. I don't know if you have read...
- 7/29/2015
- by Michael Chima Ekenyerengozi
- ShadowAndAct
In what is undoubtedly a first, the first ever Nollywood film premiere in IMAX will take place this Thursday Feb. 26 in London at the BFI IMAX Cinema Located in South Bank Waterloo The film is filmmaker Obi Emelonye’s latest film, Thy Will be Done starring Ramsey Noah, Mercy Johnson Okojie and Mary Njoku, and which deals with Pius, pastor in Lagos, whose happy and contented world turns completely upside down when his long thought dead first wife suddenly appears on his doorstep and ‘weakened by guilt and overwhelmed by sensational revelations, nothing would have prepared Pius for how rapidly things would descend into violent chaos”. Not only is this is first Nollywood...
- 2/23/2015
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The ninth Screen National Film and Television Awards, to be held Feb 23 at London’s Park Plaza Riverbank hotel, will have the theme of Nigeria@100.
British Nigerian actress Caroline Chikezie and comedian Ali Baba will host the awards. Nigerian born, British based director/producer Obi Emelonye will serve as creative director.
The awards recognise culturally diverse talent working in film and TV.
Honorees this year will include actor/producer Bill Duke receiving the Outstanding Contribution award. Do The Right Thing will be honoured as the classic international film, with The Cosby Show as international TV show. The Classic UK TV show will be Desmond’s, in honour of its 25th anniversary.
Awards founder Charles Thompson said: “The last 12 months have been a stellar year for world class cinema involving African British talent and one that finally signals their critical breakthrough to full international recognition. With many coming from a British Nigerian heritage I am delighted to celebrate...
British Nigerian actress Caroline Chikezie and comedian Ali Baba will host the awards. Nigerian born, British based director/producer Obi Emelonye will serve as creative director.
The awards recognise culturally diverse talent working in film and TV.
Honorees this year will include actor/producer Bill Duke receiving the Outstanding Contribution award. Do The Right Thing will be honoured as the classic international film, with The Cosby Show as international TV show. The Classic UK TV show will be Desmond’s, in honour of its 25th anniversary.
Awards founder Charles Thompson said: “The last 12 months have been a stellar year for world class cinema involving African British talent and one that finally signals their critical breakthrough to full international recognition. With many coming from a British Nigerian heritage I am delighted to celebrate...
- 12/4/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
On Fri 18th Oct, The Lighthouse in London was awash with glamour, fun, Nollywood stars and huge laughs as Okey Bakassi worked his on screen magic and showed once again why he is one of the biggest comic stars to come out of Nigeria. In a world's first event for Nollywood, multi award winning director Obi Emelonye premiered his latest film Onye Ozi (The Messenger), live and online to universal acclaim and at the same time birthed what many are saying is a new Nollywood comedy classic. But this was not the only sensational performance of the night, because as evidenced by the unending applause given to lead actress Ngozi...
- 10/23/2013
- by Onye Ozi Press
- ShadowAndAct
Nigerian helmer Obi Emelonye, the director of The Last Flight To Abuja, will release his next film, titled Onye Ozi (The Messenger), online, in an ambitious move that will see the movie available on the web to global audiences, simultaneously. The premiere is set for tomorrow, Friday, October 18, and will be preceded by a Google+ Hangout featuring the film's red carpet premiere in London. We will have both the Google+ Hangout and the actual film premiere, available here. To see the film, it will cost a small fee of course, depending on what country you're in. Full details on the online global event follows via press release below, including the...
- 10/17/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Premiere information for the next work from Nigerian helmer Obi Emelonye, the director of The Last Flight To Abuja, titled Onye Ozi (The Messenger) - a global online premiere, set for October 18. ++++ For Immediate Release ++++ Award winning director Obi Emelonye breaks new ground in Nollywood filmmaking with the upcoming premiere of Onye Ozi (The Messenger), a first-of-its-kind Nigerian language film set in London and performed exclusively in the Igbo language (by Nigerian and British actors). In yet another World's First for Nollywood, the Producers are uniquely premiering Onye Ozi Live In London on Fri 18th Oct 2013 and simultaneously Online to the ever growing global...
- 10/11/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Obi Emelonye's airplane disaster thriller Last Flight To Abuja, one of the most expensive and highest-grossing Nollywood films to date, said to be inspired by true events, is now available for global audiences to watch for Free on YouTube, via IbakaTv - an online destination for Nollywood cinema. So if you're been curious, given all the chatter over a film that we've been following for about a year now, here's your chance to check it out for yourselves. The longer description reads: A set of everyday Nigerian traveler’s board the last Flamingo Airways flight scheduled to fly from Lagos to Abuja on a fateful Friday night in 2006. The plane cruises at 30,000 feet, tranquil...
- 10/10/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
This is the kind of thing I'd love to do more of, if I had the resources. A series of profiles/interviews by Afrinolly (of the Afrinolly Short Film Competition which we covered earlier this year) of contemporary Nigerian filmmakers, including names that I hope you'll recognized, since we've written about them several times in the past, like Obi Emelonye (Last Flight To Abuja), Tunde Kelani (Dazzling Mirage), Kunle Afolayan (The Figurine), and others.In the individual profiles, each filmmaker talks about a number of items, including their latest projects, their processes, being Nigerian filmmakers in a global marketplace, the journeys they are on, where they're going/want to go,...
- 6/3/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Obi Emelonye's airplane disaster thriller Last Flight To Abuja, one of the most expensive and highest grossing Nollywood film, said to be inspired by true events, is now available for rent on VOD for USA audiences. So if you're been curious, given all the excitement over a film that we've been following for about a year now, here's your chance to check it out for yourselves. The longer description reads: A set of everyday Nigerian traveler’s board the last Flamingo Airways flight scheduled to fly from Lagos to Abuja on a fateful Friday night in 2006. The plane cruises at 30,000 feet, tranquil and on schedule. But like a bolt out of the blue, through a mixture of human...
- 4/17/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Hot off the presses, we've received some worthwhile info about Nollywood director Obi Emelonye's follow-up to his 2011 fantasy/adventure hit The Mirror Boy - a film we also covered on S&A, titled Last Flight To Abuja, the expensive (by Nollywood standards) disaster/thriller, said to be inspired by true events; an airplane suffers major mid-air problems which leads to a fatal crash. The film was released in Nigeria on August 3rd, and after roughly 11 weeks in release, it has grossed 22,979,553 Naira (about $141,849), making it The highest grossing Nigerian film in Nigeria this year. According to our sources, it's even beat out some...
- 10/18/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Last Flight to Abuja, the Nollywood hit about a near miss, delivers a fairytale ending in country with a dire air safety record
It is perhaps an unlikely theme for a blockbuster film in a country with a dire air safety record: a near miss in which a pilot steers a smoke-filled plane to safety.
In Nigeria, Last Flight to Abuja has become the first homegrown production to outsell Hollywood films this year. Crowds have been packing cinemas to see how the Nollywood fiction matches the reality of taking an internal flight in west Africa's most populous country.
The film took a record-breaking 8m naira (£32,340) in its first week on release in Lagos. It has toppled this year's box office hits The Amazing Spider-Man and Ice Age: Continental Drift, and is currently the second highest grossing film in west Africa after The Dark Knight Rises.
"Each time I fly in Nigeria it's a nervy experience.
It is perhaps an unlikely theme for a blockbuster film in a country with a dire air safety record: a near miss in which a pilot steers a smoke-filled plane to safety.
In Nigeria, Last Flight to Abuja has become the first homegrown production to outsell Hollywood films this year. Crowds have been packing cinemas to see how the Nollywood fiction matches the reality of taking an internal flight in west Africa's most populous country.
The film took a record-breaking 8m naira (£32,340) in its first week on release in Lagos. It has toppled this year's box office hits The Amazing Spider-Man and Ice Age: Continental Drift, and is currently the second highest grossing film in west Africa after The Dark Knight Rises.
"Each time I fly in Nigeria it's a nervy experience.
- 10/4/2012
- by Monica Mark
- The Guardian - Film News
Worth-watching CNN profile of Nollywood director Obi Emelonye, whose follow-up to his 2011 fantasy/adventure hit The Mirror Boy, titled Last Flight To Abuja (the pricey disaster/thriller, said to be the first of its kind in Nollywood, inspired by true events), is currently in theatrical circulation in Europe and Africa primarily. Obi Emelonye has been one of a number of key Nollywood directors pushing for the kind of higher quality and production values that will afford Nollywood product the same kind of worldwide respect as Hollywood films. Of most interest to Stateside audiences will likely be his mention about a month or so...
- 9/3/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Worth-listening to conversation with Nollywood director Obi Emelonye, whose follow-up to his 2011 fantasy/adventure hit The Mirror Boy, titled Last Flight To Abuja (the pricey disaster/thriller, said to be the first of its kind in Nollywood, inspired by true events), opened in London last week Friday. In the 13-minute interview below, courtesy of SmartMonkey TV, Emelonye talks about his latest film Last Flight to Abuja, of course; but he also dishes on Nollywood film financing, distribution and exhibition, existing in "2 worlds" (the UK and Nigeria), and on his next film project, said to be an ambitious work titled Safari. Of most interest...
- 7/2/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Dark Horse (15)
(Todd Solondz, 2011, Us) Selma Blair, Jordan Gelber, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Zachary Booth. 86 mins
Trust Todd Solondz to give us the flipside of movie man-childhood. There's nothing funny or adorable about 35-year-old Abe (Gelber), who lives with his parents, collects action figures and has no idea of his own uselessness. He meets his match (sort of) in the virtually comatose Blair, and what ensues is a romcom that's neither romantic nor comical, but beneath the misanthropy lurks some kind of compassion.
Killer Joe (18)
(William Friedkin, 2011, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple. 102 mins
Curdling Texan noir and melodrama in a bizarre, curiously fascinating thriller.
The King Of Devil's Island (12A)
(Marius Holst, 2010, Nor/Fra/Swe/Pol) Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad. 116 mins
Prison thriller set on a 1950s Norwegian borstal island.
Storage 24 (15)
(Johannes Roberts, 2012, UK) Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue. 87 mins
Minimal sci-fi thriller set in a London storage unit.
(Todd Solondz, 2011, Us) Selma Blair, Jordan Gelber, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Zachary Booth. 86 mins
Trust Todd Solondz to give us the flipside of movie man-childhood. There's nothing funny or adorable about 35-year-old Abe (Gelber), who lives with his parents, collects action figures and has no idea of his own uselessness. He meets his match (sort of) in the virtually comatose Blair, and what ensues is a romcom that's neither romantic nor comical, but beneath the misanthropy lurks some kind of compassion.
Killer Joe (18)
(William Friedkin, 2011, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple. 102 mins
Curdling Texan noir and melodrama in a bizarre, curiously fascinating thriller.
The King Of Devil's Island (12A)
(Marius Holst, 2010, Nor/Fra/Swe/Pol) Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad. 116 mins
Prison thriller set on a 1950s Norwegian borstal island.
Storage 24 (15)
(Johannes Roberts, 2012, UK) Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue. 87 mins
Minimal sci-fi thriller set in a London storage unit.
- 6/29/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Details in the press release below for our readers in London... After a hugely successful world premiere at The Troxy Cinema in East London in front of over 1300 guests, Last Flight to Abuja, the new Nollywood, disaster themed suspense thriller by award winning UK based Nigerian director Obi Emelonye, is now set to be released across 14 London cinema screens from Friday 29th June. Two of Nigeria’s leading companies Diamond Bank Plc and Zinox Technologies came together to support the premiere and in a touching tribute, the audience observed a one-minute silence in honour of the Dana Airlines crash victims prior to the screening of the film and the producers replaced the closing...
- 6/20/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
A project we first alerted you to in February is finally making its world premiere... It's being called one of Nollywood's most anticipated films of 2012 - Obi Emelonye's follow-up to his 2011 fantasy/adventure hit The Mirror Boy - a film we also covered on S&A. Titled Last Flight To Abuja, the expensive (by Nollywood standards) disaster/thriller (the first of its kind - an airplane disaster movie with special effects, shot with Arri Alexa digital cameras) is said to be inspired by true events; an airplane suffers major mid-air problems which leads to a fatal crash. The longer description reads: A set of everyday Nigerian traveller’s board...
- 5/18/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
News on the march…! Held over the weekend, in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State (Nigeria) on Saturday, March 26, 2011, the celebration announcing the winners of the 2011 African Movie Academy Awards (Amaa) – in just its 7th year.
This year’s nominations list boasted an even longer list of awards, compared to previous years, as the award ceremony continues to grow.
Viva Riva, a film I’ve touted on this website in recent days, after seeing it for the first time last week, rightfully dominated, winning 6 trophies, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Production Design.
The rest of the story follows in the table below, lifted from the Amaa’s website Here:
Category
Nominated Films
Winners
Best Short Film Bougfen – Petra Baninla Sunjo (Cameroun)
Weakness – Wanjiru Kairu (Kenya)
No Jersey No Match – Daniel Ademinokan (Nigeria)
Duty – Mak Kusare (Nigeria)
Bomlambo – Zwelesizwe Ntuli (South Africa)
Zebu And...
This year’s nominations list boasted an even longer list of awards, compared to previous years, as the award ceremony continues to grow.
Viva Riva, a film I’ve touted on this website in recent days, after seeing it for the first time last week, rightfully dominated, winning 6 trophies, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Production Design.
The rest of the story follows in the table below, lifted from the Amaa’s website Here:
Category
Nominated Films
Winners
Best Short Film Bougfen – Petra Baninla Sunjo (Cameroun)
Weakness – Wanjiru Kairu (Kenya)
No Jersey No Match – Daniel Ademinokan (Nigeria)
Duty – Mak Kusare (Nigeria)
Bomlambo – Zwelesizwe Ntuli (South Africa)
Zebu And...
- 3/28/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Over the weekend, as most of us were reveling in Academy Awards thrills and chills, the nominations for another major movie award ceremony were announced, many miles, across the Atlantic Ocean; I’m referring to the 7-year old (this year) Africa Movie Academy Awards (Amaa), which will be held in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State (Nigeria) on Saturday, March 26, 2011.
This year’s nominations list boasts an even longer list of awards, compared to previous years, as the award ceremony continues to grow.
I’ll have to thoroughly scrub this list to highlight as many titles as I can – especially in the feature film categories, and I’ll do that with individual posts over the next week, or so. In the meantime, however, I’ll quickly point out those few titles that we’ve previously given ink to on this website, that are nominated for Amaa awards, including the following: in the Best Diaspora Feature,...
This year’s nominations list boasts an even longer list of awards, compared to previous years, as the award ceremony continues to grow.
I’ll have to thoroughly scrub this list to highlight as many titles as I can – especially in the feature film categories, and I’ll do that with individual posts over the next week, or so. In the meantime, however, I’ll quickly point out those few titles that we’ve previously given ink to on this website, that are nominated for Amaa awards, including the following: in the Best Diaspora Feature,...
- 2/28/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Think of any major Hollywood star vehicle and, chances are, it premièred at The Empire, Leicester Square, one of Leicester square’s cinemas regularly used for star-studded, red carpet film premières and first runs in London’s West End.
And now, for the first time ever, a Nollywood film is going to get the Empire Leicester Square treatment when The Mirror Boy, a rites of passage family adventure film, has its world première there on Friday 24th February.
From the film’s official website:
“The Mirror Boy” is an enthralling journey through the picturesque terrains of The Gambia, as seen through the eyes of a London-born 12 year old boy, Tijani.
On the 13th of June and wholly out of character, Tijani gets involved in a street fight in which a boy is hurt. Convinced that Tijani needs discipline, Teema, his mum decides to take him to the Gambia to live with her sister.
And now, for the first time ever, a Nollywood film is going to get the Empire Leicester Square treatment when The Mirror Boy, a rites of passage family adventure film, has its world première there on Friday 24th February.
From the film’s official website:
“The Mirror Boy” is an enthralling journey through the picturesque terrains of The Gambia, as seen through the eyes of a London-born 12 year old boy, Tijani.
On the 13th of June and wholly out of character, Tijani gets involved in a street fight in which a boy is hurt. Convinced that Tijani needs discipline, Teema, his mum decides to take him to the Gambia to live with her sister.
- 2/20/2011
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
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