Organizers of Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards, AMVCAs, M-net in
association with MultiChoice Africa have just named Kenya’s leading film
maker and script writer, Njoki Muhoho as the head judge for the 2016
edition of the prestigious award. Names of other judges are being
expected.
Speaking at a press conference that is currently going on, at the
ball room of Sarova Stanley hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, Regional Director for
M-Net (West), Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu, said, Muhoho was chosen to head the
panel of judges because of her vast experience in film making and as a
respected
practitioner who has been on the panel before as a regular
judge.
She was Kenya ‘s National winner in the MNET New Directions Africa talent search in 1999.
Throwing more light on the AMVCA 2016, Uzoukwu said, the organizers
have added new categories this year such as regional category to boost
the existing ones.
While calling on film makers across Africa to submit their works that
are produced and broadcast or publicly exhibited from October 1, 2014
to September 30, 2015, M-net boss noted that AMVCA is not a Nigerian
affair, rather African Oscar.
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