Ghana MovieAwards receives 96entries

Ninety-six entries have so far been
received by the organisers of the
first Ghana Movie Awards set to take
place on December 25 at the Accra
International Conference Centre.
The awards was launched on
September 30 and opened entries
for nominations in October. With
organisers closing entries, Prince
Tsegah, Managing Director of the
awards told Myjoyonline.com
Wednesday that they have received
96 entries.
He said the calendar date for this
year ’s awards was from October
2009 to October 2010 but had to
attach a "human face" by extending
the deadline to the first week of
November due to challenges faced
by some of the production houses.
The entries, Prince explained, came
from Accra and Kumasi with
Kumasi submitting about 50 movies
and Accra submitting the rest.
He disclosed that production houses
such as Venus Films and Sparrow
Productions submitted 6 and 3
movies respectively.
In all, 32 categories are up for grabs.
The awards will also seek to award
some movies from the West
African sub-region but Prince said
the awards is Ghanaian with about
96 percent of the awards going to
works in the Ghanaian movie
industry.
He also revealed that screening of
the various movies submitted will
begin Saturday, November 20 at the
Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra by the
Screening and Nomination
Committee (SNC).
Selected nominees will be submitted
to a jury and finalists will be released
for public voting (for some
categories) at an event at the Golden
Tulip Hotel on November 26.
The SNC will be made up of media
personnel and some major players
in the industry and may be headed
by veteran actor, Fred Amugi.
Reacting to allegations that the event
will be marred by conflict of interest
between Fred Nuamah, the brain
behind the Ghana Movie Awards,
and the event itself due to his close
relationship with some movie
producers, Prince said Fred was
only the executive producer of the
awards and that the event itself was
being organised by Image
Consortium with the result collection
being handled by PriceWaterhouse
Coopers.
The awards night, December 25,
Prince said, will be a star-studded
event featuring the crème de la
crème of the movie industry and
celebrities.
An international music star is also
targeted to perform at the event.
Story by Ernest Dela Aglanu/
Myjoyonline.com/Ghana