Tag: FILM

AMAA: Eyimofe wins five awards, including ‘Best Director’, ‘Best Nigerian Film’

Aminu Imam

Eyimofe, (This Is My Desire), has won five awards at the 2021 Africa Movie Academy Awards, (AMAA), including the prestigious ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Nigerian Film’ awards. Nominated in seven of the 26 categories, prior to Sunday’s AMAA, the GDN Studios-produced film also came out tops in the ‘Best Editing’, ‘Best Sound’, and ‘Best First Film by a Director’ categories. And present to pick up the awards was Chuko Esiri, who directed the award-winning Nigerian feature film alongside his twin brother, Arie Esiri. In the ‘Best Director’ category, the Esiri…

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NFVCB to clamp down on illegal film producers

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) says films from unregistered, illegal producers and directors will no longer be registered from January 1, 2021 Alhaji Adedayo Thomas, Executive Director, NFVCB said this on Wednesday during a meeting with the creative industry’s stakeholders on Enabling Laws and Strengthening of Professional Guilds and Associations. Thomas said that such producers and directors who were not registered with recognised guilds or associations and the board were considered illegal and would be given a window period of one month to do so before January…

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Delayed ‘Friends’ reunion expected to film in March, Matthew Perry says

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The long-delayed “Friends” reunion special is expected to shoot in March, actor Matthew Perry said on Thursday, a year after plans to get the cast back together were wrecked because of the coronavirus pandemic. “Friends reunion being rescheduled for the beginning of March. Looks like we have a busy year coming up. And that’s the way I like it!” Perry tweeted. The one-off unscripted special was supposed to launch the HBO Max streaming service in May 2020, but plans to film it have been repeatedly delayed by the pandemic that…

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