AKINTAYO ABOUNDUNRIN WINS AMAA MEDIA RECOGNITION AWARDS

AKINTAYO ABOUNDUNRIN WINS AMAA MEDIA RECOGNITION AWARDS

Arts and Entertainment Editor of CITY VOICE, Akintayo Abodunrin, at the weekend emerged winner of the maiden Africa Movie Academy Awards Media Recognition Awards.

Abodunrin, who is also a columnist for Sunday Tribune, was announced winner of the award with a cash prize of $3,000 at the Africa Film Academy Charity and Praise Night held at Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

His winning entry was titled ‘Catalyst to greatness: How AMAA aided their rise to the top’.

It was described by Dr. Ifeoma Amobi of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, one of the three judges that screened the entries as the work that ”captures and embodies the very reason for the existence of AMAA as an enabler of professionalism and success for motion picture practitioners. AMAA celebrates creative and artistic excellence and winning an AMAA awards catapults winners to a new height in their careers. Akintayo’s entry interrogates and reviews the progression in the careers of past winners of AMAA in the last 10 years and the impact the award had on each and every one of them using their own testimonies. It was delivered in a very lucid and elegant language devoid of any ambiguity.”

From left; Collins Ukaonu, Isabella Akinseye, Akintayo Abodunrin, Funke Osae-Brown and Biodun Kupoluyi

Chair, AMAA 2014 jury, Steve Ayorinde and Thisday newspaper columnist, Mrs. Onoshe Nwabuikwu, were the other judges.

Funke Osae-Brown of Businessday whose entry was titled ‘Peace Anyiam-Osigwe on a show beyond the continent’ came second and was given $2,000 for her effort while Biodun Kupoluyi of E247 Magazine and Isabella Akinseye of Nolly Silverscreen, joint third, were given $1,500 each.

Collins Ukaonu of Galaxy Television and Njenga Micugu of Nairobi Digest won the two consolation prizes of $1,000 each.

The AMAA Media Recognition Awards was designed to celebrate journalists in Africa who have helped to project the awards and the motion picture industry to the rest of the world.