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Abuja 2014 Press Release
Award
winning Actor/Director Fred Amata appointed acting Festival Director of the
Abuja International Film Festival.
The
Board and Management of the 11th Abuja International film festival are pleased
to announce the appointment of Mr. Fred Amata a Nigerian-born film actor and
director, media personality, and cultural icon as the ACTING FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
of the ABUJA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Fred Amata is a 1986 graduate of
theatre arts from the University of Jos. He was the second director of the
longest running TV soap of the eighties Ripples. An award winning actor; for
his heart rendering role in the 1996 sensational movie Mortal Inheritance with
omotola jalade ekeinde. He has worked
with the several TV stations amongst them NTA, Clapperboard TV, and DBN
Television.
One
of the most recognized screen figures in Africa, Fred Amata is a scion of the
renowned Amata Film Dynasty that has produced some of the most recognized and
celebrated names in African Film.
He
made his debut as an actor in the Award–winning TV series, Legacy in 1986. In a career spanning almost three decades,
Fred has earned directorial, Acting and performance credits in over 150
productions spanning almost the entire genre of film, theatre, and cinema.
He
has won the coveted Nigerian Best Actor Award (Mortal Inheritance, 1997), Best
Director Award (Light and Darkness, 2002), and several other awards and
recognitions including: The
Afro-Hollywood Awards for Outstanding Performance, London (1999); Outstanding
Performance and Contribution to the Nigeria Film Industry, Washington DC (April
2004) and Nollywood Ambassadors Award, Kenya (May 2010).
Fred
Amata has consulted for the UNFPA on the use of Nollywood (Film) Content for
advocacy and was inducted into the Movie Makers Hall of Fame, USA in October
2009.
When
off set, Fred is an ardent football, scrabble and chess player who loves music
and dancing, traveling and discovering peoples of the world and their culinary
delights!
He
will be receiving the baton of leadership from Mr. Fidelis Duker who founded
the film festival almost 11 years ago and whose role will be advisory capacity
cum founder of the film festival. It must be noted that Duker has over the last
11 years developed the Abuja international festival to an enviable height
globally as the foremost and longest running independent film festival in West
Africa.
According
to the head Media Communications of the film festival Mr. Louis Okpoto, Mr.
Amata will be leading a team of creative individuals as the Acting Festival
Director of the 11th Abuja International Film Festival whose theme is 100 years
of Films in Nigeria….A Retrospective. The 11th edition of the film festival is
billed for the 23rd to 26th of Abuja
SHARON STONE
