The Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) were founded in 2005 to recognise and reward Nigerian films. Slowly it is becoming a continental affair with plans to establish a continental film fund to keep African cinema alive.
Forty years ago the Pan African film and television festival Fespaco was founded. On this occasion, Kenyan film critic Ogova Ondego examines the state of affairs in the African film sector.
Travels, Transit is the theme of the fourth edition of Amakula Kampala International Film Festival, which runs at Uganda National Theatre and in thirty video halls around Kampala May 3-13, 2007
Ezra, a feature film by France-based Nigeria-born Newton Aduaka, won the Etalon D'or de Yennenga for best feature film at the 20th edition of Fespaco. This Pan African Film and Television Festival took place in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in March 2007.