{"id":348648,"date":"2011-03-30T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/bad-night-for-nollywood-as-viva-riva-sweeps-africa-movie-awards-and-erratic-jim-iyke\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T03:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T03:57:00","slug":"bad-night-for-nollywood-as-viva-riva-sweeps-africa-movie-awards-and-erratic-jim-iyke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/bad-night-for-nollywood-as-viva-riva-sweeps-africa-movie-awards-and-erratic-jim-iyke\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad night for Nollywood as Viva Riva sweeps Africa Movie Awards and Erratic Jim Iyke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"170\">\n<p>                  \t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Click for Full Image Size\" onclick=\"window.location='\/image_preview2.asp?img=QmVzdC1TdXBwb3J0aW5nLUFjdHJlc3MtTWFybGVuZS5qcGc=';\" class=\"img1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/09c1c318image.aspx_.jpg\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Best Supporting Actress Marlene Longage and Viva Riva&#8217;s lead actor, Patsha Bay Mukuna Photo: MOLARA WOOD<\/p>\n<p><!-- news_468x60 --><br \/>\n<br \/>Congolese film, \u2018Viva Riva\u2019 has beaten features from across the continent to win Best Film at the 2011 Africa Academy Movie Awards, held Monday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Nigerian films were left floundering as movies from Congo, South Africa and Ghana won multiple awards in various categories. \u2018Viva Riva\u2019 was the top film of the night, winning AMAAs in six categories including: Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Director.<\/p>\n<p>A gritty rollercoaster of a film set in Kinshasa, \u2018Viva Riva\u2019 tells the story of a criminal who intercepts a lucrative consignment of fuel during a shortage, and the ruthless Angolan gang hot on his tail. Patsha Bay Mukuna, who played the charismatic Riva, attended the AMAA ceremony, alongside the film\u2019s Best Supporting Actress winner, Marlene Longage. Accepting the Best Film award, producer Boris Vanglis said, \u201cIt\u2019s a historic moment for us. This is the first film in Congo-Kinshasa in 20 years in Lingala (language).\u201d He paid tribute to the vision of the director, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, said to be away in Europe promoting the film. \u2018Viva Riva\u2019 has wowed audiences at international festivals and is now set for release in Britain and America.<\/p>\n<p>Another big AMAA winner was \u2018Sinking Sands\u2019, a Ghanaian film written and directed by Leila Djansi. It got awards in three categories including Best Actress for UK-based actress, Ama K. Abebrese. A story about domestic violence and love gone sour, \u2018Sinking Sands\u2019 also stars Haitian-American actor Jimmy Jean-Louis, a Best Actor nominee. Accepting the Best Screenplay award on behalf of Djansi, Jean-Louis urged for more collaboration between African moviemakers, noting that \u2018Sinking Sands\u2019, though a Ghanaian film, used actors and crew from several countries including Nigeria, Britain and Germany. A major presence at the ceremony, Jimmy Jean-Louis featured in at least four films nominated for this year\u2019s awards. The African American actor, Nate Parker (\u2018The Great Debaters\u2019), also attended the awards.<\/p>\n<p>Showing Nigeria pepper<\/p>\n<p>A number of South African films including \u2018Izulu Lami\u2019 (Best Film in an African Language), \u2018Hopeville\u2019 (Best Actor, Themba Ndaba), and \u2018A Small Town Called Descent\u2019 \u2013 featured strongly. Receiving one of the first awards presented on the night, a South African filmmaker jokingly promised that her country would \u201cshow Nigeria pepper\u201d. Much later, she was able to boast, \u201cI told you earlier that South Africa will show you pepper.\u201d Another South African film, \u2018Shirley Adams\u2019, won the Achievement in Sound as well as the coveted Jury Prize, for being the kind of movie \u201cthat doesn\u2019t come along all the time,\u201d according to juror, Ayoku Babu.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian filmmakers were left subdued as the night wore on. Only the Yoruba language epic, \u2018Aramotu\u2019 put up a decent showing, winning two of the six categories it was nominated for. Directed by Niji Akanni and produced by Femi Ogunrombi, \u2018Aramotu\u2019 won for Best Costume and was crowned the Best Nigerian Film of 2011. Accepting her award, the film\u2019s costumier Toyin Ogundeji said, \u201cI want to thank my mother who was the repository of all my search in costume.\u201d \u2018Mirror Boy\u2019 a film set in The Gambia but written and directed by Nigeria\u2019s Obi Emelonye, fetched the Best Young Actor award for its star, Edward Kagutuzi, a UK-based actor of Ugandan origin. The high production musical, \u2018Inale\u2019, was rewarded for Best Soundtrack, won by Bongos Ikwe whose award was picked up by his daughter and the film\u2019s producer, Keke Bongos.<\/p>\n<p>Erratic Jim Iyke<\/p>\n<p>A major minus of the award ceremony was the erratic behaviour of the show\u2019s co-presenter, Jim Iyke, whose cringe-worthy performance included homophobic and sexist remarks. At one point, he told co-host, actress Nse Ikpe-Etim to \u201cshut up.\u201d When in onstage banter he asked her to come to his room later and she asked what for, he replied, \u201cYou\u2019re a Calabar girl, you should know, now!\u201d Forgetting he was in front of an international gathering of the liberal arts for a show telecast live on Africa Independent Television (AIT), Iyke had earlier gone off on a tangent about gays and their \u201cweird\u201d ways. \u201cThere is something wrong. It\u2019s just wrong.\u201d It was left to Ikpe-Etim to say, \u201cOkay, that\u2019s enough. I must apologise for my colleague. There is nothing wrong with being happy.\u201d But she could only smile powerlessly as the actor\u2019s behaviour degenerated further onstage, reading his notes with dark shades on; and ranting about anything from an ill-timed defence of Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde\u2019s weight to women \u201cpopping pills\u201d to stay slim.<\/p>\n<p>The speeches<\/p>\n<p>In his speech at the ceremony, the governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, called on African filmmakers to tell positive stories about the continent. \u201cAfrica today cannot be portrayed as the dark continent,\u201d he said. The governor added that the \u201chorrendous impression\u201d created about Africa by the West, should be resisted.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the award for Best Visual Effects, filmmaker Kunle Afolayan canvassed for more support and corporate sponsorship for AMAA. \u201cWe should give AMAA all the support and we should embrace it. This is the only platform where African films can be appreciated all over the world,\u201d he said, giving testimony to the impact of the awards on his own career since his multiple wins in 2010 for \u2018The Figurine\u2019. The award ceremony featured performances by music stars including Tee Mac and his 10-piece band, Wande Coal, and the South African group, Malaika. Another performer, the hip-hop act, Doctor Sid, revealed that he is the son of Nollywood actor, Justus Esiri. Thousands attended the awards, held at the Gloryland Cultural Centre in Yenagoa. 320 films were submitted from all over Africa for this year\u2019s awards. 180 of these were features, from which the Jury selected 30 for nominations. \u201cWe received a stunning range of film \u2013 films that tell us moviemaking is alive and well in Africa,\u201d said juror, Keith Shiri, who represented the Jury Chair, John Akomfrah.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of the Africa Movie Academy, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, pleaded with corporate organisations in Nigeria and across Africa, \u201cTake us seriously. We are the reason Africa\u2019s perception is changing. The positive thing coming out of Africa is Nollywood. I need my industry taken seriously. I need piracy wiped out.\u201d At a press conference with the AMAA jury earlier in the day, Anyiam-Osigwe had told Nigerian filmmakers who like to snipe about not winning, \u201cIf your film does not win, it didn\u2019t win because it\u2019s not good enough.\u201d It will be food for thought for Nollywood practitioners as they mull over their poor showing in the seventh annual AMAA awards.<br \/>\n <br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span>Do you have a story\/gist for publication? Please email it to story@nigeriafilms.com   <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/09c1c318image.aspx_-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nigeriafilms.com\/news\/11128\/33\/bad-night-for-nollywood-as-viva-riva-sweeps-africa.html\" title=\"Bad night for Nollywood as Viva Riva sweeps Africa Movie Awards and Erratic Jim Iyke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bad night for Nollywood as Viva Riva sweeps Africa Movie Awards and Erratic Jim Iyke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Best Supporting Actress Marlene Longage and Viva Riva&#8217;s lead actor, Patsha Bay Mukuna Photo: MOLARA WOOD Congolese film, \u2018Viva Riva\u2019 has beaten features from across the continent to win Best Film at the 2011 Africa Academy Movie Awards, held Monday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. 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