Few weeks ago, Kumawood Entertainment and Concept Developers with support from major stakeholders of the film industry launched a new film festival ‘Kumawood Film Festival’ and award scheme ‘Akoben Movie Awards‘.
The event aims at rewarding Actors, Actresses, Writers, Directors, Producers, Technician and other personalities in the local film making industry in Ghana.
It is also to provide opportunities for film makers to have spotlight on their films and also aims at promoting, supporting indigenous Ghanaian film making.
Many players from that part of the industry have lauded the concept. On his part, half Ghanaian and half French actor cum director who is based in Kumasi, George Berthou has faulted the organisers for hurriedly launching the awards.
He told GhanaCelebrities.Com that, he felt the organisers rushed to outdoor the awards: “Definitely, I think the program and some of the things were not well put. Some of the things were not well arranged. The organisation weren’t well up to scratch.”
During the launch, there were issues with which language should be spoken. The launch commenced with English, until part of the audience asked for the language to be switched to Twi.
Commenting on that, George said: “The organisation wasn’t well arranged; it appears everyone was doing what they like. The whole thing was actually nice. One thing I didn’t like was that, they are actually trying to honour the society that we live in, so they could have spoken Twi throughout the process.” He said it’s one of the reasons why he thinks the whole process was rushed.
He also blamed the organisers for the boycott of the known actors/actresses.
The awards were launched without any of the top actors/actresses present. Its came out that, the actors were not happy with the organisers hence the boycott.
But Kwaku Twumasi, an Actor, Director and Producer who also doubles as the head of the awards committee denied it vehemently. He told GhanaCelebrities.Com that, indeed they extended invitations to some of them but the attention was centred greatly on the media.
Adding his voice to why the top actors/actresses in Kumasi boycotted the launch, George said the excuse that they were busy on set was neither here nor there.
“It was very bad that top actors/actresses didn’t show up at the launch. The organisations should have been done properly. How can you launch awards for some people and the people themselves were not around?” he asked, continuing that “The organisers didn’t do their homework well.”
He therefore advised that, though the new awards have been launched,Kumasi movie makers should not think of boycotting the Ghana Movie Awards. He believes that is big enough.
Even though George concurs, the concept “ isn’t bad”, he admonished the organisers “I think next time; they should take their time to put things in order before coming out.”
This light-skinned actor shot to fame with the movie ‘Love & Bullet’. He has many movies yet to be released. His mother hails from Ashanti Region of Ghana whiles hails from France.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR MOVIES TO THE AWARDS:
Pick, complete and return an official entry form at the offices of Joy FM,Accraand the office of the Akan Film Producers Association, Culture Centre,Kumasi.
Kumawood Entertainment & Concept Developers is located in Patasi, Kumasi, adjacent KSTS. Visit www.kumawood.com for more details.
Below Are The Categories For The Maiden Edition Of The Awards:
Best Picture [TV Series]
Best Actor [TV Series]
Best Actress [TV Series]
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Visual Effects
Bes Story
Best Picture [Movies]
Most Favourite TV Personality
Most Favourite Actor
Most Favourite Actress
Discovery of the Year
Best Twinglish Personality [Male]
Best Twinglish Personality [Female]
Best Directing
Best Film Editing
Best Screenplay
Best Light Man
Best Script
Best D.O.P.
Best Soundman
Best Marketer
Best TV Comedian
Best TV Comedy
Movie of the Year
The Most Promising Star
Best Traditional Movie
Best Producer
Best Original Song
Best Art Director
Best Cinematography
Best Wardrobe
Best Make Up
Best Production Manager
is agya koo tattoo for real?
@m/s, ask that again ooo… my dear.
@m/s, I dnt think so..LOL!I guess it just for fun..
lol agya koo got tattoo
Eh, Agya Koo, is that a building plan you have as a tattoo on your arm…???
dis george guy doesnt really look like a halfcaste is he sure dat his dad is from france?
@gaatje niks aan,
why are you saying that? is it by his skin colour or the fact that he like to mingle with locals unlike
other halfcast’s in Ghana (Nadia Nicole, Vicker plus others who are trying so hard to be white by not
speaking local language in public!!!
BTW his skin colour is that of natual mix-race person, most of the others bleach.
talking about whites only club in Ghana,…
why are we not acknowledging and rewarding Twi (local) movies and it’s actors and actresses plus people working behind the cameras the same way as the English speaking movies?!
why should there be differences?!?
ps: Agya Koo’s tattoo is fake… or it looks like it! 😀
So here is my thing, is this so-called award for kumasi based movies or for movies all over ghana…i am sorry to say this, but i agree with this george guy to some extent…if this launch is centered to local language in the country, then that name is SOOOOO WRONG…simply because Ghana has more than one local language…so everything cant be in twi…its not even in our constitution…I THINK THIS LAUNCH IS VERY BIAS….it need to have a name that represents all the local languages in the country…because I am sure there r movies in hausa, ga, and so forth…but if its only for movies JUST in kumasi, then OK…but if so, why is it that kumasi or ashanti ppl always want to do their own thing…this is just my opinion….these “lets do this and that” can only lead to chaos in the future…weren’t movies from kumasi or in local twi languages acknowledged at the ghana movie awards last year? what’s all this…smh