Confirmed report from the President of the Film Producers Association of Ghana FIPAG to GhanaCelebrities.Com has it that, members of the association, wants to stop participating – sending their movies for nomination, in the aforementioned movie award scheme.
This news has actually been a silent grapevine for more than six months now, since Mr. Hackman Asare, President of FIPAG, took charge of the office as its President. Recently, GhanaCelebrities.Com gathered that a meeting was held in Kumasi and under the meeting, some members of the association, called for a total boycott of Ghana Movie Award.
For confirmation or otherwise, GhanaCelebrities.Com contacted Mr. Hackman and he said “yes, it’s true our members are agitating for such an action. They want to boycott the award. They don’t want to be part of it, as in send their movies for nomination; so we the executives of the association are also going to sit down to consider their concerns.
Also, we shall be organizing our own film award. We are still working on the modalities. The award will not be organized by FIPAG, because we are not event organizers, but we shall contract a third party company to do the organization. We shall surely organize our own award. That I can assure you.”
Reasons given by some of the members of FIPAG as GhanaCelebrities.Com scooped, alleges that Fred Nuamah is taking the image of Ghana’s movie industry for granted. They say Fred does not respect the filmmakers. He organizes the award shabbily. They also opined that Fred does not involve them properly in the organization of the award.