One of Ghana’s best hands as it concerns movies, Ama K. Abebrese is
set to storm Nigeria for the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) 2012 in style.
The award which aims to recognize and honor African movie practitioners who
have distinguished themselves in their respective movie industries will hold in
Nigeria.
The actress has been nominated for the Best Actress in a leading role
alongside movie heavyweights like Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Uche Jombo, Yvonne
Okoro, Rita Dominic, Millicent Makheido and Kudzai Sevenzo-Nyarai. Ama has been
widely tipped to land this category as her recent works vividly speak for her
perhaps, one of the reasons why she features only in high budget movies.
Ama K. was in Nigeria last year
among the Ghanaian contingent that went for AMAA; she won the award for the
best actress in a leading role. Will she win it again this year? Time will
tell.
She began her career at YCTV (Youth
Culture Television) a charity training facility in West London as a youth where
the highlights of her time there was when she interviewed Hollywood
veteran, Harrison Ford and ‘Star Wars’ director George
Lucas. As if that was not enough, the alumnus of St. Mary’s University College,
Surrey moved
on to co-host the youth entertainment programme ‘Pass da Mic’, a show in
collaboration with BBC2, where guests interviewed included the former UK Prime
Minister Tony Blair, rocker Mick Jagger, and football
legend Kevin Keegan, whom she interviewed.
The
screen idol according to her management team will be very active and more
visible in Nollywood as she has seen the industry as a very viable and big
platform for professionals to hit it big, an ambition the darling of Ghollywood
is not taking with a pinch of salt.
This
year’s AMAA is been powered by telecoms giant, Airtel and will feature musical
performances from Tuface Idibia, Asa and Senegalese singer, Vivian with one of
Hollywood’s finest actors, Jimmy Jean-Louis as the event’s host on the night.
Morris Chestnut of The Brothers fame will lead other Hollywood acts to the
event.
Speaking
on this year’s AMAA, Ama K. Abebrese speaks of her expectations at the awards
‘’I expect it to be a very classy event with a lot of style and finesse, coming
to Nigeria for awards like this is always special and I really look forward to
enjoying myself, I hope to take the award home’’.
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