After a successful 8-day Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Award 8 (AMVCA 8), Multichoice, parent company of Africa Magic, kick off preparations for AMVCA 9 with a call for entries.
Dr Busola Tejumola, Head of Content and West Africa Channels, MultiChoice, made the announcement in a statement on Monday, February 20, 2023 in Lagos where she called all African filmmakers to submit their movies and films publicly exhibited or broadcast between December 1, 2021, and January 31, 2023, for the 2023 edition of the awards. She added that the entry portal would be open between February 20 and March 10, 2023
“To enter the awards, all filmmakers must prepare a 5-minute-long showreel, the video must be less than 300MB and submitted on the Africa Magic website, where the website will allocate a unique reference number to each completed online submission.
All films (aired in cinemas or otherwise), made-for-television movies or television series are eligible so long as they fall within the specified timeline’’ she said.
Dr Busola Tejumola added that “This year’s AMVCA will once again demonstrate our intentionality in spotlighting the tremendous talent we have in the African film and TV industry”