In
a bid to recognize and award outstanding personalities in the movie industry,
the first-ever movie award ceremony is to take place in the Smiling Coast of
West Africa.
Dubbed
Special Movie Awards (SMA), it is scheduled to take place on 30 September 2016.
This
was disclosed recently at a press conference held at the Joint Officers Mess in
Kotu by Afrinity Productions.
The
movie award is out to recognize the work of film-makers and actors in The
Gambia.
According
to the organizers, it is to celebrate films made in The Gambia, promote
qualitative film content, and encourage the art of film-making, among others.
Afrinity
Production is a Pan-African specialist one-stop-shop interactive media.
The
successful completion of screening of the SMA 2016 film entries were submitted
by 24 film production houses, and after a weeklong screening by an independent
jury; based on the films submitted, the jury came up with three nominees in
each of the 15 categories.
The
production houses, categories and nominees are as follows:
Hopeful
Youths Advocacy Foundation
Zaidi
Entertainment Production
Maya’s
Production
Hero
Stars Movie Production
Climax
Entertainment Production
Vine
Yards Movies
Smiling
Coast Movie Production
Atlantic
Stars Production
A.J
International
Runway
Enter10ment
Trustars
Production
Mount
of Olives Film
GodGift
Film Production
WAX
Media
Jarama
Production
Sonko
Jileng Films
Tedungal
Multimedia
Sanxaanu
Kaggoro Film Kaffo
Don
Entertainment
AINTAC
Movies
Folonko
Drama Group
Black
Smith Media
Cinatrix
Media
State
of Films Production
