At last weekend’s
AFRIFF awards night held at Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos, BBA regular
host IK Osakioduwa who anchored the glamorous event with Rita
Dominic had called out the ex-beauty queen, all for the purpose of
selecting a winner of the award through lucky dip. After all said and
done, Rita Dominic emerged the lucky winner beating Stephanie Okereke, Omoni
Oboli, Genevieve Nnaji and others who were also nominated for the award. But
Ini Edo’s name was conspicuously missing during the lucky dip.
Interestingly,
this happened to be the first time, where a winner would emerge in an
international contest of this magnitude through lucky dip. But for IK,
the organisers decided to adopt that means as the sponsors insisted on
giving out the award to a winner, no matter the odds.
By
winning the award, Rita Dominic will be flown to the Tribeca Film Festival,
billed to hold in New York next year, by Arik Airline.
Apart
from the Best Actress award, there were also winners in other categories of
indigenous awards instituted by the airline. They were ace-film maker,
Mahmood Ali-Balogun, whose “Tango with Me” remains one of the best movies ever
shot by a Nigerian, won the Best Producer of the Year, and actor Desmond Elliot
who won the Best actor award.
Kenyan
Jane Murago-Munene’s “The Unbroken Spirit”won the Best Documentary category
while Le Parrian by Pale Sie Lazare won in the area of Best Animation.
The
Viewers’ choice award, awarded in terms of feedback of the audience concerning
movie screened in the course of the festival, went to The Education of Auma
Obama while Niji Akanni’s Aramotu lift the country at the event by
winning the Best Feature Film prize, considered to be the most coveted
award of the whole lot.
The
film beat such films as Lancelot Imasuen’s epic film “Ädesuwa’, “Better Mus
Come’by a Jamaican director, Storm Saulter, “Elza’s Happiness” directed
by Marietter Monpierre from France amongst other films to cliche the prize.
The
awards night was graced by a galaxy of celebrities across the world who dressed
to kill. Mostly Nollywood super actors and actresses were the cynosure of
attraction at the event. Kate Henshaw, Genevieve Nnaji, Stephanie Okereke,
Omoni Oboli, Ini Edo, Monalisa China, Nse Etim Ipe, Rita Dominic, Omoni Oboli,
Uche Nnanna, Amaka Igwe, Celine Loaderand, Desmond Elliot, Kunle Afolayan, OC
Ikeje, and a host of others.
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