The African Movie Academy Awards are beginning to play a significant role in the promotion of film in Africa and this year, for the first time, they have drawn a competitive amount of productions from all over Africa to vie for what is destined to become the African equivalent of the Oscars.

The nominations for these awards have also for the first time been announced at FESPACO, the biggest African Film Festival, held biannually in Burkina Faso. It was there that the announcement about Dangarembga's film nomination was made.

At FESPACO, held in February in Ouagadougou, Sharing Day was the only Zimbabwean production selected for the festival. Back home, actress Sandra Chidawanyika won the NAMA Award for her role in this film.

Another film that Tsitsi Dangarembga wrote and directed last year, I Want a Wedding Dress, for which Charles Kapfupi in his role as the
conning "Sugar Daddy" won the NAMA Awards for Best Male Actor last month has been selected to screen at the world's biggest public television conference INPUT 09, to be held in May in Warsaw, Poland.

Only three African productions were selected for this important meeting of TV-producers from around the globe, and Tsitsi's film will be screened in the category "Good Storytelling."

- Source: www.zimbojam.com