AMAA wishes to announce the inauguration of the AMAA Short Film Competition for African Universities.

The Competition has been conceived to complement the AMAAs.

The AMAAs are barely half a decade old – but within this relatively short period, they have made a significant impact on the African motion picture industry. They have created vast opportunities for linkages, for networking and for interfacing within and outside the continent. This synergy has diversified and intensified the reservoir of creativity in the industry. It has, also, diversified and intensified the industry’s production capital resource base; and has, thereby, set in motion the onerous task of aligning the industry to the larger industrial sub sector of the continent’s industrial complex.

Unarguably, the aims/objectives of AMAA are already translating into direct and indirect benefits for the African cinema. Consequently, every edition of the AMAAs is as much a celebration of achievements in virtually every profession or trade in the industry as it is the most significant and reliable catalyst and barometer for the growth and development of the African film as an art and an industry.

The AMAA Short Film Competition for African Universities is in accord with the vision and mission of AMAA.

Aims & objectives of the AMAA Short Film Competition for African Universities

Through the AMAA Short Film Competition for African Universities, the Academy aims to:
1. Provide a platform for interaction by African universities whose curricula bear on the training of content creators for the cinema/broadcast industries
2. strengthen the support structures for capacity building in such institutions
3. Challenge and excite the creativity of the would be content creators in those institutions; and
4. Centre attention on the creative potential os such would be content creators.

Theme

For this maiden edition, the theme is: Renewal/Regeneration.

Duration

20 minutes.

Format

HD/DV-cam.

Eligibility/Other Conditions

1. The Competition is open to students who are at the time of production bona fide students of the University
2. The work could be an individual or group project
3. The entry must be made by the Department/University; and
4. A Department/University could enters more than one work.

Prize

The winning entry receives on behalf of the Department/University a complete range of production and post production equipment/facilities. The film is also featured at the subsequent AMAAs.

Closing Date

30th December, 2009.