Africa Magic Set to Unveil Nominees for Eigth Edition of AMVCAs

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On Saturday, 19 March nominees for the eighth edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards will be unveiled in a special broadcast on all Africa Magic channels on DStv from 22:00.

Nollywood actors, Adesua Etomi-Wellington and Daniel Etim-Effiong, will announce the nominees in all 33 categories for this edition.

MultiChoice Zimbabwe’s Publicity and Public Relations manager Liz Dziva said a good number of quality entries were received from across the continent and for this edition, Africa Magic announced a new category for Best Online Social Content Creator.

The return of the Best Africa Magic Original Drama Series and Best Africa Magic Original Comedy Series was also announced,  bringing the total number of categories to 33. 12 categories will be open to viewers’ vote and 21 decided by the AMVCA panel of judges headed by veteran filmmaker, Victor Okhai. Some of the other categories include Best Movie in Southern, East and West AfricaBest Director, and Best Cinematographer.

“Zimbabweans can join the conversation using the hashtag #AMVCA8 and follow @africamagictv for live tweets. The full list of nominees will be published on the Africa Magic website following the announcement,” said Dziva

For more information about the 8th AMVCAs and other Africa Magic programming, please visit www.africamagic.tv