{"id":566687,"date":"2010-05-17T13:37:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/?p=10294"},"modified":"2010-05-17T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:37:55","slug":"african-movie-academy-award-winners-visit-ghana-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566687","title":{"rendered":"African Movie Academy Award winners visit Ghana Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghanaian  winners of the 2010  African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) have presented their awards to the  Vice President, John Mahama at the Castle, Osu. The group included Mabel  Germain, Elorm Adablah,  Adjetey Annang, Naa Ashorkor Mensah Doku,  Lydia Forson, Akorfa E. Asiedu and Ken Attoh. The delegation was led by  Judith Oluwole Kuwornu, the Ghana rep of the African Movie Academy  Awards. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=210222&amp;id=128955543688&amp;saved#%21\/album.php?aid=210222&amp;id=128955543688&amp;ref=mf\">View  Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/columnists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/amaa-winners-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"amaa winners\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><span id=\"more-10294\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Mahama, was happy to receive the group. He expressed joy  at the achievement of the Ghanaian movie industry at the awards  ceremony because according to him Ghana is taking back its lead role in  film production in the sub-region. He said Ghana set the pace in quality  film production several decades ago and lost its hold because of lack  of sustainability in the surge of home video production.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the country, the Vice President congratulated the award  winners and assured them of government\u2019s support in the coming years for  the industry. According to him, the second phase of the Private Sector  lead growth policy of government would be driven by the creative  industry. He promised better days for the creative industry under his  Government.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 19 nominations for Ghana at the 2010 AMAA, there were 6 wins  as follows: AMAA achievement in sound-<em> &#8220;I Sing of a Well&#8221;<\/em>;  AMAA  achievement in costume- <em>&#8220;I Sing of a Well&#8221;<\/em>; Best original soundtrack;   Best performance by an actor in a supporting role; Best performance by  an actress in a leading role; and Best director.  Ghana also got the  most coveted awards of the jury award for Best Movie by \u2018<em>&#8220;I Sing of a Well&#8221;<\/em>\u2019 and a lifetime achievement award to King Ampaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghanaian winners of the 2010 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) have presented their awards to the Vice President, John Mahama at the Castle, Osu. The group included Mabel Germain, Elorm Adablah, Adjetey Annang, Naa Ashorkor Mensah Doku, Lydia Forson, Akorfa E. Asiedu and Ken Attoh. The delegation was led by Judith Oluwole Kuwornu, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}