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The Africa Movie Academy Awards, popularly known as the AMA Awards, is an annual event to recognize excellence among professionals working in, or non-African professionals who have contributed to, the African film industry. AMAA was founded by Peace Anyiam-Osigwe in 2005 and is run by the Africa Film Academy. Often referred to as the “African Oscars” its most recent Best Film winners include Tug of War (2021) a Tanzanian political drama film; The Gravedigger’s Wife (2021), Five Fingers for Marseille (2019), a South African Neo-Western thriller; and Felicite (2018), a Senegalese film set in the Democratic Republic of Congo which won a record six awards.

AMAA is currently accepting submissions for feature, film shorts, animation, and documentary work for consideration in nearly 30 film categories on the occasion of its 20th edition awards show later this year.