News: Fred Amata appointed acting Festival Director of the Abuja Int. Film Festival 2014

The Board and Management of the 11th Abuja International film festival say Fred Amata is the acting festival director of the Abuja International Film Festival (AIFF). The Nigerian-born film actor and director, media personality, and cultural icon is a 1986 graduate of theatre arts from the University of Jos. He was the second director of the longest running TV soap of the eighties ‘Ripples’. Fred is an award winning actor; for his heart rendering role in the 1996 sensational movie Mortal Inheritance with Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde.
He has worked with the several TV stations amongst them NTA, Clapperboard TV, and DBN Television. One of the most recognized screen figures in Africa, Fred Amata is a scion of the renowned Amata Film Dynasty that has produced some of the most recognized and celebrated names in African Film. He made his debut as an actor in the Award–winning TV series, Legacy in 1986.   In a career spanning almost three decades, Fred has earned directorial, acting and performance credits in over 150 productions spanning almost the entire genre of film, theatre, and cinema. Fred Amata has consulted for the UNFPA on the use of Nollywood (Film) Content for advocacy and was inducted into the Movie Makers Hall of Fame, USA in October 2009.
He will be receiving the baton of leadership from Mr. Fidelis Duker who founded the film festival almost 11 years ago and whose role will be in advisory capacity cum founder of the film festival. It must be noted that Duker has over the last 11 years developed and structured the Abuja international festival to an enviable height globally as the foremost and longest running independent film festival in West Africa. This year’s edition of the film festival is scheduled for the beautiful city of Abuja from September 23 to 26.