Pan African Film Festival to Represent at the “AFRICAN OSCARS”

Executive director Ayuko Babu and director of programming of the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival

Executive director Ayuko Babu and director of programming and general counsel Asantewa Olatunji will serve as jurors at the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), set for Saturday, March 26 in Yenegoa, Bayelsa.

LOS ANGELES – Fresh off the heels of the 19th annual Pan African Film Festival (PAFF), representatives from the film festival are heading to Motherland to celebrate the best in African filmmaking at this year’s “African Oscars.” Executive director Ayuko Babu and director of programming and general counsel Asantewa Olatunji will serve as jurors at the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), set for Saturday, March 26 in Yenegoa, Bayelsa. Babu and Olatunji were selected as permanent international jurors for this prestigious international awards ceremony.

“Asantewa and I are delighted to be representing the Pan African Film Festival at this prestigious awards ceremony,” said Babu. “We get a wonderful opportunity to see the best of African filmmaking with the option of bringing those films to our audience in the States.”

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