The category for the AMAA 2018 has been renamed The Jibril Mailafia Award for Best Animation. The honour was granted to the award-winning film editor and animator, who was killed by unknown men in Jos, Plateau State.
The change was announced by the founder and CEO of AMAA, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, who said the Board of Africa Film Academy took the decision ahead of the 2018 edition of the award to honour the late animator because of his place as one of Africa’s shining lights in the area of creative animations.
“This young man was one of the leading figures when it comes to animations for movies, clips, and short stories. He has been nominated severally for the AMAAs and won in 2016 for the first time under the international award platform of the Africa Movie Academy Awards,” Anyiam- Osigwe said.
According to her: “Jibril was easily one of the top 10 animators in Africa – a crazy editor, a fantastic crew member, a no stress team player, the vicious death is a wake-up call for us to speak out. We create things, it is time we used our voices in film, music, dance to shout loud and clear that these unnecessary killings should stop.”
Jibril Mailafia’s work, Group Foto, was nominated in the animation category in this year’s award which is scheduled to take place in Kigali, Rwanda on 20 October 2018.
