TIPTOPSTARS

Yibain Emile-Aime Chah aka Ancestor, Anurin Nwunenbom and Eka Christi are among facilitators training some 34 Tanzanian youths at a film making workshop currently going on in Zanzibar. The two-week workshop on Guerilla Indie Film Building is jointly organized by BinAM Studios (Achille Brice) and the Zanzibits Center for Film and Multimedia. “This idea is curled from Core Unit Group filmmaking technique developed over a period of seven years by members of this synergy,” Anurin told TIPTOPSTARS Editor on the line to Zanzibar Monday. At press time, Eka Christi and compatriot Anurin had just finished facilitating the general introduction to the Guerilla Indie Film ideology and acting. The workshop rounds off on April 30. TIPTOPSTARS will be talking to the Cameroonian facilitators who incidentally are some of the most seasoned and achieving contemporary film makers in Cameroon. The three were part of the Ninah’s Dowry project which has undoubtedly turned out to be Cameroon’s film ambassador at least for now. What an honour for Cameroon!

From Zanzibar, Cameroonian artists head to AMAA ceremony 

STOP PRESS: It’s a very tight schedule for Anurin Nwunenbom and Eka Christy. Both are en route to Yenagoa, capital of the oil-rich Bayelsa State in Nigeria to attend the 9^th edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards AMAA. They are checking out of another assignment in Tanzania to honour their nominee status at AMAA. Ninah’ Dowry, the movie in which Anurin and Eka starred secured seven nominations at this year’s AMAA (Best Film, fest achievement in a Screen Play, Best actor in a lead role - Anurin Nwunembom, best actress in lead role - Bufung Seikeh Vivian, best supporting actress - Eka Christi, bestcChild actor - Bodi Rolland Tamfu and best achievement in make-up - Willston Muluh). The event takes place on Saturday April 20. Good luck to Ninah’s Dowry and team!

Distributing the movies successfully is by record the biggest challenge facing Cameroonian film makers and producers. Even when some of these movies have been highly acclaimed quality wise, they have almost always suffered in the oblivion of the drawer. The ugly site of cartoons full of unsold movies is a common phenomenon at production houses, yet the problem hangs on. Fortunately, stakeholders have not been sleeping and have pledged to fight tooth and nail to put an end to this undesirable situation. Recently, in one of such moves to better the movie distribution situation in Cameroon, a workshop was organized. Taking place at the German Cultural Centre, Geothe Institute in Yaounde on the sideline of the annual women’s film festival dubbed Mis Me Binga, the workshop brought together female film makers and producers. Among them was CFI’s Itambi Delphine, one of the industry’s