While going through what no one has ever told you about the Frontline Filmmaker, Amaka Igwe… Let’s pray her soul continue to rest in peace… Amen… If you are really touched by her painful death, kindly pay your last respect to her by typing RIP in the comment box…
The anniversary to mark the death of frontline Nigerian filmmaker and playwright, Amaka Igwe has come and gone. Some close friends of her family gathered to commemorate her sudden exit in a quiet memorial.
The Enugu-born prolific film director and producer who died of asthmatic attack on Monday, April 28, 2014, and threw the movie world to grief was a leading figure in the Nigerian and African film industry until she died while on location in Enugu.
Many remembered her as the brain behind the radical transformation of Nollywood from a largely derided backwater industry to a leading one in the world.
Remembered as just ‘Amaka’, she mentored many film directors and screen writers including her contemporaries, the matriarch of Nollywood’s revolution was reported to has had her biggest joy as living to witness the United Nations through UNESCO rank Nollywood as the world’s second biggest film industry after Bollywood (india’s).
Amaka was the maker of several Nollywood hit films such as the ‘Rattle Snake’ and ‘Forever’ series as well as the soap opera, ‘Checkmate’, the sitcom ‘Fuji House of Commotion’ among others, Mrs. Igwe was the founder and chief executive officer of BOB TV and a Lagos-based broadcast organisation.
Along with her husband, Charles Igwe, they led Nollywood’s first international outing in Sitengi, South Africa, in 1998 and many subsequent outings in film festivals across the globe.
But the most memorable tribute to the deceased prolific filmmaker was made by her barely above teens daughter, Ruby, who seems to have drawn a lot from her mother’s creative writing endowments.
On Tuesday of 2015, Ruby wrote an emotional piece to mark the death of her mother exactly 3 years ago.
On Tuesday of 2015, Ruby wrote an emotional piece to mark the death of her mother exactly 3 years ago.
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