Ghana Movie Awards organizer Fred Nuamah has exhibited profound unseriousness with the organization of the scheme since its inception in 2010 because filmmakers have failed to hold him accountable, Eddie Nartey has observed.

In the midst of concerns that the scheme has been characterized by poor management, lack of transparency, lack of credibility and lackluster organization of the main event, the filmmaker who was adjudged Best Writer at last year’s edition in an interview with Delay said Mr. Nuamah would sit up if his colleagues boycott the event.

“I’ve not received my plaque yet,” he said and wondered, “Will they even give them to us?”

“I think you should be given your plaque when you win. But the narrative is different here. It is not funny. I blame the people who go and sit there and be part of it. If the organizer organizes and nobody attends, he will think, won’t he? It’s a partnership so it has to suit us, it has to be beneficial to us,” he stated.

“If Ghana Movie Awards has been held for nine years and at this time, I still don’t have my plaque, it doesn’t even speak well of the awards scheme. I don’t blame the organisers so much; I blame we the actors that are also not making the demand for us to be treated well,” Mr. Nartey emphasized. 

The 2019 Ghana Movie Awards was marred by a number of incidents with the topmost being the sound technician’s decision to ‘kill’ the sound just as the MC for the event came on stage due to a debt owed him by the organisers.

Like several shows organized in the country, the event commenced late – more than 4 hours behind schedule – and muddying the waters for the organisers was the technician’s insistence that he is paid some arrears amounting to GH¢1,500 before he provides sound for the occasion.

Source: www.ghanaweb.com