Kenneth Gyang

Kenneth Gyang
Kenneth Gyang
Born	Plateau State
Citizenship	Nigeria
Alma mater	National film Institute
Occupation	Filmmaker
Notable work	Confusion Na Wa

Kenneth Gyang is a young

filmmaker in Nigeria and was born in Barkin Ladi of Plateau State

, Nigeria. He studied Film Production at the National Film Institute in

short films as well as a script titled "Game of Life" were selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus 2006 and "Mummy Lagos" was well received as an official competition entry. "Mummy Lagos" was also selected for the Sithengi Talent Campus as part of the Cape Town World Cinema Festival in South Africa

.

Honors and awards

His film "Omule" won Best Documentary Film at the 1st Nigerian Students International Film Festival in 2006 and "Mummy Lagos" also won Best Film at the Nigerian Field Society Awards organised by the German Cultural Centre, Goethe-Institut, in Lagos as well as the Jury Special Mention at the ANIWA festival in Ghana.

In 2006 he was profiled by the influential UK-based BFM magazine as the youngest film director in Nigeria. Kenneth has worked with the

AIDS

. His most recent work is Finding Aisha, a TV series he co-wrote, produced and directed for the Nigerian production company Televista.

In 2013, his debut feature film Confusion Na Wa produced by Tom Rowland Rees was highly acclaimed and went ahead to win the AMAA Awards 2013 for Best Film and Best Nigerian film, also the film went ahead in 2014 to win Nollywood Movie Award for Best Cinematography (Yinka Edwards) and Nollywood Movie Award for Best Director (Kenneth Gyang). It also wonn Best Film at the Africa Motion Awards in Bayelsa. Kenneth also won The Future Awards 2013 Prize In Arts & Culture. He directed the

AMAA award-winning film Blood and Henna about Meningitis in Northern Nigeria.^[1]

References

^ tudioweb (2014-10-18). "Interview with "Confusion Na Wa" Film Producer Kenneth Gyang". African Studies Association Portal - ASA - ASA. Retrieved 2022-07-28.

External links

[1] tudioweb (2014-10-18). "Interview with "Confusion Na Wa" Film Producer Kenneth Gyang". African Studies Association Portal - ASA - ASA. Retrieved 2022-07-28.

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