Dangarembga raises Zim flag high

The nominations for these awards have also for the first time been announced at FESPACO, the biggest African Film Festival, held biannually in Burkina Faso.
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s short film SHARING DAY was nominated in the (Best Short Film) Category for the African Movie Academy Awards, which were held last Saturday in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
At FESPACO, held in February in Ouagadougou, SHARING DAY was the only Zimbabwean production selected for the festival.
Back home, the actress Sandra Chidawanyika won the NAMA Award for her role in this film.
Another film that Tsitsi Dangarembga has written and directed last year was (I WANT A WEDDING DRESS) for which Charles Kapfupi in his role as the conning (Sugar Daddy) won the NAMA Awards for Best Male Actor last month.
The film has now been selected to the world’s biggest Public television conference INPUT 09, to be held nxt month in Warsaw, Poland.
Only three African productions were selected for this important meeting of  TV-producers from around the globe, and Tsitsi¹s film will be screened in the category (GOOD STORYTELLING).