FIPAG TO CHARGE MEMBERS ..READ WHY

After ordering members not to submit any of
their works for the just ended Ghana Movie
Awards, Steve Asare Hackman , President of the
Film Producers Association of Ghana ( FIPAG ) ,
has disclosed that the executive body of the
association will descend heavily on members who
defied their order.
According to Mr Hackman , FIPAG last year
issued a statement dissociating itself from the
Ghana Movie Awards and also instructing all its
members not to submit their works for the
Ghana Movie Awards (GMA ).
“ We cannot prevent our members from
attending, it is an event and anyone can
attend . We noticed that some of our members ’
names were mentioned and we the executives
were looking from afar with eagle eyes just to
see which of our members would have gone on
stage to receive an award . FIPAG will descend
hardly on any of our members who defied our
directive and went ahead to submit their works .
Sanctions would be issued against all such
persons , ” Mr Hackman told News One.
But News One can confirm that two movies –
Bachelors and Sisters at War — from Abdul
Salaam Mumini , a staunch FIPAG member , got
nominated at the 2014 GMA .
The FIPAG boss stated that the association had
to take that harsh decision to dissociate itself
from the GMA due to how poorly its executive
body had been treated in the past by Fred
Nuamah , the organiser of the event.
He however disclosed that FIPAG had signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU ) with the
Multimedia Group Limited to help organise the
Ghana Film Festival and Awards which would
entirely be different from GMA .
“ Around November last year , FIPAG signed an
MoU with the Multimedia Group Limited to help
organise the Ghana Film Festival and Awards.
There will be festivals that will start from the
Northern Region right down to the south, before
the award event itself, ” he said .