Malawi movie gets Africa Magic awards 2016 nomination

A movie by probably Malawi’s finest filmmaker Joyce Mhango Chavula, Lilongwe, has been nominated for the 2016 Africa Magic Viewer Choice Awards (AMVCA).

Lilongwe: The  Movie
Lilongwe: The Movie

Lilongwe, which was released in October this year, has been nominated for Best Film – Southern Africa.

Chavula took her feat to Facebook Monday saying she was excited about the nomination.

“I’m so humbled and grateful to the Lilongwe film crew. Malawi woyee! Go on and start voting for Lilongwe. It is free,” she wrote.

Voting for Lilongwe can be done through the following link http://amvca2016-awards.dstv.com/nominees/best-movie-southern-africa_1.

Chavula’s Lilongwe is up against Sara Blecher’s Ayanda and Akin Omotosho’s Tell Me Sweet Something.

The Lilongwe-based filmmaker called on Malawians to vote for her.

“It is all about putting our country on the continental map for good things,” she told Nyasa Times.

Chavula who was once nominated for Director for Best Feature Film courtesy of her movie No More Tears at the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) has resiliently said that she wants to continue producing movies, and “attract more women to the career.”

Lilongwe is a story of young woman played by Brenda Mselu who is a professional prostitute and has three children from three different men.

She has a decent day job but her main cash cow is the married men she sleeps with.

The climax is when she seduces and falls in love with a foreign married man played by Joab Chakhaza who is in Lilongwe on duty.

When his wife played by Chavula later comes to visit, hell breaks loose as Lilongwe’s past comes back to haunt her. Throughout the story according to Chavula, Lilongwe is saying, “don’t judge me, you don’t know my story.”

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Janjaweed
Janjaweed
8 years ago

Misonkho yatonyanya a bale, u shoud take into a ccount that most malawians are not doing payed jobs.

Kamundoti
Kamundoti
8 years ago

Immeneyo tiyione, otherwise we do justice in abstract.

ellina maonjera
ellina maonjera
8 years ago

WELL DONE!!!!!!!

penjani zulu
penjani zulu
8 years ago

Seriously, i like the whole nomination and all, but atleast make some clips from this movie so we appreciate…then the vote comes easy with love

favour
favour
8 years ago

ili kuti nanga tipaseni sample clips then tivota

yaz yaz
yaz yaz
8 years ago

chooonde yokhayi tisaibene

mfumu magombe
mfumu magombe
8 years ago

We can vote for the nomination but we need to see it first otherwise we may be voting for mediocrity.

Bongo
Bongo
8 years ago

inenso ndikufuna ndionele kaye befr voting… whre can we download???

super mario
super mario
8 years ago

tivota bwanji tisanaonere? thats y yo friends put on youtube

jojo
jojo
8 years ago

Tingaipeze kuti film yo

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