Malawi produced movie, The Road To Sunrise, has been awarded four accolades at the Shungu Namutitima (Smoke that Thunders) International Film Festival of Zambia, as Best Picture, Best Director (Shemu Joyah), Best Actress (Mirriam Phiri), Best Cinematography (William Collinson). The festival took place from July 26 to August 3 in the tourist city of Livingstone, […]
YMinister of Information and Communications Technology, Henry Mussa has requested youth in the country to use their own skills and talents toe stablish businesses that could create jobs for them. The Minister made the request on Friday during the beaming of Shemu Joyah film titled “The road to shine” the event that was organized by […]
The Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAAs) in partnership with Africa Film Academy on 3 August announced nominations for the 2018 AMAA awards at an event which took place in Lagos, Nigeria at the Wheatbaker Hotel. This is the 14th year of the Africa Film Academy and 2018 nominations were highly anticipated as the awards will […]
Charles Shemu Joyah’s latest movie, Road to Sunrise which was premiered over the weekend in Blantyre, left the audience with mixed emotions of tears and joy as it vividly articulated a number of social issues that Malawians experience on daily basis. Joyah is also well known for his previous movies, The Last Fishing Boat and […]
Flagship FirstDawn Arts Films Managing Director, multi-award-winning Malawian filmmaker, Shemu Joyah famously known for his movies Seasons of a Life and The Last Fishing Boat is premiering his latest film, The Road to Sunrise. In an interview , the ingenious Joyah said the movie premiere will be on November 3rd in Lilongwe at Bingu International Conference Centre Auditorium and on November […]
If you thought GD and Rina were only good at rap music, then wait until you see the two putting their acting skills on full display as they star in a new Malawian movie “The Designer”. The love love film tells the story of a designer (played by Vinjeru Kamanga) who was dumped by her boyfriend Ryan (GD) who […]
Continuing where he left off with his award winning debut feature Seasons of a Life, Malawian filmmaker Shemu Joyah has scooped another first after his 2012 drama The Last Fishing Boat won the award of Best Narrative Feature Film at the just ended Silicon Valley African Film Festival which took place in Silicon Valley, California, […]
The Tourism and Culture Ministry has warned filmmakers in Malawi that it’s a criminal offence to “make, direct, assist or take part in the making of a film without a film-making permit.” The ministry in a statement published as an advertisement in the press signed by Secretary for Tourism and Culture, Fletcher Zenengeya, said those […]
Renowned Malawi film maker, Charles Shemu Joyah, has said Malawi lacks a market for local movies. He was speaking when he addressed students of the two-week long Film in A Box Training in the capital city Lilongwe organised by the pan-African Africa Movie Academy Awards’ (AMAA) on Thursday. Film director Joyah, who is famous for […]
When your first movie is as phenomenally remarkable as Shemu Joyah’sSeasons of a Life, it becomes inevitable that your next movie will be judged in comparison to the first movie. Which is what is happening with Shemu Joya’s second movie, The Last Fishing Boat. I have met Malawians who swear that Seasons is the best movie they have […]
‘The Last Fishing Boat’, a Malawian latest movie written, directed and produced by Shemu Joyah, will start selling in about four weeks, the film maker has disclosed. He said this Friday night in an interview with Nyasa Times during the movie premiere at Hotel Victoria in Blantyre. Joyah, whose company, First Dawn Arts, produced his […]
‘The Last Fishing Boat’, a new film by Malawian movie producer and director Charles Shemu Joyah, has won the first selection for screening in a competition at the Kenya International Film Festival. The competition started on 23 October and will run to 3 November in the Kenyan capital Nairobi and Joyah will be flying to […]