Kenneth Gyang is a young

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and was born in Barkin Ladi of Plateau State, Nigeria. He studied Film Production at the National Film Institute in Jos and screenwriting at

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's IMAGINE in

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. Two of his short films as well as a script titled "Game of Life" were selected for the

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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

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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

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as well as the Jury Special Mention at the ANIWA festival in

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. In 2006 he was profiled by the influential UK-based BFM magazine as the youngest film director in Nigeria. Kenneth has worked with the BBC World Service Trust directing their highly quality TV drama "Wetin Dey" which was recently presented at the International Emmy World Television Festival in

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. He has also worked with Communicating For Change as an Associate Producer on Bayelsian Silhouettes- a series of seven short films on

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

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Televista. In 2013, his debut feature film '' Confusion Na Wa'' produced by Tom Rowland Rees won the top gong - 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. Kenneths Feature Film confusion Na Wa 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

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(Yinka Edwards) and Nollywood Movie Award for Best Director (Kenneth Gyang).

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20090504094243/http://tdb.berlinale-talentcampus.de/campus/talent/kenneth-gyang/profile
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*http://www.africine.org/?menu=art&no=7066 *http://www.nollywood.net/vbee/showthread.php?t=880 *https://web.archive.org/web/20120626091709/http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/arts/2006/mar/15/arts-15-03-2006-001.htm *http://culiblog.org/2006/02/food-related-film-at-the-berlin-international-film-festival/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20090503025051/http://www.berlinale-talentcampus.de/story/48/1748.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Gyang, Kenneth Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Nigerian film directors People from Plateau State Nigerian film actors Nigerian entertainment industry businesspeople