Ayade to receive Hollywood Image Award
In recognition of his pragmatic leadership style and his several developmental initiatives, Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival (HWMFF), will on September 10, 2016, bestow on the Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade, with an Image Award.
The Image Award which is the magazine’s highest category award is scheduled to hold at the iconic Nokia Center, Los Angeles during the annual Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festivals.
The award is coming few weeks after the state government announced the establishment of its own film industry known as Callywood, with auditioning already commenced.
Organizers of the Festival led by the Publisher, Mr. Prather Jackson, who communicated this in a letter to Governor Ayade said: “Indeed Prof. Ben Ayade is well deserving of this award.”
According to him, “We are impressed by Governor Ben Ayade’s great works which include Callywood Film Industry, the superhighway, monorail, Carnival Calabar and most overwhelmingly, the Calabar Garment factory which is said to be the largest in Africa.”
Continuing, he explained that “Governor Ayade’s incorporation of Callywood film industry and appointment of Turning Point film producer Egor Efiok, to run. It is of immense joy to us. it is in line with what we do over here and we are looking forward to collaborations and to visit Calabar to cover the making of first Callywood film.”
Commenting on the perception of the state’s image outside the country, the publisher said: “We also understand that Governor Ayade is publicly rated as the performing governor in Nigeria and HWMFF is truly honoured to have him as our special guest of honour.”
According to Jackson, “We intend to use this opportunity to educate our audience about Cross River State, with special focus on Governor Ayade’s achievements and as well as the various tourism events of his ministry of culture and tourism industry.”
Offering insight into the award, Jackson disclosed that “We will feature everything in our special film festival magazine edition with Governor Ayade on the cover holding the Image Award. We envision that this would garner more general interest in Governor Ayade, who doubles as the
Commissioner of Culture and Tourism and the Governor of Cross River State. “He is the only governor in Nigeria nicknamed the “Digital Governor” because of his digital approach to governance,” he added.
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