Ghanaian movie, ‘I sing of a Well' got the highest nomination for this year's AMA Awards to be held in Nigeria on April 10. This was revealed at the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) 2010 Nominations party held at the Grand Masvic Hotel, East Legon, Saturday. It was attended by some of the crème de la crème of the African movie industry, including Rita Dominic, Jackie Appiah, Adjetey Anang, Vivian Achor, Eddie Nartey, Ali Nuhu, Lydia Forson, Osita Iheme and a long list of others. The nomination party is organised ahead of the main awards ceremony each year, and this year’s awards ceremony will be held on April 10 in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The event also witnessed exciting performances from both local and foreign artistes Shariffa Gunu, Ben Brako, Edge and J Martins. It was spiced with a very splendid and colourful fashion show by the Exotique Modelling Agency. The President of AMAA, Peace Anyiam Asigwe in a speech emphasised on the need of retelling the African story the way it should be told. “It is important to remember where we are coming from and where we are going” considering the fact that Saturday was Ghana’s birthday and the remembrance of Kwame Nkrumah who stood for Pan Africanism. She noted that in June 2009, AMAA opened nominations for the 2010 awards and received over 500 movies. Nominations were closed on December 31 and a selected committee started working on the entries in January 2010. Peace said as the selection went through phases, the over 500 movies were reduced to 280. She explained the committee noted that most of the entries lacked quality and were also not labelled properly. The Minister for Trade and Industry, Hanna Tetteh, who was a guest at the event, urged movie makers to take cue from America who used their movies to impact change in society and country. When the nominations where finally revealed, Ghana’s ‘I sing of a Well’ made the highest nominations with 11. Other Ghanaian movies, ‘Perfect Picture’, ‘Heart of Men’ and ‘A Sting in A tale’ had 8, 5 and 3 nominations respectively. The strongest contender standing in the way of the Ghanaian nominations is Nigeria’s ‘Figurine’ which had 9 nominations.