{"id":15803,"date":"2016-01-06T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T07:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=15803"},"modified":"2016-01-06T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T07:33:44","slug":"actress-mhango-chavula-calls-for-more-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/01\/06\/actress-mhango-chavula-calls-for-more-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Mhango Chavula calls for more votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Actress Joyce Mhango Chavula, who has bagged a nomination in the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCAs), has called for more votes from Malawians.<\/p>\n

Mhango Chavula received a nomination in one of the newly introduced categories – Best Movie for Southern Africa for her film titled Lilongwe. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFor me to stand a chance to do well, I call upon Malawians to vote. I am calm and still thanking God for this nomination. But then it will even be great if I claim the award and this is why I am calling upon people to continue voting,\u201d said the actress.<\/p>\n

The nominees were announced late last year and the public voting opened immediately after the announcement and closes on February 26, 2016.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice Malawi Sales and Marketing Manager Chimwemwe Nyirenda has also called on Malawians to vote for Mhango Chavula to do well in the category.<\/p>\n

Mhango Chavula faces competition from Sara Bletcher for her movie titled Ayanda <\/em>and Akin Omotosho\u2019s Tell Me Something. <\/em><\/p>\n

Lilongwe <\/em>is a story of a 13-year old girl who later grows into a beautiful young woman but still haunted by her past.<\/p>\n

According to Mhango Chavula, the film talks about a very strong woman who had three children from three different men.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Mhango Chavula also received a nomination in the Africa Movie Academy Awards (Amaa) for Best Feature Film by Director for her movie No More Tears <\/em>but she failed to make it.<\/p>\n

The actress said that the film industry was progressing slowly but will finally get to the destination.<\/p>\n

\u201c2015 marked the launch of two film festivals, the Lilongwe Shorts and Cinema Malawi that\u2019s progress and I am looking forward to more exploits this year,\u201d said Mhango Chavula.<\/p>\n

She said being a woman in the industry and holding the positions of National Theatre Association of Malawi (Ntam) and Film Association of Malawi (Fama) vice presidents is a huge responsibility but she was happy to be there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to thank those who put me in the two positions for believing in me. But my greatest challenge is that there is no competition. We have a long way to go and as associations we have a huge task to inspire more women to take up leadership roles,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mhango Chavula said the creative industry still has many challenges citing among others lack of proper skills and inadequate funding.<\/p>\n

But she was quick to say that many artists are doing their best with the little resources they have.<\/p>\n

The AMVCA s which started in 2014 to celebrate the contributions of African film makers, actors and technicians are spearheaded by Africa Magic in association with MultiChoice and the headline sponsor Amstel Malta.<\/p>\n

The grand finale will be held in March in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actress Joyce Mhango Chavula, who has bagged a nomination in the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCAs), has called for more votes from Malawians. Mhango Chavula received a nomination in one of the newly introduced categories – Best Movie for Southern Africa for her film titled Lilongwe. \u201cFor me to stand a chance to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15809,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803\/revisions\/15809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}