Moses Inwang has won the ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best International’ awards at the 2020 The People’s Film Festival (TPFF) for his movie, ‘Cold Feet’.
Other winners include: ‘The Meeting That Shaped Amerikkka’ (Kristopher Adams, Joshua Austin) for Best Feature Film; ‘The Reading’ (Garrick Wade) for Best Short Film; ‘Ruth Maingi – Poker (Dancurf Brown of Kenya) for Best Actress.
Affirming the awards, Founder/Executive Director, The People’s Film Festival, Veronica Keit, acknowledged Moses Inwang for for winning the ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best International’, via separate email messages stating:
“Congratulations on winning ‘Best Director’ for your film ‘Cold Feet’ at The People’s Film Festival 2020 Virtual Edition. We thank you once again for screening with us at the People’s Film Festival and we hope to see you again next year!”
“Congratulations on winning ‘Best International’ for your film ‘Cold Feet’ at The People’s Film Festival 2020 Virtual Edition. We thank you once again for screening with us at the People’s Film Festival and we hope to see you again next year!”
Moses Inwang in a social post confirmed the award stating:
“Accolades . . . accolades . . . accolades!
We are proud and happy to be recipients of the Best International Film award and I’m especially proud to win the Best Director award at the just concluded @thepeoplesfilmfestival NY (Virtual Edition). Thanks to the organizers of this festival…”
The prolific filmmaker had in 2016 received a best international film award at The People’s Film Festival for his film, American Driver. Inwang’s award winning movie ‘Cold Feet’ is a 2019 romantic drama.
With a career spanning over a decade and half, Moses Inwang got his first movie credit in 1998 with the co-produced ‘Two Good Men’. In 2004, he started his production company Sneeze Films and kicked off with the movie ‘Save My Soul’. In 2008, he directed the movie, ‘Lost Maiden’, a film which brought the issue of female circumcision to the fore of social discussion.
In 2012, his film ‘Damage’ earned him the nomination for best director at the African Oscars held in Florida USA, while the film won the award for Best Film at the African Oscars Awards. In 2013, he won the City People Award for Best Director. His 2013 film Torn received nine nominations at the GIAMA awards in Houston, Texas and six nominations at the Best of Nollywood Awards.
In 2014, he is recorded as the first Director in Nollywood to receive two nominations as Best Director at the Nollywood Movies Awards. His movie, ‘The Last 3 Digits’ was nominated for best comedy at the African Movie Academy Awards AMAA in 2015 and was also chosen amongst the few selected Nollywood films that were screened to thousands of people at the Nollywood Week Paris.
In 2015, ‘Stalker’, another film written, produced and directed by Moses Inwang, raked in a 12 nominations at the GIAMA awards Houston and won awards for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Film categories. Still in 2015, ‘Stalker’ won the award for “Best International Film” at the New York film Festival. A romantic drama which premiered in Nigeria on 26 February 2016, ‘Stalker’ received 10 nominations and won 3 awards at the 2015 Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards in the United States of America.
