Zim actress film ‘Blackout’ nominated for NAACP award
A Netflix short film Blackout starring Hollywood-based Zimbabwean actress Sibongile Mlambo (pictured) is up for 53rd NAACP Image Award, GreedySouth reports.
Blackout is a sci-fi film directed by Andrew Reid, starring Mlambo as Stephanie Tyler — an astronaut who finds herself battling for command, facing unknown forces intended to destroy her while on a routine mission.
Blackout was nominated for outstanding Short-Form film (Live Action) alongside Aurinko in Adagio (Universal Pictures), The Ice Cream Stop (Walt Disney Studios), These Final Hours (Universal Pictures) and When The Sun Sets (Lakutshon’ Ilanga) (Universal Pictures)
Nominees for the annual award show were announced during a special virtual event hosted by actor and musician Kyla Pratt, Black-ish actor Marcus Scribner and singer-songwriter Tinashe on the NAACP’s Instagram account.
“We are thrilled to recognise this year’s nominees, who have all brought dynamic, entertaining, and thought provoking content to our attention through their incredible work in film, television, music and more,” said Karen Boykin-Towns, Image Awards committee chairperson.
Winners will be revealed during the annual ceremony, hosted by seven-time Image Award winner Anthony Anderson, on February 26. The two-hour live TV special begins at 8pm on BET . It will proceed without an in-person audience due to the everchanging developments with Covid-19.
The NAACP Image Award is an annual awards ceremony presented by the USbased National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) to honour outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature.
Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the over 40 categories of the Image Awards are voted on by the award organisation’s members (in this case, NAACP members).
The award ceremony was first organised and presented on August 13, 1967, by activists Maggie Hathaway, Sammy Davis Jr and Willis Edwards, all three of whom were leaders of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. — Greedy South.