EbonyLife Chief Mo Abudu to Get Series Mania Award – Global Bulletin
variety.comNick Vivarelli International CorrespondentMo Abudu, CEO of Nigeria’s The EbonyLife Group, will be celebrated by France’s upcoming Series Mania festival with its Women in Series Award.
The prize, given in tandem with the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (EWA Network) and advocacy group Pour Les Femmes Dans Les Médias (PFDM), honors a remarkable woman from the audiovisual industry for her vision and leadership.
Last year’s award went to Christina Sulebakk, general manager of HBO Max EMEA.Abudu has turned Nigeria-based EbonyLife — the upscale international Black TV network she launched in 2013 — into a multi-pronged media conglomerate that has produced more than 5,000 hours of original content, including the top-grossing Nigerian film of all time, 2016’s “The Wedding Party,” and multiple projects for Netflix.
Among these is the film “Òlòtūré” that exposes human trafficking in Nigeria. She will be handed her award on the evening of March 22 at the Forum’s Awards Ceremony in Lille.
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