A CANDLE NIGHT FOR LATE ICON OF THE MOVIES AMAKA IGWE [PICTURES]

Amaka Igwe MFR ,a woman that touched NIGERIAN creative Art like no other person ,she lived and died a creator of arts and she majored in HOME MOVIES and TELEVSION SOAP.

A celebrated first class Nigerian filmmaker,a great writer, astute television producer, and entrepreneur, who died on Monday, April 28, 2014. She was reportedly working on location in Enugu, eastern Nigeria, when she took ill.

Amaka Igwe is One of the leading figures in the Nigerian film industry at the decisive moment in the 90s when the new cinematic form broke out, Amaka already had a track record in television as the writer and producer of the award-winning TV household serial called Checkmate.

She is Bold, big, clear-minded, cannily analytical and with a gift for the well-thought-out declarative, Igwe's presence was a commanding one. Her work on movies, best represented in Violated and Rattlesnake.

There was joy and not mourning as the Icon received a befitting farewell from friends and well wishers and even the weather was so friendly that AMAKA must have smiled wherever she is