Alpha Sibbie, a Sierra Leonean, has on Monday October 5, 2020 recounted to Premier News his humble start as a personal assistant to become an award-winning Script Writer and Movie Director.
Sibbie hit the spotlight after directing, “Tribal War,” a movie that was banned because of public perception about its title.
Alpha Sibbie developed desperate passion for acting and decided to join a movie group where he started as PA (Personal Assistant) to his director Kenneth K. Moriba in Bo. Few years later, Sibbie directed his first movie (Fruit of Life) at the age of 18 in 2013.
In 2016, he was awarded best Screenwriter and best Movie Director at the Bo Entertainment Awards (BEA) just after the Tribal War saga.
“In July 2019, I was awarded best Sierra Leone movie director at the SLAAM awards in Maryland. That was two months after I received best movie director awards at Bo Entertainment Awards Vol 4,” he concluded.
Honorarily, he has also been awarded for his hard work at Bona Awards in Bo, and the following week bagged the award for best movie Director in Sierra Leone at the National Entertainment Awards (NEA) at Kimbima Hotel in Freetown. The following year he directed Land of Doom, an epic movie that had over twenty thousand sales across the country.
He explained that he developed a passion for the Arts and for writing at a young age, and back then had been well known for doing very beautiful drawings, and even wrote an unpublished biography at Junior Secondary School II.
After taking the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), he proceeded to Government Secondary School in Bo (Bo School) and after taking the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) joined the famous OBBA Drama group and acted in many plays during OBBA celebrations at the School’s campus.
He said that in June 2019, he traveled to Ghana with other film makers for a month of film making and media for peace training in Koforidua (Eastern part of Ghana), and added that the training was organized by Weltfilme.org in collaboration with YMCA Ghana, SLADEA (Sierra Leone), NEOL (Liberia) and University of Gambia (Gambia) .
He said that he is an author with many unpublished manuscripts and also a poet and a member of the Sierra Leone Writers Association and the Sierra Leone Writers Series.
By Ibrahim S. Bangura
8/09/2020. ISSUE NO: 7926