A 26-year-old Cameroonian-born movie director, Edgard Leroy died in a fatal auto crash on Saturday, which happened at the Sagamu area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The rising filmmaker won the award for the Best Indigenous movie (Yoruba) for his first feature film, Alaise, on May 14, 2022 at the seventh AMVCAs.
According to reports, Edgard was heading to a movie location at Ibadan when he was involved in the fatal accident that cut his life short.
His colleague, David Akande, announced the filmmaker’s death on his Instagram page on Monday.
Edgard Leroy was born on the 13th of July 1995, his friend David described him as an “amazing director, editor and motion graphics artist was the first from his country to win the highly respected AMVCA award.