Director Leila Djansi was presented the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA, Los Angeles) 2011 Pan African Festival Choice Prize for “I Sing of A Well” at the 19^th Annual Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) held in Los Angeles.

“I am so very honoured to receive this prize, which I accept not only for me, but for producer Akofa Ejeani Asiedu, cast, and crew,” said a gracious Leila. “Making this film was a team effort, as it always is, and I am so glad I worked with a team that helped me turn my words on paper into an enjoyable film. I am so appreciative to BAFTA Los Angeles and PAFF.”

The prize, which is 100 DVD’s of the film was, was presented to Leila by BAFTA Los Angeles board members Katy Haber and David L. Simon.

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Hip Life artiste A Plus known in real life as Kwame Asare Obeng looks jaded in the musical realm. Though, still in the entertainment fraternity, he seems to have put a break on his musical career to launch his new found career in comedy.

Anyone meeting A-Plus for the first time will find his innocent and rather none serious face, his gentlemanly looks as well as his arrogant confident nature a bit intimidating. After getting close to him, he is sure to prove you wrong that appearance can be deceptive. He can actually make you laugh by his utterances.

A comedian can be defined as person who entertains through comedy such as telling jokes. Apart from this definition, being a comedian is not exclusively about telling just jokes.

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Ghana Music Awards 2011 ‘Best Rapper of the Year’ and ‘Hip Life Song of the Year’ nominee Guru is ready with the music video for his new single ‘Mmaa Kuo’

Listen to him Guru: “Every time I release a single, I try to impact society positively, hence in this single all I did was to touch on the wrong doing of many acclaimed young Christians’ in our societies”

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We decided not to comment on this Nadia Buari and her “teams” absurdity but rather do what most bloggers would prefer, that this “Blacklist” a celebrity struggling to keep her career by posting nothing on her and her work on this blog…

However, certain situations have brought the matter out into the blogsphere. If you have been sharp-eyed on here, you may have realized by now that nothing is being posted on Nadia Buari and we would not bother wasting our space with her.

In fact we do not intend to do so until we feel like we want to.  Forcing and begging us to be ass kissers? Hell No! 

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In season seven of Who Do You Think You Are, nine celebrities trace their family trees to explore the lives of their ancestors and uncover major themes in British social history. Who Do You Think You Are? tells the story of Britain through the extraordinary family histories of popular celebrities. In each episode, we join the star as they embark on an intense personal journey to discover their family past, and in turn understand who they truly are, the lives their ancestors lived, and their identity and place in their country’s history.

Celebrities featured in the series include one of Britain’s most durable entertainers; Bruce Forsyth, actor and singer Jason Donovan, who comes from showbiz parents who divorced when he was five and Hugh Quarshie, Holby City actor

Hugh Quarshie was born in Accra, Ghana, but moved to Britain with his parents as a small child. Hugh knows there is Dutch ancestry in his family, a reflection of centuries of Dutch influence on Ghana’s Gold Coast, but doesn’t know where that bloodline began.

Hugh starts by travelling to Ghana to find out more about this mixed heritage. He visits his Uncle Jimmy in Accra. Jimmy is the son of Hugh’s grandfather, William Reginald Phillips. He tells Hugh that his grandfather was a successful businessman, setting up a trading company. So where did he get the money to do this? Jimmy reveals that William’s mother was Anna Kamerling, who was half-Dutch and lived in a town called Elmina.

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Sometimes I wonder why celebrities get into such situations with the media. They must have people to advise them as to how to deal with issues especially when it comes to media, the backbone of their career. What are those people doing then?

The media is a powerful tool and if they turn on you, it always end in career destruction and yet celebrities over the years keep getting themselves into battles  upon battles with the media.

So often in Ghana, it is the female celebrities beefing all the time with the media. Being a woman myself, I do think they are allowing their emotions to carry them away. Things male celebs will hear or read and walk over it, women will bark and bark hard. Professionalism and career protection must be thought of first, not emotional jump starting all the time.

Juliet Ibrahim is picking up and she is doing great with her career at this point in life. Whiles others like Nadia Buari are finding it difficult to even get movie roles, she is getting  as much needed, even when pregnant, she was still offered one.

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AMAA 2011 nominations are out and “Sinking Sands” is leading from Ghana with 9 nominations pushing Leila Djansi into the “Best Director Category” and Ama K Abebrese into “ Best Actress In Leading Role Category”.

Yvonne Okoro has been nominated in the category of  “Best Actress In Supporting Role” for her role in “Pool Party” and John Dumelo makes it in “Best Actor In Supporting Role” for his role in “Private Storm”.

Ekow Blankson has also been nominated in the “Best Actor In  Leading Role Category” for his role in CheckMate.

Other Ghanaian movies that have secured nominations are “6 Hours To Christmas”, “Who Owes Da City”, “Elima” and “Hot Fork”.

Congrats to all the nominees!

Check out the full nomination list below…

Gospel musician Cecilia Marfo, High Life crooner Kwabena Kwabena and Hip Life artiste Trigmatic has come on top of the Ghana Music Awards Festival 2011 nominations.

They both grabbed 6 nominations each with their songs ‘Afunumu Ba’, ‘Dadea Anoma’ and ‘My Life’ respectively. The launch ceremony which was marred by the torrential rains had No Tribe, Castro, VIP and D-Black with 5 nominations each.

New discoveries Eazzy, Jay and Herty Bongreat both had four nominations each. The general public can now vote for their favourite artiste. Interesting, VIP’s ‘I Think I Like Am’ which was nominated in the ‘Afro Pop Song of the Year’ in the last year’s awards before they opted out has missed out and has been replaced by their ‘Away’ track.

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Eazzy’s “Wengeze” video was a massive flop and suffered serious criticisms from fans and other music lovers, especially GhanaCelebrities.Com readers.

I was expecting her “One Gal” video to come out and make a good impression but Eazzy and her Lynxx Entertainment crew have once again disappointed me.

It is far better than “Wengeze” but lacks the creativity and the catch attention-appeal to make it to any international platform. Who has been directing these videos?

The concept is a borrowed one; maybe the concept is too common or familiar in music videos and movies thereby making me not to see anything new or extraordinary with the video.

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This week an important milestone was reached for Ghanaian broadcaster and former host of Joy FM’’s Super Morning Show,  Komla Dumor as he began his new role as an anchor for BBC world News televisions prime time breakfast show segment, replacing Jonathan Charles.

Since joining the BBC less than 5 years ago, Komla’s career has made impressive progress. He started with presenting Network Africa for World Service radio and within two years became a lead presenter for the World Service’s flagship global radio program, the World Today.

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