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Earlier this month, Ghanaian ace Director/Scriptwriter Shirley Frimpong Manso was recognized by the BBC and invited her to join the list of their shortlist of remarkable individuals who have won awards around the world for 2010. This list featured outstanding people in their chosen field; from Medicine to Entertainment.
At the BBC World Studios in London, Ms Shirley Frimpong Manso of Sparrow Productions talked about the African Movie Academy Award Winning movie “Perfect Picture”, movie production in Africa-the setbacks and the optimism.
On Christmas Day, the Ghana Movie Awards will roll out at the Accra International Conference Centre. The award is dubbed the party of the season, this is because half of the seats at the venue has been allotted for the movie makers, that’s actors, actresses, directors, producers as well as behind the scene professionals and crews.
The awards scheme is put together to award excellence in the movie making industry in Ghana. The Ghana Movie Industry has seen a great improvement and it is appropriate that people who helped or people who are still helping are awarded for their great work.
There is no better time to award them than now. The venue will be filled with both crème la de crème from Nollywood and Ghana industry players. As we wait for the day to know who wins what, let me run through my predictions. Predictions are predictions, they don’t really come to pass so I don’t expect anybody to comment out of context, remember you are also free to predict.
In football, there is win, lose and draw but in this one, it’s only about two things; winners and those who will not win (I didn’t use losers for a reason, because the fact that you have been nominated means they are already a winner).
After Sparrow Production ushered us into Christmas with their remarkable “6 Hours To Christmas”, Zedec Entertainment Films was to hit our screens with another well written and directed Christmas movie “MASQUERADES” which features the veteran Actor “Katawere” alongside Desmond Elliot, Lydia Forson, Anang Adjety, Senanu Gbedawuo and others.
Heavyweight hiplife trio – Vision In Progress (VIP)- has denied that one of its members, Prodigal, was last Friday caught in an erotic position with someone’s girlfriend at Zenith University College in Accra.
Reports say Prodigal, known in private life as Joseph Nana Ofori, was with the pretty-faced Jasmine Seyram Akortsu, winner of Face of Tertiary 2009, when her boyfriend banged into the room and started raising hell. The guy, whose name was simply given as Felix, was said to have got angry and physically assaulted Jasmine, while Prodigal tried to separate the two.
A source at the La District Police Station told ‘News One’ that the case was reported last Friday evening and both Felix and Jasmine were detained briefly. Te police source added that though Prodigal’s name came up in the case, it could not be confirmed that he was dating Jasmine or that the two were caught in the erotic position. ‘News One’ gathered that after Felix assaulted Jasmine, he also seized her car keys to prevent her from leaving campus as he raised an alarm to gather more students to witness the scene.
He however gave the car keys to a friend who handed it over to Jasmine and just when she was about to drive out of the school, Felix was reported to have stood in front of the car, daring her to move. “It was like a Hollywood movie. Jasmine moved the car with such speed that if the guy had had not jumped, he would have died. But he hanged on to the bonnet and she kept driving till she moved out of campus and turned left heading towards Formula 1 Race way while the guy was still hanging on to the bonnet. “What saved the situation was that there was a Police Checkpoint on the road and she was forced to stop. So the two were taken to the police station and locked up,” a student eyewitness source told ‘News One’.
The much anticipated enchanting Ghanaian Movie Awards will be taking place at the Dome, Accra International Conference Centre on Saturday ,25th December, 2010 and some of the best in the industry will be battling head to head to win their various nominated categories.
I have listed below four categories which have some of the industry’s big whips for you to make your predictions. Who takes which category? I have made my own predictions after each nomination. What are yours?
The Ghana Music industry has grown and continues to grow. The number of musicians keeps increasing on daily basis. People who are still feeding on their mum’s breast even say they are born musicians. This has put pressure on the handful of sound engineers around.
Just when other sound engineers are increasing their studio recording sessions, Richie is about to do something people will consider unthinkable, but according to him, he is doing this to forestall the rumour that he charges high fees when recording for an artiste.
Richie Mensah of Lynx Entertainment with the sensation ‘You know the name right’ and ‘It’s a hit meeeeen’ has disclosed to GhanaCelebrities.com that he has decided to give out free beat every month commencing this month.
Richie is a sound engineer and owns the one of the youngest label Lyxn Entertainment. He has produced hits after hits for mostly the established hip life artistes in the country.
His works has been acknowledged and accepted outside the shores of Africa. At his young age, he has in his repertoire, two Ghana Music Awards Sound Engineer of the Year awards; 2009 and 2010.
The Hip Life/Hip Hop scene in Ghana will be welcoming a new artiste in a couple of days. Precisely on the 30th December, 2010 at the Rockstone’s Office.
ReeZon, as he prefers to be known was born Richard Sowah in Ghana but moved to the United States to pursue higher education after graduating from Morning Star School in Accra. Before moving to the States, ReeZon was with NFL (Native Funk Lords) not as a member, but as neighbours who shared common musical ideas. Growing up, he saw the musical trio as his mentors.
If you are new to this headline then you are probably a visitor or you were just not interested in the hullaballoo of the two famous love birds. The story carried by the only tabloid newspaper in Ghana, NewsOne, suggested an intimate involvement of the two screen personalities, an assertion that Yvonne came out to disprove, calling Jon Germain an opportunist and all sorts of names. A follow up by celebrity publicist and blogger, Quame Junior has revealed a whole new dimension to the story.
In an investigative journey, the showbiz writer has discovered evidence which puts Jon Germain and Yvonne Nelson together as a dating couple. The first piece of evidence is a text message sent to Jon by Yvonne prior to the NewsOne publication. The content of the message read “You are making me fall in love with you” and was received by actor Eddy Nartey who was with Jon Germain at the time of the text message arrived. Eddy Nartey was contacted to verify the credibility of the text message and to affirm that he indeed received the text message from Yvonne Nelson, when he had Jon’s phone.
Semblance of people is no new phenomenon, but among celebrities here in Ghana it is quite a novice. In the past we have seen semblances after the likes of Terry Bonchaka, but one celebrity whose semblance to an international star can never be denied is the Discovery of the Year nominee at the just ended Ghana Music Awards, OJ Blaq.
How long can a woman keep waiting after given all apparent signals to a man and he does not make the move?
The idea that a woman can propose to a man brings out divisions anytime it comes up for discussion. To some group of people, it is never acceptable and sounds a bit “whorish & desperate” for a woman to make the first move.
The wedding we are all waiting to see is almost here. I’d like to take a poll to see what dress Menaye Donkor could wear on her special day to become Mrs.Sulley Muntari.
As a seamstress and wedding dress consultant my advice to her would be enhance all your best attributes. She can do form fitted without the use of spanx (a woman’s secret to tighten those special places in limited amount of time).
Lets face it, if Ghana had a fitness modeling industry, Menaye would reign supreme making it easy for her to choose a ready to wear dress by Badgley Mischka, Atlier Aimee, Calvin Thoo, Margie Sottero, Pnina Tomai, Vera Wang; the list goes on.
(HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20, 2010) – “Sinking Sands”, Ghana’s first high budget international film, was featured and reviewed on BBC Weekend Network Africa.
“We were delighted to have had BBC Weekend Network Africa attend the grand premiere of “Sinking Sands,” said Africa Academy Movie nominated filmmaker and director Leila Djansi. ‘Hearing the opinion of BBC journalist David Amanor and the audience was really a treat and let’s me know the movie spoke volumes to women and men.”
The buzz has been out there for quite a while and with the all star line-up of Mcs and disk jockeys confirmed for the event, all is geared up and ready for the rollout of unarguably the biggest Christmas Eve party in the city for 2010.
Empire’s “White Christmas Party” has promised many things deemed impossible but with their track record of delivering on the best entertainment in the city, all rave heads are eagerly anticipating this mega jam on Friday night at the Aphrodisiac nightclub.
Over the years I have grown accustomed to noticing a couple of actresses and I daresay some actors with what I call the three cardinal signs of bleaching; dark knuckles, dark brown spots on both cheeks and dark feet.
Nonetheless, in recent times this trend of bleaching among stars has steadily increased, and this of course has sparked some form of disapproval from some movie watchers.
However the question I would like it to ask here is; do they really deserve the criticism when it seems like the entertainment industry and our society idolize “whiteness or lightness?”
