CELEBRITY PROFILE-------TONY PRINCE TOMETY

Production Designer/Art Director · Sep 2008 to present · Accra, Ghana

responsible for the visual and artistic look for tv productions and films.deal with the costumes,set deign,make-up,special effects and mre.manage the whole art department for any tv production

Art Director-MTN GHANA TV COMMERCIALS,
Art Director-NESCAFE CEWA TV COMMERCIALS
Production Designer-SINKING SANDS
Set Designer-GTV WORLD CUP ANALYSIS SET 2010
Set Designer-GTV SPORTS PLUS SPORTS SET

Tony Tomety's Education

NAFTI 

BFA FILM & TV PRODUCTION, Art Direction(film & tv)

2002 – 2006

NAFTI

BFA FILM & TV PRODUCTION, Art Direction(film & tv)

2002 – 2006

CELEBRITY PROFILE--------LEILA JEWEL DJANSI

Leila Djansi was born Leila Afua Djansi on 17 July 1981. Her father was a pilot and her mother a Senior Nursing officer. She grew up in India and Ghana. She attended the Kabore Primary and JSS in the Volta region of Ghana for her primary and junior high education and continued to Mawuli Secondary School for her high school education. Although acting and writing were her hobbies, Leila's career ambition was to become a gynecologist, a plan which later changed when she developed an interest in forensics. Ready to delve into the field of criminology, another career change occurred when she met the Ghanaian actor Sam Odoi who convinced her to write a script for him. Leila was 19 years old when her script Babina was made into a movie by Producer Akwetey Kanyi.
She began her film education at the National Film and Television School but left left Ghana for the United States to continue her Film and Television Degree at Savannah College of Art and Design on an artistic Honors Scholarship. She has remained in the United States since her departure in the late 1990s.

President of the Ghana Library Board Readers club for three years running, her sojourn in the industry began when she came runner-up in a regional beauty pageant in 1998. She tried event management when she promoted and produced mainstream entertainment shows including The Playback Show and Teen Talent. A screenplay, Babina, for producer Akwetey Kanyi resulted in her first screen credit. She took a job with Socrates Safo's Movie Africa Productions where she worked as a Writer/Line Producer while she decided if film-making was the right thing for her. Whilst with the company, she wrote Ghana's first Gay/Lesbian rights screenplay The Sisterhood the film of which propelled the late Ghanaian screen actress Suzzy Williams to stardom. Djansi's writing style differed from the styles adapted by most film makers at the time and this resulted in her working with the state owned Gama Film Company where she wrote and produced Legacy of love.
In the United States, she established Turning Point Pictures, an independent production company geared towards social issue films.
Djansi's first film resulted in her first award. The 2009 worldFest Platinum Award for the film Grass Between My Lips. A gripping story of female circumcision and early marriage, set in a northern Ghana village.
In 2010, her debut feature, I sing of a well was nominated for 11 African Movie Academy Awards. The film won 3 awards: Best Sound, Best Costume and the Jury Special Award for Over-All Best Film. In 2011, Djansi was presented with the BAFTA/LA Pan African Film Festival Choice Award for the film I sing of a well.

Djansi's 2011 film Sinking Sands received 10 African Movie Academy Award nominations, winning first time actress Ama K Abebrese the Best Actress Award. Djansi also won the Best Original Screenplay Award. At the first Ghana Movie Awards in 2011, Djansi's Sinking Sands was the biggest winner, receiving "Best Art Direction", "Best Costume", "Best West African Film" and "Best Picture". Sinking Sands was nominated in 14 categories.
Djansi's work and contribution to the Ghana film industry has been recognized by UNiFEM Ghana, The African Women Development Fund, The Ghana Musicians Association and other social issue minded communities.

CELEBRITY PROFILE-----------AMA K. ABEBRESE

Ama K. Abebrese is a TV Presenter, Producer, and Actress based in the UK. She has over a decade of experience in television with experience working with the YCTV (Youth Culture Television), BBC2 and OBE TV. The presenter and producer of shows like her resident entertainment chat show On the Sofa is extremely popular with viewers where she interviews international celebrities like Akon, Ziggy Marley, Hollywood actor Idris Elbaand UK stars like rapper Sway, as well as African celebrities like Jim Iyke, Jackie Appiah, Samini and Becca to name a few. Also the long running popular One Touch music request show.

A regular at Red Carpet Events, she is usually one of the fixtures at the Screen Nation Film and Television Awards’, the UK version of the Black Oscars. She also has experience on the MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards glitzy carpet interviewing the likes of Rihanna, Neyo and Joe. The UK based presenter, when in Ghana is often a co-host on the hugely popular Music Music programme and is usually featured as a guest on the popular ‘Mentor’ talent show. In the UK she can usually be seen hosting shows like the Ghana Music Awards UK, Miss Ghana UK and other prestigious shows and film premières.

Ama K. began her TV career at YCTV (Youth Culture Television) a training facility in West London, in 1997 as a teenager where the highlights of her time there was when she interviewed Hollywood legends Harrison Ford and Star Wars director George Lucas. She moved on to co-host the youth entertainment programme Pass da Mic, a show in collaboration with BBC2, where guests interviewed for the show included the then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, rocker Mick Jagger, and football legend Kevin Keegan. She went on to report on BBC2 English File, reporting about the interactive image filmed on location in California.

Also a trained actor, Ama K. has performed as part of the Lyric Theatre summer company in the play ‘Chinese Whispers’ on the London stage. She also portrayed the lead female role in the short play Three Nights at the Diroma Theatre in London. She played a cameo role in the 2006 African film London Get Problem.

An accomplished television producer Ama K's co-producing credits include Fresh Act, a reality television show format that sought to find actors and actresses for a TV drama, the first its kind to be produced on a UK Minority ethnic TV channel. She produced and presented in 2008 a six part series filmed on location in Johannesburg called South Africa Business Profile. She is also a producer on long standing shows One Touch and On the Sofa.

She holds a B A in Media Arts and Drama obtained from St Mary's University college, Surrey.

Filmography

• Sinking Sands, 2010: Role- Pabi
• Elmina, 2010: Role- Araba:2010
• London Get Problem, 2006: Role- Cameo
• TIES THAT BIND 2011: ROLE: BUKI

CELEBRITY PROFILE--------VAN VICKER

Actor, Director, and Producer, Van Vicker is a maverick in the world of African Movies.  He is, by far, the hottest actor in Nollywood and Ghallywood.  Born to a Liberian-Ghanian mother and a Dutch father, this dashingly handsome young actor uses his charm and adoring smile to connect with his audience.
Having worked as a radio personality and a soap opera star, Van is no stranger to the limelight.  His acting is uplifting and his personality is infectious.  To date, Van has starred in over 100 plus movies including DIVINE LOVE, KEEPING THE PROMISE, LOSING YOU, RAJ, MINDGAMES, PAPARAZZI EYE IN THE DARK, just to name a few.

To his credit, he has received numerous nominations and awards for his sensational acting in both Nollywood and Ghallywood movies. He is also the UNCHR Goodwill Ambassador to Ghana, a Globalcom Ambassador, and an icon for Belaqua in Ghana. This young, intelligent, and daringly handsome prince is an asset to the African movie industry and has contributed tremendously to African films.

His fan base spreads across cultures, continents, and countries such as the US, UK, Canada, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Jamaica, US Virgin Islands, just to name a few.  He has directed and produced two of his own films and is looking forward to getting into the Hollywood Movie Industry.
For more information about Van Vicker, our dynamic recipient, please visit his excellent website at www.vanvickerworld.com

CELEBRITY PROFILE-----SARKODIE

Sarkodie Obidi simply known as Sarkodie is a hiplife/hiphop artist making a whole lot of waves on Ghana’s music scene. His ability to string several words together in a very fast pace puts him in a league of his own. With the style and pace of lyrics most people can’t imagine who he is.
He is a very young, energetic, polite, simple, intelligent and sociable young man who has been King of underground hiplife for close to 5 years and finally turning to do commercial music. He was highly inspired by Obrafuor’s blazing “pae mu ka” album. Seeing hiplife as a relevant source to spread information in few seconds, he realized the merits of music and created a challenge to rap fast since he saw the need to spread a lot of relevant information in few seconds.
Currently being outdoored as Ghana’s fastest lyricist, his “makye” album which is suppose to be launched late October 2008 with numerous hit tracks is set to hit the foreign chats with hit tracks Listen, Babe and chat with you. With the local music awards, he already realizes the potential to sweep most awards in his category with tracks like Babe, push and Wonfoni.
Due to the hard work of his production and management team (DUNCWILLS ENTERTAINMENT) and being crowned king of underground hipilife at the commercial ‘kasahare’, he has realized the need to go very commercial with the help of his funs, God and critics who made him what he is today.
Sarkodie shares the view that, doing music is like lecturing due to the information it sends and since most modern populace prefer to stay abreast with global issues rather in a fast and relaxed manner, there was the need to scan all commercial songs to fit into the societal preference. He believes that success is a non-reciprocal product of hard work, determination, discipline and the need to be religious.
Sarkodie has immense passion for orphans he performed at free concerts to raise funds for needy children and community projects as a whole. Currently though without album, he has performed at a high level forums such as 3rd high level forum held currently in Accra-Ghana to elaborate on the effective aid policies. Though the foreign dignitaries from the World Bank, United Nations, GTZ and other multinational agencies were already use to his commercial mixtapes, Ghana’s local dignitaries including the late finance Minister (Mr.Kojo Baah Wiredu),central bank governor (Dr. Paul Acquah) and honorable Kan Dapaah expressed appreciation for a very intelligent presentation of an effective Aid Masterpiece.