Airtel Adom Praiz tonight

By Forgive Adjoa Forfoe
The Perez Dome will tonight host the biggest names on the local gospel scene when this year’s Adom Praiz, which has American gospel artiste, Hezekiah Walker, as the headline act comes off.
Started in 2009, Adom Praiz has been regarded as the only gospel music concert that provides the platform for local artistes to hit the international limelight and tonight’s show will be no different when renowned local gospel artistes such as  Joe Mettle, KODA, Selina Boateng, Alabaster Box and Minister Francis Amu take the stage.


  

Highly rated for his stagecraft, Walker, who arrived in the country yesterday for the concert, is looking forward to impressing music lovers here with his unique approach to telling the word of God through music.
The home-based acts are also eager to prove their worth. They have huge following for their kind of music which their fans are familiar with and are sure of getting the audience to sing and dance along to their music. 
Her Alpha and Omega song is still popular with gospel music lovers and musician, Selina Boateng is sure to heat up the auditorium with some of her songs like Medofo Pa, I’m Grateful and First and Last, which have won her a lot of admiration in the past years.
The Perez Dome, formerly Word Miracle International Chapel, has gradually made a claim as another useful venue. It would be the third time the Airtel Adom Praiz is being held there. 
Head of Brands and Marketing Communications at Airtel Ghana, Cornelius Kakrabah, assured patrons who bought their tickets before it was postponed to bring them for entry.
 “Airtel Adom Praiz 2015 will provide a platform for higher praise and worship while rejoicing in the Lord. This is why the theme for this year's edition is 'Rejoice in the Lord Always,’” he added.
Bishop Hezekiah Walker has 16 albums and has churned out soul-moving tracks like Every Praise, He Favoured Me among others. He would be performing with his award winning choir, Love Fellowship Choir.

Do away with fake ‘experts’ -Fred Amugi

By Forfoe Adjoa Forfoe

Veteran actor, Fred Nii Amugi, says the best way forward for the Ghanaian movie industry is for writers, producers and directors to come up with first-rate scripts, cast appropriately and use the services of truly professional technicians.

The actor was speaking in an interview with  Showbiz last Monday, November 9 at a film event at the Kofi Annan International  ICT Training Centre in Accra.

“When producers stop using amateurs whose knowledge about photography is limited to coverage of weddings, funerals and parties and decide to rely on trained and tested Directors of Photography (D.O.Ps), things would change.

 There are too many fake people out there,”  the well-known actor pointed out.

He stated that though some of the challenges  currently facing  the  Ghanaian movie industry were normal to  movie establishments in other places, film producers here should explore more  stories lines with solid African content and also stop using young people to act elderly roles since there are competent elderly actors around to help raise  standards in the business.

“I believe using young people for elderly roles is something that does not speak well of the industry. “Costume helps to transform the young actors  but no matter how hard they try to change their voices and mannerisms to suit the roles, you can still tell the difference.

“That’s how come you would find these so-called ‘elderly’ people in a movie calling a chief a fool in his palace, meanwhile here in Ghana and Africa, that is not the practice.

“You can’t insult a chief or talk to him anyhow. Where in Africa would you see a man telling his chief he doesn’t think? It’s a joke.” Nii Amugi also stated that there are too many comedy movies on the market, while real life is not full of comedy.

“Life is not just about laughter. There are different moments in life so why do we want to think about laughter all the time?

“ Life is more serious than laughter; it’s not a one way road. We always want to restrict ourselves to one area and that is not helping the industry,” he concluded

Fred Amugi has starred in many movies and television series over the years. His works include Beasts of No Nation, The Destiny of Lesser Animals, The Cursed Ones, Chronicles of Odumkrom The Headmaster, Pieces of Me, Punctured Hope, In the Eyes of My Husband, M.P. (Madam Pink), Holby City (TV Series), Tuesday’s Child, Welcome Home and The Other Side of the Rich.

Slave King starts shooting in December

Slave King starts shooting in Dec

By Forgive Adjoa Forfoe                                                                                                                        Movie lovers are expected to be thrilled when a young filmmaker, Gilbert Ramy Carrey,15, releases his first movie, Slave King featuring some seasoned Ghanaian actors next year.

Young Gilbert

Slave King starts shooting in Dec

Slave King starts shooting in Dec

Gilbert, a student of Tema International School, unveilled his project, production team  and some cast members made up of actors Fred Nii amugi, Edinam Atatsi, Stella Animah Anakwah, Jose Tolbert among others at a press conference hosted at the  Kofi Annan ICT Training Centre, Accra on Monday.Playwright and CEO of Globe Productions, Latif Abubakar, who also graced the ocassion, revealed he was going to produce a play written by young Gilbert soon.

Speaking to Showbiz on his take on the Ghanaian movie industry, Gibert said “I don’t really like the storylines of some of our Ghanaian movies. Others are good but I still think there is room for improvement. My movies are going to be different because I look at the flaws in our local movies and think of  ways of avoiding such mistakes in mine.”

The young aspiring filmmaker who has no role model on the Ghanaian movie scene said” my motivation rather comes from my schoolmate who is not an actor’’.

Produced by Ultimate Screen Productions (USP) and Grams Films International (GFI),  Slave King takes its structure from the slave trade historical era.

The film is about a young man who dreams of marrying his lover but finds himself a slave to a cruel, ambitious king. The king also captures the young man’s lover and makes both of them serve as his slaves.

The man struggles to free himself, the woman he loves and other slaves, but unknown to him, the wicked king has plans to marry his lover and sends assassins after him.

Would the wicked king succeed? Would the slaves elude him? For the answer to this questions and more, movie enthusiats would have to wait till the first quarter of 2016 to watch the film which starts shooting next month

Slave King starts shooting in Dec

• Gilbert

By: Forgive Adjoa Forfoe Date : Thursday, 12 November 2015 09:49

Published in Showbiz News

Movie lovers are expected to be thrilled when a young filmmaker, Gilbert Ramy Carrey,15, releases his first movie, Slave King featuring some seasoned Ghanaian actors next year.
Gilbert, is a student of Tema International School unveilled his project, production team  and some cast members made up of actors Fred Nii amugi, Edinam Atatsi, Stella Animah Anakwah, Jose Tolbert among others at a press conference hosted at the  Kofi Annan ICT Training Centre, Accra on Monday.
Playwright and CEO of Globe Productions, Latif Abubakar, who also graced the ocassion revealed he was going to produce a play written by young Gilbert soon.

Speaking to Showbiz on his take on the Ghanaian movie industry, Gibert said “I don’t really like the storylines of some of our Ghanaian movies. Others are good but I still think there is room for improvement. My movies are going to be different because I look at the flaws in our local movies and think of  ways of avoiding such mistakes in mine.”
The young aspiring filmmaker who has no role model on the Ghanaian movie scene said” my motivation rather comes from my schoolmate who is not an actor’’.
Produced by Ultimate Screen Productions (USP) and Grams Films International (GFI),  Slave King, takes its structure from the slave trade historical era.
The film is about a young man who dreams of marrying his lover but finds himself a slave to a cruel, ambitious king. The king also captures the young man’s lover and makes both of them serve as his slaves.
The man struggles to free himself, the woman he loves and other slaves, but unknown to him, the wicked king has plans to marry his lover and sends assassins after him.
Would the wicked king succeed? Would the slaves elude him? For the answer to this questions and more, movie enthusiats would have to wait till the first quarter of 2016 to watch the film which starts shooting next month

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