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The Fourth Annual Nollywood Awards is a Great Success

August 10, 2016 Dustin Brown Leave a comment

The fourth annual Los Angeles Nollywood Film Association (LANFA)’s Nollywood Awards took place on Saturday August 6th at the James Bridges Theater at UCLA. This event recognized renowned international talents in the film, music and media industries within the African communities globally. LANFA has experienced tremendous growth since it’s inception and wanted to appreciate all those who have stayed the cause and also given back to their communities. King Bassey is the founder of the Nollywood awards and LANFA. Mark Sevier was the LA Coordinator of LANFA and Amelia Johnson was the head of marketing. Additionally Mark won a best actor award for the film “The Chosen One.”

Mistress of Ceremonies Denise O'Brien, Founder of the Nollywood awards King Bassey, awardee Vida Ghaffari and presenter Ford Austin — Mistress of Ceremonies Denise O’Brien, Founder of the Nollywood awards King Bassey, awardee Vida Ghaffari and presenter Ford Austin

Awardee Mark Sevier — Awardee and LA coordinator for the Nollywood Awards Mark Sevier

Beauty queen and model Amelia Johnson and Mark Sevier

HPC’s own Vida G. , who is also an award-winning actress and fashion and beauty blogger, was presented with a prestigious Excellence in Media Award at this prestigious event. Celebrated actor Ford Austin presented Vida’s award to her. Ford is Vida’s co-host on their popular Facebook live show, “Live with Ford and Vida.” “Live with Ford and Vida” was also an official sponsor of this auspicious event. Entrepreneur Laverne Tillis also presented this award to Vida.

Awardee Vida with her award and presenters Ford Austin and Laverne Tillis. Ford and Vida are dressed in Sai Suman Couture

Romane 4th from left with actor Said Faraj (second from left) and all the other awardees.

Also in attendance was filmmaker and awardee Romane Simon, who is also a prolific author. Simon has an interesting background. Originating from Haiti, his grandfather was Antoine Simon, the president of Haiti.

Presenter and founder of the World Networks Lousine Karibian with awardees Said Faraj and Vida Ghaffari

More info at http://www.Lanfaa.com

Photos courtesy of Mark Sevier and Bob Delgadillo

Dustin Brown

I am the Senior Editor at HollywoodPressCorps.com.

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Red Carpet

Taurus Birthday Party at the W Hotel in Hollywood

May 25, 2016 Dustin Brown Leave a comment

What’s your sign? Well, Angela Downey of Downey’s Desserts, www.downeysdesserts.com, Producer Jenna Urban of Urban Media Group, and Celebrity Photographer Bob Delgadillo have similar birthdays, so they are all Taurus or rather Taureans, so they celebrated their birthdays in style at the swanky W Hotel in Hollywood. Hollywood Press Corps was proud to be a media partner of this epic birthday party!

Birthday gals Angela and Jenna with birthday guy Uncle Bob

The beautiful red carpet hosts were Integrity Entertainment PR, fashion and entertainment specialist Kim Cox, Mrs. Latina Global of Columbia (Yanith Forero), and a couple of the Mrs. Asia USA ladies of the Philippines (Amelia Johnson and Pinay Ako).

Uncle Bob, actors Dawna Lee Heising, THT's Vida G. and Ford Austin. Vida and Ford are dressed in Sai Suman — Uncle Bob, actors Dawna Lee Heising, THT’s Vida G. and Ford Austin. Vida and Ford are dressed in Sai Suman. Vida proudly points to the HPC logo and so does Uncle Bob!

Host Erica Allseitz with comic Gil Fajardo — On-camera host Erica Allseitz with comic Gil Fajardo

Jenna and Uncle Bob and their guest rock the red carpet!

Artist Sham Ibrahim, birthday gal Angela with artwork made my Sham and friends

Miss Philippines Asia USA Amelia Johnson with Nancy Salim, owner of My Oasis Spa

Publicist Denise O'Brien and friends — Publicist Denise O’Brien and friends

Photos courtesy of Sheri Determan, Disco Stella, Mark Sevier, Namli Inc. Photos, Donna Dymally, and Liza Crilly-Tyner.

Dustin Brown

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Premiere, Red Carpet

“Among Us The Beginning” World Premiere at Harmony Gold

August 19, 2015 Dustin Brown Leave a comment

Magic Image Productions and Magic Image Hollywood Magazine along with Solecito Vazquez and Joss Gomez invites you to attend the world premiere of the movie “Among Us The Beginning” at Harmony Gold Theater in Hollywood on August 29th with the red carpet starting at 7pm. Come join them and their cast and crew along with celebrity guests to celebrate this special night.

This film is about Noom (Mizo Ghendar), an evil extraterrestrial from the dark side of the moon, who comes to early looking for a beautiful human female with whom to have a hybrid child in order to control our minds and bodies while they live Among Us. He will not be stopped in his quest and will even resort to murder and mayhem. A human being named Joss (Joss Gomez) is at the right place at the wrong time and will face Noom and try to stop him before it’s too late. Solecito Vazquez, Dr. Robert Rey, Claudiu Raymond, Mark Sevier, Amelia Johnson and Danielle Vasinova round out this ensemble cast.

Joss with his cast members Mark Sevier, Mizo Ghendar, and Claudio Raymond — Joss (center) with his cast members Mark Sevier, Mizo Ghendar, Karyme Lozano and Claudiu Raymond

Joss and Solecito with their cast and crew members

Here’s the trailer for “Among Us The Beginning”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PaAFLff6Lw

More info about the film at http://amongusthemovie.com/ and tickets can be purchased at this link http://amongusthemovie.com/premiere-tickets

Photos courtesy of Magic Image Productions

Dustin Brown

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Fashion

Amelia Johnson’s Candidacy for Mrs. Asia USA

May 15, 2015 Vida G. Leave a comment

The multi-talented Amelia Johnson hails from Angeles City, Philippines where she was raised in an entrepreneurial family running a successful restaurant business for over 40 years. Growing up in that environment really affected her and allowed her to to truly become a successful businesswoman who has also really focused on customer service. She continues to carry on the family tradition but has a very good eye for fashion and cultivated that know how. That brought her to the United States where she became an influential CEO of a self-owned “Elegant Style” fashion business. Eventually she returned to the trade of her upbringing where she became a successful manager of operations for a major US food chain. That brought her to the level of assistant to the Vice President, where she oversaw over 12 locations nation-wide.

Power couple...Celebrity photographer Mark Sevier with lovely Amelia — Power couple…Celebrity photographer Mark Sevier with lovely Amelia

Since then, she’s also pursued career endeavors in the realms of acting, TV and film production, joining her skills, passion, and creativity to greater heights. Amelia currently is producer of the successful TV show “Broken Reeds”, a cable and satellite faith-based weekly series as well as starring in the upcoming soap opera“Love Lies and Deceit” and in the upcoming film “Radical”, a faith based action movie. She is also starring in Joss Gomez’s upcoming film “Among Us.” It’s a truly compelling and gripping tale and has it’s own genre, “Sci-Real,” as opposed to “Sci-Fi,” as it’s “Science Reality” and not fiction.

Amelia with actor, filmmaker and acclaimed journalist Joss Gomez on the set of Among Us

Amelia with the cast and crew of Among Us, with Joss Gomez and Solecito Vazquez in the center. Gomez wrote, produced, directed and starred in the film while Vazquez acted and produced the film

Not only is she pursuing her modeling career, but she is also a candidate for the prestigious Mrs. Asia USA 2015 contest based out of Los Angeles. Amelia is a natural beauty with effortless glamour, and her experience in the financial and customer service realms has given her much respect and appreciation in the City of Angels. Her limitless assistance in this community has touched singers, music producers, writers and others of the entertainment industry. This red carpet stunner is currently raising funds for her candidancy in this project. For more info on how to donate, please go to http://www.gofundme.com/acjohnson?fb_action_ids=10206765377956838&fb_action_types=og.shares

All photos courtesy of Mark Sevier