Van Vicker To Receive Creative Award In California
Separated at Birth, Indonesian Twins Meet in Sweden February 2012
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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, The Pan African Film Festival, the most presVan has starred in over 100 plus movies tigious international film festival in the US, including DIVINE LOVE, KEEPING will honor award-winning African movie THE PROMISE, LOSING YOU, RAJ, actor Van Vicker with the Africa Channel’s MINDGAMES, PAPARAZZI EYE IN Creative Achievement Award. THE DARK, just to name a few.
The aforementioned award will be presented during the Night of Tribute on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:00 PM in Los Angeles, California. The Night of Tribute honors world-renowned actors, filmmakers, community leaders, and artists for their contributions in the film and entertainment industry.
This star-studded event is highly attended by the who’s who in Black Hollywood and is by far the biggest extravaganza during the film festival. The award ceremony kicks off with red-carpet festivities and is followed by a reception. The ceremony is recorded and televised by the Africa Channel and its affiliates, and is aired internationally throughout the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe.
Traditionally, the Night of Tribute honorees have been Hollywood stars, a few South Africans, Kenyans, etc. This is the first time that a Nollywood/Ghallywood actor will receive this prestigious honor. We are elated that Van Vicker, a young man who has made tremendous contributions to the African Movie Industry, has been selected to receive this award alongside Hollywood greats such as Loretta Divine, Meagan Good, and the like.
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 Globacom 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 or for information about the Pan African Film Festival, Paparazzi Eye in the Dark screening, the Night of Tribute, and other honorees, please visit www.paff.org.
World's Tiniest Woman Makes It Big In Politics
The world's smallest woman is making a big impression in politics. Jyoti Amge is campaigning for the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) party ahead of the upcoming civic election in Mumbai, India.
And the 18-year-old, who stands at just 2ft 6in tall, is certainly pulling in the crowds. Jyoti was lifted high above a group of MNS supporters during a rally in the West Indian city. The teen, who was held aloft by a 7ft 1in tall lookalike of the WWE wrestler Great Khali, beamed as she waved a flag and drew cheers from her fellow campaigners.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's policies include anti-migrant plans in the city.
Jyoti was officially recognised as the world's smallest woman by Guinness World Records on her 18th birthday in December 2011.
Source: thesun.co.uk
Twins born in Indonesia and put up separately for adoption, have been reunited after finding each other living just 40 kilometres (25 miles) apart, in southern Sweden, three decades later.
Non-identical twins Emilie Falk and Lin Backman -strangers until last year -- were separated nearly 29 years ago.
thinking about family and my adoption, and when I asked my mother she told me this story again, and I decided to look for Lin," Falk said. She had a name and began searching through a network for Indonesian children adopted by Swedish families, and found her on Facebook.
"I am born on March 18, 1983 in Semarang and According to a DNA test the pair had done two my biological mother's name is Maryati Rajiman," months after reuniting in January last year, and which Falk said she wrote, and quickly received the reply: they shared with AFP, there is a 99.98 percent chance "Wow, that's my mother's name as well! And that's of them being sisters. my birthday!" A complex string of events led up to that revelation.
Both were adopted from an orphanage in Semarang in northern Indonesia by Swedish couples, but there was no mention in either of their documents of the fact that they had a twin.
When Backman's parents left the orphanage with her all those years ago, the taxi driver had turned around and asked them: "What about the other one, the sister?" and they jotted the girls' Indonesian names down on a piece of paper. The name helped Backman's parents track down the Falks back in Sweden, and the two families got together a few times when the girls were babies to compare notes.
"They went through the adoption papers, but they didn't think we were very similar and there was a lot in the papers that didn't add up ... And there were no DNA tests back then," Falk said. Among the discrepancies were different names for the girls' fathers. And although the records showed they had the same mother, the families eventually decided that this too was an error.
The two couples in the end wrote off the idea and eventually lost touch. Although their parents had told them the story as children, both Falk and Backman later forgot about it. Growing up, neither was interested in information about their biological background, so they never asked. "But when I got married two years ago I started
They found they had a lot in common.
They lived only 40 kilometres apart in the very south of Sweden, they are both teachers, they got married on the same day only one year apart and even danced to the same wedding song: "You and Me" by Lifehouse. "It was really strange," Falk said.
"When Lin called me (with the DNA test results), I remember I was sitting in the car and when she told me I started laughing, because it just felt so strange," she said, adding: "I suddenly started thinking that we shared a womb. It was really strange, but really cool too."
Since then the two have kept in close touch, and have talked about going to Indonesia to search for their biological parents.
There are a number of details, some contradictory, in the adoption papers, including a reference to their father as a taxi driver.
"We are very curious if he is THE taxi driver," Falk said.
Asked if she wished she had found out about her twin earlier, Falk insisted "there's no use in being sad about something I didn't know about. I am only happy to have found her." Source: yahoonews.com