Video - The search for the next Nollywood star

Davis Media Group in collaboration with Paradise Entertainment GH and TLDC for the Nigerian market presents - The Search for Africa's Next Hollywood Star! A reality show to scout and recruit acting talents in West Africa to Hollywood.

TLDC is an entertainment company that organizes and manages brand driving events uniquely through Latin dances. It is the pioneer of salsa dancing in Nigeria and its activities stretch to other African countries. TLDC has since 2005 partnered with well known multinational companies / Brands like Baileys, Unilever's Close Up tooth paste; to enhance their brand awareness in the Nigerian market through Latin dance events.

Our mission is to help our partners drive their brands Africa using Latin dance and arts, as the medium. TLDC believes that through arts, mutual marketing goals can be effectively and profitably achieved with its partners.

Davis Media Ghana Limited (DMG)
DMG is a multi-media production company, located in Ghana, West Africa founded by Award
Winning Producer/Director Samad Davis and his business partner Usman Sharif. DMG is a division of their US film investment and production company and was set up to immediately start producing groundbreaking, next level projects such as; television shows, films, commercials, web content and music videos, that will not only elevate the quality of content produced in Africa, but ultimately make an immediate impact in the entertainment industry in the continent as a whole.

PARADISE ENTERTAINMENT
Paradise Entertainment is management firm owned by Mr. Duke Banson and located in Ghana, West African. Paradise Entertainment has served as the driving force behind such musical super stars in Africa as VIP, KWAISEY PEE, MIMI, SALA and 4X4.
Mr. Banson and his team also specialize in marketing solutions through events and television
Productions like their newest reality show ICONS, the divas edition sponsored by Vodafone.

Tracey Moore --Hollywood Celebrity Acting Coach
Tracey Moore has committed well over twenty years to casting for film, television and
Commercials with directors such as: Spike Lee, Gus Van Sant and Samad Davis. Moore has been instrumental as an acting coach in mounting of thousands of actors, from Dave Chappelle to John Stewart, to Hip-Hop Artist such as: Busta Rhymes, 50 Cents, Eve, Nelly and Ludacris, to BET's 106 & Park television host, Terrence J and Rocsi, in the embryonic and most successful stages of their careers.

Hollywood star Anthony Anderson; Will be in Nigeria August 12, 2011 for the audition as the host.

Linda Ikeji

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