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– Alisha-Jo Penney has been nominated for her lead role as Lilly in the short film Like Smoke, at the 34th Annual Young Artists Awards in Los Angles USA. This was Alisha-Jo’s first role and the film has done extremely well, playing at the 2012 International Cannes Film Festival, the New York Indian Film Festival, winning a prize at the Amsterdam Film Festival and also being accepted into a Major Film Festival in St Petersburg Russia.

Alisha-Jo is naturally creative and lives in Mission BC. A recent short film “Tumbling After” is also doing very well, having been accepted into 7 international film festivals in the last 2 months and ranking very favorably in a national Canadian competition for major production sponsorship and national distribution deal. Alisha-Jo started acting at 7, she loves it whether she is on stage or screen, and she continues to work hard at her craft. She is also delighted to see that a number of other Vancouver and lower mainland based young actors have also been nominated and she wishes to congratulate each of them.

Alisha-Jo is now 9 years old; she was born in Stirling Scotland in the UK and moved with her family to Canada in September 2007. She attends ASIA (Abbotsford’s School of Integrated Arts) North Poplar school in Abbotsford BC. Her Dad is from Guernsey in the Channel Islands UK, and her Mom is from Bacup in Lancashire England. Her brother Joshua is 7 years old and is an extremely talented young hockey player.