Sam Ly and Fionn Wiens have been crowned as the 2011 Sunshine Nation boy and girl champions respectively.
Ly is a bright-eyes-big-smile 24-year-old young man from Vancouver and Wiens a 17 years old girl from the city of Langley.
Sunshine Nation, a pageant / talent search organized by Fairchild Radio, was held on August 26 in front of a full house of audience at the Michael J. Fox Theatre.
Winners of Sunshine Nation will be given casting considerations by a drama production company in Taiwan.
Past winners who have traveled fast to stardom include Shawn Dou (2007 Champion).
Shawn was handpicked by the famous Chinese director Zhang Yi-mou to be the male lead actor in the 2010 movie “Under the Hawthorn Tree”.