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Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter, best known for action and science fiction films. Snyder made his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead and has gone on to be known for his comic book movies and superhero films, including 300 (2007), Watchmen (2009), Man of Steel (2013) and its upcoming sequel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Snyder is the co-founder of Cruel and Unusual Films, a production company he established in 2004, alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller.- Director
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Terrence O'Hara was born on 25 December 1945 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Heroes (2006), The Proxy and Dead at 21 (1994). He was married to Shanna Reed. He died on 5 December 2022 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
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Norberto Barba was born on 12 September 1963 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and The Event (2010). He has been married to Regina Osorio since 1999. They have two children.- Producer
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Aaron Lipstadt was born in Southington, Connecticut, USA. He is a producer and director, known for City Limits (1984), Escape from New York (1981) and Android (1982).- Director
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Peter Werner began his professional life as a teacher and documentary filmmaker; he has Master's degrees in both fields. After a year as a V.I.S.T.A. Volunteer in downtown Detroit, he co-founded a Quaker high school in Deerfield, MA. While teaching in Vermont, he met Frances Flaherty, widow of the great "father of documentaries" Robert. Frances became both his friend and mentor and allowed Peter to make a documentary portrait of her that aired on PBS. It was the first project produced by his younger brother, Tom, who went on to create The Cosby Show, Roseanne and many others under his company Carsey-Werner. Tom is currently co-owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club.
Peter's American Film Institute student film, which he wrote and directed based on the short story "In the Region of Ice" by Joyce Carol Oates, was shown at the New York Film Festival and earned Peter an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Since then he has directed documentaries, pilots, including Nash Bridges, TV movies and a plethora of episodic television series. His credits include Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, A Different World, The Wonder Years, Moonlighting, and Graham Yost's series Boomtown and Justified. In the span of his career, Werner has been nominated for multiple Emmy and D.G.A. Awards. He won an ACE cable Award for his HBO film, The Image, starring Albert Finney. He is married with three children (Lillie, Katharine and James) and has been a board member of his son's schools as well as the American Film Institute. He has taught and lectured extensively and has practiced Buddhism for 30 years.- Producer
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Darnell Martin was born on 7 January 1964 in Bronx, New York, USA. She is a director and writer, known for I Like It Like That (1994), Cadillac Records (2008) and Do the Right Thing (1989). She is married to Giuseppe Ducrot.- Producer
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Holly Dale is one of Canada's premiere directors recognized globally for her outstanding, award-winning television and cinema work crafted over the past twenty-five years. Ms Dale has directed movies, entire mini series, pilots and episodic. She has worked in all genres.
Recently, Ms Dale was taped to be the Producer Director for showrunner Nick Santora's upcoming Netflix/Skydance series FUBAR starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Monica Barbaro and Fortune Feimster. The series will start streaming on Netflix in the Summer of 2023.
Previously Ms Dale was the Producer Director on the Warner Bros/Berlanti Productions series Batwoman for three seasons where she directed 13 episodes.
Ms Dale was also Producer Director of the international sensation Transplant. She block shot the pilot and first 3 episodes of Transplant, creating its stunning visual template. Transplant focuses on a Syrian trauma surgeon who himself is the transplant. The series holds the distinction of becoming the #1 drama series of the year in both its Canadian run and US network run on NBC.
Among many prestigious awards Ms Dale has earned is the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture and Best Director for the groundbreaking hard edged serial killer miniseries Durham County. She was also honoured with a Canadian Screen Award for Best Director for Mary Kills People, a limited series delving into the murky waters of euthanasia which she directed/co-executive produced the entire first season of six hours. Variety selected Mary Kills People as one of their top ten series of the year.
The Directors Guild of Canada has recognized Ms Dale as their Best Director of Drama series on four [4] separate occasions for her work on the acclaimed one hour shows Flashpoint, Durham County, Mary Kills People and most recently for Transplant.
Highlights of the many extraordinary series Holly has guest directed include Dexter, The Americans, Chris Carter's X-Files, Joan Allen's The Family, Dick Wolf's Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Law & Order:SVU, Halle Berry's Extant, Bradley Cooper's Limitless, Marvel's Agents of the S.H.I.E.L.D, Steven Spielberg's Falling Skies as well as 12 individual hours of the Jerry Bruckheimer anthological series Cold Case, to name just a few.- Director
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Tawnia McKiernan is known for Blindspot (2015), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008) and Warehouse 13 (2009).- Director
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Michael W. Watkins is known for Quantum Leap (1989), Justified (2010) and Point of No Return (1993).- Writer
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John Gray was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer, director and producer, known for Reckless (2014) White Irish Drinkers (2010), Ghost Whisperer (2005), The Hunley (1999) Martin and Lewis, and Helter Skelter. He was the youngest recipient ever of an American Film Institute Independant Filmmaker Grant. He has been married to Melissa Jo Peltier since April 29,2006. He has a daughter.- Director
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Paul A. Kaufman is a British born filmmaker. He has also won multiple Emmy Awards for his television directing and producing.
Paul recently made his feature film directing debut with the Independent film, "BUTTER", which was released theaters nationally in February of 2022. The movie is about, a lonely obese teenager named Butter who is about to make history. He is going to eat himself to death, live on the Internet, and everyone is invited to watch. When he first makes the announcement online to his classmates, Butter expects pity, insults, and possibly sheer indifference. What he gets are cheerleaders rallying around his deadly plan. Yet as their dark encouragement grows, it begins to feel a lot like popularity. And that feels good. But what happens when Butter reaches his suicide deadline? Can he live with the fallout if he doesn't go through with his plans? The film deals with the social issues of teenage bullying and suicide-prevention. Academy Award winner, Mira Sorvino, co-stars with Annabeth Gish and Ravi Patel.
Kaufman made his directorial debut on his long cherished project, "Run the Wild Fields" for Showtime, which earned numerous critical honors, including an Emmy Award for Best Director. The dramatic story follows a North Carolina woman and her daughter who take in a mysterious drifter to work their farm while her husband is missing in action during WWII. The movie stars Joanne Whalley, Sean Patrick Flanery and Alexa Vega.
Paul has directed "Ransom" for CBS which is Frank Spotnitz's ("Man in the High Castle" "X-Files") new series. It is a co-production with Global Television, CBS and TF1. He is a regular director of the top-rated CBS television series, "NCIS: Los Angeles" and recently directed the first episode of "Criminal Minds:Beyond Borders" which is the Gary Sinise spin-off of "Criminal Minds". He is also a regular director on the critically acclaimed series "Rogue" for Direct TV, which stars Cole Hauser and Thandie Newton.
He was nominated for The Canadian Screen Award for Outstanding Direction for movie, "Twist of Faith" which is the dramatic story of a gospel singer in Alabama who falls in love with a damaged drifter - a Cantor from New York, who tragically lost his family. The movie stars Toni Braxton, David Julian Hirsh and Mykelti Williamson.
Paul has produced and directed over 70 hours of prime-time television and has had overall producing deals at Warner Brothers/HBO, Artisan, Alliance Atlantis and Fox Television Studios.
Kaufman was honored with a Directors Guild of Canada nomination for Best Director for his television movie, "Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story". It stars Poppy Montgomery playing the title role based on the woman who wrote Harry Potter. The movie which Kaufman also produced, won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Television Movie or Miniseries.
He won an NAACP Award for Best TV Movie or Miniseries for the critically acclaimed movie he produced and directed, "Sins of the Mother" starring Jill Scott and Nicole Behari. Scott also won the NAACP Award for Lead Actress Performance in a Television Movie or Mini-series.
He also directed the Imagen Award winning movie "Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story" for Lifetime Television. The movie stars Judy Reyes and Ana Ortiz ("Ugly Betty").
As a writer, Kaufman co-wrote several made-for-television movies including "Thirst" starring Adam Arkin, Joely Fisher and Giancarlo Esposito for NBC and "Emma's Wish" starring Joanna Kerns and Della Reese for CBS. Also for CBS, Kaufman produced the highly acclaimed movie "Jewel," which starred Farrah Fawcett and Patrick Bergen and was nominated for the Humanitas Award.
He served two terms on the Board of Governors at The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences where he also served as the Chairman of The Primetime Emmy Awards, where he supervised and oversaw the awards show and telecast. He has also served on the Television Committee at BAFTA and been a guest speaker at AFI, UCLA, USC and other colleges.
He is a member of The Directors Guild of America, BAFTA, The Writers Guild of America, The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The Directors Guild of Canada and The Producers Guild of America. He is a citizen of The United Kingdom, The United States and Canada.- Producer
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Jim Kouf was born on 24 July 1951 in Hollywood, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Grimm (2011), Stakeout (1987) and National Treasure (2004). He is married to Lynn Kouf.- Director
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Selected for the inaugural class of 2019 ReFrame Rise directors, Hanelle M. Culpepper is an energetic and unflappable award-winning director whose television credits range from superhero action adventures to thrillers and genre films to character-driven dramas. In 2019, she was chosen to direct the pilot for Star Trek: Picard, making her the first woman to launch a new Star Trek series in its 53-year history, and earning her a Variety's 2019 Inclusion Impact honor. In 2021, Hanelle was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for her work on the show's pilot, 'Remembrance'.
Hanelle earned her B.A. from Lake Forest College and her M.A. from USC's Annenberg School. After working as the assistant for Oscar-winning screenwriter/director Callie Khouri, she was selected for AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women (DWW), which launched her as an emerging director to watch. Her DWW short A Single Rose won numerous awards and screened at film festivals worldwide, including the 2004 ICG Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival.
A Single Rose plus Hanelle's viral short film spoof Six and the City, led to the greenlight for her first independent feature, the supernatural thriller Within, starring Mia Ford, Sammi Hanratty, Sam Jaeger, Lori Heuring, Brent Sexton, and featuring Aisha Hinds. The film won Outstanding Feature Film at the Big Bear Horror Film Festival and had its television premiere on Lifetime. Over the next several years, Hanelle helmed multiple independent thrillers, including Murder on the 13th Floor starring a young Tessa Thompson.
Hanelle's television career took off after participating in NBC Universal's Directing Initiative, which led to an episodic directing role for Parenthood. Since then, her television work includes such shows as Counterpart, Mayans M.C., Criminal Minds, Grimm, American Crime, The Flash, Gotham, and recently, the upcoming AMC series, NOS4A2. And in 2015, Hanelle earned her first nomination for an Image Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for her work on Criminal Minds.
Hanelle proudly serves as Alternate Board member of the DGA and co-chair of the DGA's Women's Steering Committee. She is represented by Verve talent agency. Her manager is Adesuwa McCalla at Metamorphic Entertainment.
Hanelle proudly serves as Alternate Board member of the DGA and co-chair of the DGA's Women's Steering Committee. She is represented by Verve talent agency. Her manager is Adesuwa McCalla at Metamorphic Entertainment.- Producer
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David Greenwalt was born on 16 October 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Profit (1996). He has been married to Veronica Greenwalt since 16 October 2016.- Director
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Lee Rose started as a member of both The Ensemble Studio Theater and The Los Angeles Actors Theater before moving into film and television. She worked for many years in production and then started to write scripts . Lee went on to produce many of the movies she wrote, before moving into directing. Her first film as a director was invited to the Chicago film festival and was based on the civil rights case Sipes vs McGhee . She has won multiple awards including the GLAAD media award ...and The GLAAD fairness award and The Gay and lesbian centers Fairness award along with being a Humanitas finalist. She has and continuous to direct many different genres , from Grace and Frankie to Star Trek.....- Director
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Carlos Avila is an award-winning director for film and television. He has directed for various companies such as NBC/Universal, Warner Brothers Television, Sony Pictures Television, CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Shoreline Entertainment, New Line Cinema and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). His credits include the television series, 'Grimm' and 'Cold Case,' the feature film, 'Price of Glory' (which was developed at the Sundance Institute's Writers and Directors Lab), and several independently produced projects including 'Distant Water,' the magical realist series 'Foto-Novelas' and 'Tales of Masked Men.' Carlos's new award-winning short film, 'The Kill Floor,' is playing at film festivals throughout the country. 'The Kill Floor' will begin streaming nationally in 2024. Carlos is also partnered with producer David Valdes ('Avatar: The Way of Water,' 'Dune 2' and 'Unforgiven'). Together, they are developing the feature film, 'Last Band Standing,' which Carlos wrote and will direct.- Producer
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Félix Enríquez Alcalá was born on 7 March 1951 in Bakersfield, California, USA. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Third Watch (1999), Battlestar Galactica (2004) and ER (1994).- Director
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David Grossman is known for Desperate Housewives (2004), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and Adventures in Wonderland (1992). He has been married to Patricia Bunch since 14 July 2013.- Actor
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Charles Haid was born on 2 June 1943 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Altered States (1980), Nightbreed (1990) and Home on the Range (2004). He has been married to Lori Lethin since 1 April 2015. He was previously married to Elisabeth Harmon-Haid, Deborah Richter and Penelope Windust.- Director
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Rashaad Ernesto Green was born on 19 August 1978 in Bronx, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Premature (2019), Gun Hill Road (2011) and Premature (2008). He was previously married to Maryse Tricia Karunaratne.- Director
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Documentary cameraman/editor for Office National du Film (aka NFB Canada), under Michael Scott, Wolf Koenig, John Spotton and Roman Kroiter. Contributing cameraman on Paul Cowan's "Going The Distance" (Oscar Nomination 1980: Best Documentary Feature), also cameraman/editor on Halya Kuchmij's "Strongest Man In The World" (Genie Award 1981: Best Theatrical Short). Indebted to Robert Altman for citing short film "God Is Not a Fish Inspector" in an interview (Edmonton Journal).
Also writer/director adapting short works of fiction to film, by authors Leo Tolstoy, Heinrich Böll, Governor General's Award Winners Rudy Wiebe, Gabrielle Roy and Guy Vanderhaeghe, Also W.D. Valgardson, and most significantly Alistair MacLeod. Most adaptations were for producer Stan Thomas (CanWest CKND), winning over 50 awards (as CKND Drama Project): New York, San Francisco, Houston, Columbus, Gabriel Awards, etc.
Director of episodic television and some MOW's since 1987.
Shooting non-fiction recently for charitable organizations: addictions/recovery and disaster relief (re-construction after Hurricanes Katrina & Sandy, Detroit Flood 2014).
Member: Directors Guild of America (DGA) Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) Writers Guild of Canada (WGC)- Producer
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Joss Whedon is the middle of five brothers - his younger brothers are Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon. Both his father, Tom Whedon and his grandfather, John Whedon were successful television writers. Joss' mother, Lee Stearns, was a history teacher and she also wrote novels as Lee Whedon. Whedon was raised in New York and was educated at Riverdale Country School, where his mother also taught. He also attended Winchester College in England for two years, before graduating with a film degree from Wesleyan University.
After relocating to Los Angeles, Whedon landed his first TV writing job on "Roseanne", and moved on to script a season of "Parenthood". He then developed a film script which went on to become Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). Whedon was very unhappy with the final film - his original script was extensively re-written and made lighter in tone. After this he earned screenwriting credits on such high profile productions as Alien: Resurrection (1997) and Toy Story (1995), for which he was Oscar nominated. He also worked as a 'script doctor' on various features, notably Speed (1994).
In 1997, Whedon had the opportunity to resurrect his character Buffy in a television series on The WB Network. This time, as showrunner and executive producer, he retained full artistic control. The series, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was a popular and critical hit, which ran for several seasons, the last two on UPN. Whedon also produced a spin-off series, "Angel", which was also successful. A foray in to sci-fi television followed with "Firefly", which developed a cult following, but did not stay on air long. It did find an audience on DVD and through re-runs, and a spin-off feature film Serenity (2005) was released in 2005.
Other projects have included comic book writing, the sci-fi drama "Dollhouse" and the screenplay for Marvel blockbuster The Avengers (2012).