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Suzie Vlcek was born in Cupertino, California, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Silversun Pickups: Lazy Eye (2006), Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2012) and Silversun Pickups: Cannibal (2014).- Director
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Fanny Grande (Formerly Fanny Véliz) is a Venezuelan-American award-winning filmmaker, actor, and director with more than 20 years of experience in the entertainment business. Grande, who was born in the US, grew up in Venezuela performing from a very young age. She returned to the States to attend college, she quickly realized that roles available for her and other Latinos were very limited and often portrayed negative stereotypes. So she decided to start creating her own content while in college. A three-time Imagen Award nominee, she has received several awards for her work both in front and behind the camera
Her films focus on creating content that celebrates diversity and her main goal is to transform the way Latinos are portrayed in the media. Four years ago, she co-founded Avenida Productions with her husband Nelson Grande. Avenida is a consulting and production firm that specializes in empowering independent media content creators with a focus in diversity. To date, Avenida has helped raise millions of dollars via crowdfunding for over 200 media projects. She has also produced several narrative features, documentaries, and web series.- Director
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Liz Friedlander was born on 9 December 1970 in New York, New York, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Conviction (2016), Take the Lead (2006) and Revolution (2012).- Director
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Chris Dowling was born in Flowood, Mississippi, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Blue Miracle (2021), Acidman (2022) and Run the Race (2018).- Director
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Lasse Hallström inherited his enthusiasm for film from his father, who was an amateur filmmaker. In high school he made his first short film, which was released on Swedish television. Hallström then began working as a director, cameraman and editor for Swedish television. He also made music videos and worked with the cult band "ABBA", for whom he directed the 1977 film "ABBA: The Movie". He moved from television to film and directed Swedish productions such as "A Lover And His Lass" (1974), "Der Gockel" and "Happy We". By the mid-1980s he had long since established himself in his homeland and made his international breakthrough as an author and director in 1985 with "My Life as a Dog" (1985). In his warm-hearted film, Hallström tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy in the 1950s. Audiences and critics worldwide were thrilled and Hallström received Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
The members of the "New York Film Critics Circle" named the production "Best Foreign Film." Hallström then brought the successful Astrid Lindgren stories "We Children from Bullerbü" (1986) and "News from Us Children from Bullerbü" (1986) to the screen. In 1991 he worked with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfuss on his first American film, "A Charming Disgust." This was followed in 1993 by the hit film "Gilbert Grape - Somewhere in Iowa", for which Hallström was director and producer. The film starred Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis and the young Leonardo DiCaprio, who received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a disabled boy. Hallström himself was nominated for an Oscar for Best Director for Gilbert Grape: Somewhere in Iowa. In 1994 he married the actress Lena Olin; together they became parents of two children.
After the failure of "The Power of Love" (1995) with Julia Roberts, Lasse Hallström returned to his strengths and delivered the drama "God's Work and the Devil's Contribution" in 1999. The critics were once again full of praise and Hallström was pleased to receive another Oscar nomination. The subtle comedy "Chocolat" (2000) with Juliette Binoche, Judy Dench and Johnny Depp was his next work, which was nominated for five "Oscars" in 2001. In 2002, Hallström's tragicomedy "Ship Reports" was released in German cinemas. With "An Untamed Life" from 2005, he brought a drama to cinemas that not only shined with its plot, but also with excellent actors such as Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman and Jennifer Lopez. Hallström settled privately in the USA and Sweden. In 2018 he directed the American fantasy film "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms".- Actor
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Weaver most recently directed the feature film Cupid For Christmas (starring Richard Kind) which premiered on HULU. Previously he directed the horror film Getaway, and the Christmas romantic comedy Santa Girl (starring Barry Bostwick and Jennifer Stone). He wrote, directed, and starred in the award-winning thriller Cut To the Chase (with Lance Henriksen) and the acclaimed romantic comedy 6 Month Rule (alongside Martin Starr, Natalie Morales and John Michael Higgins). Previous films he's written and directed include Weather Girl (with Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer and Jane Lynch) and Outside Sales. He also co-wrote and acted in Manic (Don Cheadle, Joseph Gordon- Levitt and Zooey Deschanel) which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
He has appeared in films such as Favor, Where We're Meant To Be, Junk, Deep Dark Canyon, Official Rejection, and The Good Old Boys opposite Tommy Lee Jones. His numerous episodic television credits include Wolf Pack, E.R., JAG, and The Middleman. He provided the voice of Peter Pan in the Disney animated feature Return To Never Land and still does the voice for Disney today.
A native of Louisiana, Weaver studied in New York City, Oxford University, and graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Political Science. He lives in Los Angeles where he works as a Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, and Distributor through his company Secret Identity Pictures.- Director
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Kim Farrant is a director best known for 'Strangerland', a feature starring Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving.
Her other directing work includes the action procedural 'Rush' (Endemol/Ten), short films 'Between Me' and 'Bombshell' (2010 Melbourne International Queer Film Festival Audience Award for Best Short Film, 2010 Melbourne International Queer Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Australian Short Queer Film and 2009 OutLook Audience Award for Best LGBT Short Film, Cork Film Festival). She also directed the television documentary series 'The Secret Side of Me' (SBS) as well as 'Insight - Out of the Saddle'. Kim's documentary feature 'Naked on the Inside' was a finalist at the Sydney Film Festival and was nominated for the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for Best Documentary.
Kim's short films have screened worldwide at festivals including Cannes; London; Cork; Bilboa; Film de Femmes, NYU International Student Film Festival; Destination Film Festival; St. Kilda Film Festival; and both Sydney and Melbourne Fringe Film Festivals. Her short film Sammy Blue was a finalist at the IF Awards in 2000 and placed second at Festival Internazionale Cinema Della Donne in Turin, Italy.
Kim began her career as an actor, training at the American New Theatre in LA with acting coach Eric Morris then studied The Journey at the Actors Centre in Sydney Australia. She has trained with NYC acting coach Susan Batson. She then went on to do screen-writing at the University of New South Wales before graduating with a Masters with Honours in Directing from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.- Cinematographer
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Dion Beebe is an Australian-South African cinematographer. He is best known for his collaboration with Rob Marshall in the films Chicago (2002), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Nine (2009), Into the Woods (2014) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018);
Beebe also worked with Michael Mann in Collateral (2004) and Miami Vice (2006).
He studied cinematography at the Australian Film Television and Radio School from 1987 to 1989.
For his work on Memoirs of a Geisha he won an Oscar for best achievement in cinematography.- Director
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Jennifer Lynch was born on 7 April 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Chained (2012), Boxing Helena (1993) and Surveillance (2008).- Producer
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Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went to school in Austin, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy in 1965.
A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, he attended Magdalen College, Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, but did not finish his thesis on Martin Heidegger, allegedly because of a disagreement with his advisor. Returning to the States, he taught philosophy at M.I.T. and published a translation of Heidegger's "Vom Wesen des Grundes" as "The Essence of Reasons". Malick did not get his PhD in philosophy: Instead, he attended the American Film Institute Conservatory in its inaugural year (1969), taking a Masters of Fine Arts degree in film-making. His masters thesis was the seventeen-minute comedy short Lanton Mills (1969), which starred Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton. Malick himself acted in the short.
At A.F.I., Malick made a lasting association with Jack Fisk, who would establish himself as an Oscar-nominated art director and production designer and serve as art director on all of Malick's films. He also picked up Mike Medavoy as an agent, who got Malick work doctoring scripts and marketed his original ones. He wrote the screenplay for the 1972 Alan Arkin trucker movie Deadhead Miles (1972), which was many miles from Harvard let along Oxford, and for the 1972 Paul Newman-Lee Marvin contemporary oater Pocket Money (1972), another departure from fields of academia. "Deadhead Miles" was dumped by Paramount as unreleasable and "Pocket Money", despite being headlined by two Top Ten Box Office stars, flopped. It was an inauspicious start to a legendary career, but it influenced Malick to begin directing his own scripts.
His first two films were the now critically acclaimed Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978). He then took a self-imposed retirement of nearly two decades from film-making before lensing his 1998 adaptation of James Jones's The Thin Red Line (1998), which was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including nods for Malick for directing and adapted screenplay.
Adopting a Kubrickian pace of movie-making, he directed The New World (2005) and the autobiographical The Tree of Life (2011) with gaps of only seven and six years, respectively, between release. However, he reportedly was working on ideas for "The Tree of Life" since the late 70s, including exposing footage that found its way into his finished film.
In an unprecedented burst of productivity, he shot his next four films, To the Wonder (2012), Knight of Cups (2015), an as-yet unnamed drama and the cosmic documentary Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2016) back-to-back during and immediately after completing the long editing process of "Tree of Life". Like Stanley Kubrick, Malick usually takes well over a year to edit his films. All three are highly anticipated by cineastes the world over.- Writer
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Although Delmer Daves obtained a law degree at Stanford University, he never had the opportunity to use it; while still in college, he obtained a job as a prop boy on The Covered Wagon (1923) and after graduation was hired by several film companies as a technical advisor on films with a college background. Soon afterward he entered films as an actor, and after appearing in several pictures he began collaborating on screenplays and original stories. He wrote scripts for many of Hollywood's best films of the 1930s and 1940s, including The Petrified Forest (1936), Love Affair (1939) and You Were Never Lovelier (1942). Turning director with the classic Destination Tokyo (1943), Daves often wrote and produced his own pictures. Of the many films he made, the westerns he did were especially close to his heart--as a youth he had spent much time living on reservations with Hopi and Navajo Indians.- Director
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Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making 8 mm films, Anderson cut his teeth shooting films on video and editing them from V.C.R. to V.C.R.
Part of Anderson's artistic D.N.A. comes from his father, who hosted a late night horror show in Cleveland. His father knew a number of oddball celebrities such as Robert Ridgely, an actor who often appeared in Mel Brooks' films and would later play "The Colonel" in Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). Anderson was also very much shaped by growing up in "The Valley", specifically the suburban San Fernando Valley of greater Los Angeles. The Valley may have been immortalized in the 1980s for its mall-hopping "Valley Girls", but for Anderson it was a slightly seedy part of suburban America. You were close to Hollywood, yet you weren't there. Would-bes and burn-outs populated the area. Anderson's experiences growing up in "The Valley" have no doubt shaped his artistic self, especially since three of his four theatrical features are set in the Valley.
Anderson got into film-making at a young age. His most significant amateur film was The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), a sort of mock-documentary a la This Is Spinal Tap (1984), about a once-great pornography star named Dirk Diggler. After enrolling in N.Y.U.'s film program for two days, Anderson got his tuition back and made his own short film, Cigarettes & Coffee (1993). He also worked as a production assistant on numerous commercials and music videos before he got the chance to make his first feature, something he liked to call Sydney, but would later become known to the public as Hard Eight (1996). The film was developed and financed through The Sundance Lab, not unlike Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992). Anderson cast three actors whom he would continue working with in the future: Altman veteran Philip Baker Hall, the husky and lovable John C. Reilly and, in a small part, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who so far has been featured in all four of Anderson's films. The film deals with a guardian angel type (played by Hall) who takes down-on-his-luck Reilly under his wing. The deliberately paced film featured a number of Anderson trademarks: wonderful use of source light, long takes and top-notch acting. Yet the film was reedited (and retitled) by Rysher Entertainment against Anderson's wishes. It was admired by critics, but didn't catch on at the box office. Still, it was enough for Anderson to eventually get his next movie financed. "Boogie Nights" was, in a sense, a remake of "The Dirk Diggler Story", but Anderson threw away the satirical approach and instead painted a broad canvas about a makeshift family of pornographers. The film was often joyous in its look at the 1970s and the days when pornography was still shot on film, still shown in theatres, and its actors could at least delude themselves into believing that they were movie stars. Yet "Boogie Nights" did not flinch at the dark side, showing a murder and suicide, literally in one (almost) uninterrupted shot, and also showing the lives of these people deteriorate, while also showing how their lives recovered.
Anderson not only worked with Hall, Reilly and Hoffman again, he also worked with Julianne Moore, Melora Walters, William H. Macy and Luis Guzmán. Collectively, Anderson had something that was rare in U.S. cinema: a stock company of top-notch actors. Aside from the above mentioned, Anderson also drew terrific performances from Burt Reynolds and Mark Wahlberg, two actors whose careers were not exactly going full-blast at the time of "Boogie Nights", but who found themselves to be that much more employable afterwards.
The success of "Boogie Nights" gave Anderson the chance to really go for broke in Magnolia (1999), a massive mosaic that could dwarf Altman's Nashville (1975) in its number of characters.
Anderson was awarded a "Best Director" award at Cannes for Punch-Drunk Love (2002).- Actress
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Renny Grames is known for Just Let Go (2015), Riot (2015) and K-9 Adventures: Legend of the Lost Gold (2014).- Actress
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Renny Grames is known for Just Let Go (2015), Riot (2015) and K-9 Adventures: Legend of the Lost Gold (2014).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Emma Elizabeth Tillman was born in 1986 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. She is a director and actress, known for The Wheel (2018), Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell (2019) and Real Violence (2013). She has been married to Father John Misty since September 2013.- Actress
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Skyler M. Day is known for The Legendary Bear Lake Monster, In Emma's Footsteps (2018) and The Santa Box (2020).- Director
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Sofia Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA as Sofia Carmina Coppola. She is a director, known for Somewhere (2010), Lost in Translation (2003), and Marie Antoinette (2006). She has been married to Thomas Mars since August 27, 2011. They have two daughters, Romy and Cosima. She was previously married to Spike Jonze.- Actress
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Jennifer Marie Morrison was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest child of teachers David and Judy Morrison. She was raised in Arlington Heights, IL, with a younger sister and brother. She attended the same school her parents taught at, Prospect High School. As a child, she did some work as a model. After graduating from high school, she attended Loyola University in Chicago, where she studied Theater and English. She then moved on to study at the Steppenwolf Theater Company, before relocating to Los Angeles, California to pursue her acting career. Morrison's movie debut came in 1994, playing the daughter of Richard Gere and Sharon Stone in Intersection (1994). Success followed with various film and television roles, including the lead in Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000). She came to wide scale public attention in 2004 for her role as Dr. Allison Cameron in the television series House (2004), for which she was nominated for a prestigious Screen Actors Guild Award. Since leaving "House M.D.", her career has continued to progress with roles in Star Trek (2009), How I Met Your Mother (2005) and Warrior (2011).- Producer
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Lisa Joy was born in New Jersey. Her writing career began on the ABC show Pushing Daisies. In 2011, she joined the staff of Burn Notice as a co-producer. She is co-creator and executive producer of the HBO show Westworld. Her spec script, Reminiscence, was on the Black List in 2013 and is in development at Legendary.- Writer
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Eric Champnella was born in Michigan, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Alex & Me (2018), Mr. 3000 (2004) and Thunderstruck (2012).- Writer
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Emmy Award nominated Writer and Executive Producer of Tin Man, the highest rated miniseries in the history of the Syfy Channel; Co-Creator/Executive Producer of the hit cult classic TV show The Pretender; Novelist; Graphic Novelist; Speaker; and Social Interactive Media Marketing Consultant.
Along with his writing partner, Craig W. Van Sickle, Steven has written, produced and/or directed over 200 hours of entertainment programing, including feature films, TV movies, and has worked on series as varied as 24, NCIS, Medical Investigation, Alien Nation, Murder She Wrote and many more. He continues to expand his brand by creatively interacting and collaborating with his fan-base in ways that are redefining fandom on a global immersive interactive level. He has taught workshops, participated on panels and spoken at numerous conferences and Cons in the Writer, Geek, Tech, Entertainment, SciFi, Branding and Social Media worlds.
To re-imagine The Pretender brand in this quickly expanding virtual world, Steven has become a trailblazer in Trans-media, or as he prefers to call it, Social Interactive Media/Marketing, SIMM, to grow and engage a global fan-base in an immersive entertainment experience. He sees fans as being an integral part of the creative process and not merely spectators. Collaborating with fans from around the world, ThePretenderLives.com now houses a Global Interactive Think Tank, where fans are encouraged to be part of the creative process. This G.I.F.T. has morphed into the engine behind the re-energizing of the brand as it is reintroduced into the entertainment spectrum as feature films, television, novels, graphic novels, animation, gaming and much more.
Steven resides in the Los Angeles, California, area with his wife and daughters.- Director
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Born in California and raised in Nebraska, Ashley Eakin is a disabled director and writer. Her latest film, Forgive Us Our Trespasses, was developed as part of Netflix's Emerging Filmmaker Initiative and is currently live on the streaming platform.
For television, Eakin is developing a half-hour series with 20th Century for FX. The project is inspired by her award-winning short film Single, produced in the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. The project premiered at SXSW in 2020 and received the Special Jury Recognition Award. The film has played in over 40 festivals winning 8 awards and 3 nominations. The project was also the recipient of the New York Women in Film Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Grant. Eakin recently directed two episodes of Best Foot Forward for Apple TV+ and an episode of Brie Larson's new series Growing Up for Disney+.
For film, she is co-writing a thriller for Netflix with her husband Shawn Lovering and is attached to direct. The writing pair also adapted a book for Wayfarer Studios in 2022.
In 2021 Ashley was a participant in the Powderkeg Fuse Incubator, curated by Paul Feig. They produced her short film Roommates selected for Slamdance and SXSW 2022. She was also selected for the Commercial Director's Diversity Program. In 2020 Eakin was hired as a Staff Writer on an Animated Netflix series, featuring a character with a disability.
Prior to working on her own projects, in 2019 Eakin worked for and shadowed Mark Pellington on the Quibi series Survive filmed in the Italian Alps starring Sophie Turner and Corey Hawkins. Prior to this, Eakin was the assistant to film director Jon M. Chu. In 2017 she spent 5 months in Malaysia and Singapore working on his critically-acclaimed box-office hit Crazy Rich Asians. Prior to working for Chu, Eakin worked for Beacon Pictures, in the writer's office of the NBC scripted drama The Night Shift and for 10x10 Entertainment, which produces America's Next Top Model.
Eakin's short documentary The Details, featuring Henry Golding and Awkwafina was selected for the 2018 Hamilton Film Festival. She also directed a short film celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Cancer for College, which features CFC spokesman Will Ferrell and was screened at a sold-out event at The Greek Theatre. Her short film Blue premiered at the 2019 LA Shorts Fest last summer.
In 2017 Eakin was featured in a SoulPancake video talking about her rare bone condition, Olliers disease and Maffucci Syndrome. The video went viral reaching over 50 million views. Her medical journey has immensely influenced her passion to pursue stories that advocate more diverse representation for people with disabilities.
Eakin is represented by United Talent Agency and Artists First Management.- Writer
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CK Kane is a writer from Pennsylvania who after dropping out of high school eventually studied at The New School, The School of Visual Arts, AFI Conservatory and Universiteit van Amsterdam. "Behind Some Dark Cloud" is Kane's feature directorial debut. CK also publishes fiction and poetry and has a forthcoming novel.- Director
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Bill Zebub is known for Night of the Pumpkin (2010), Jesus, the Total Douchebag (2011) and The Worst Horror Movie Ever Made (2005).- Producer
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Lynn Stevenson was born in San Francisco, California, USA. She is known for Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (2005), The Alamo Documentary (2004) and Biography (1987).- Director
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William is a writer and director of BAFTA award winning Film and Television and Cannes Lion award winning commercials. Hailing from rural Norfolk, England.
His debut feature film Gwen (2018), 'a red raw piece of class conscious folk horror' (Danny Leigh), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2018, won two Welsh BAFTA's and was British Independant Film Award nominated, Gwen (2018) long listed in 11 categories.
William's latest project The Beekeeper (2020), a documentary about a beekeeper losing her home to a nuclear power plant will have its European premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
William's script for his second BFI backed feature film Gun Dog, a rural revenge thriller, has been selected for the last round of the Sundance Script lab 2021.
In 2007, William attended the University for Creative Arts in Farnham, England. Where he studied a Foundation Degree in Art and Design before beginning a BA in Screen Art, also at the University for the Creative Arts.
Williams first year student film Who's Afraid of the Water Sprite? (2009) won 10 international awards including the 'Royal Television Award for Best Drama'. 'The Cambridge University Film Festival' was subsequently renamed 'The Water Sprite Film Festival' after the film. 'The Royal Television Society' proclaimed the short as 'The best student film we have ever seen'.
William followed up Who's Afraid of the Water Sprite? (2009) with two graduation films in 2010. Bovine (2010) a 35mm short film about a young boy on a farm which screened at the 'Berlinale Film Festival' and The Little (2010) a dark fantasy about a man and a snail which won the 'Coca-Cola Cinemagic Innovation Award' in addition to screening at many festivals world wide.
After graduation William signed to Independent Talent for representation in Film and TV.
In 2011 William shot the short film No Escape (2011) for the London Sci-Fi 48 hour film challenge. A film which resulted in William being signed by The Mill [gb] as a commercials director.
In 2018 William signed with CAA after the world premiere of his debut feature film Gwen (2018) at the Toronto International Film Festival.- Producer
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Alexis Bloom is known for Divide and Conquer (2018), We Steal Secrets (2013) and Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016). She is married to Fisher Stevens. They have one child.