DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS 2021
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Andreas Fontana was born in 1982 in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Azor (2021), Pedro M, 1981 (2015) and Les Diplomates.- Actress
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Megan Marie Park is a Canadian actress and singer. She is known for her work in the ABC Family television series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008), and romantic comedy film What If (2013) and Charlie Bartlett (2007). Her first major roles came with a guest spot on the Lifetime series Angela's Eyes (2006). She has also played Bev in A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song (2011). Megan Park was born in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada as Megan Marie Park. She got chance to grow up with her entire family. Her parents were intellectuals and always insisted her to follow dreams and carry academic career side by side. Megan is no exception. She's fit, blonde, ultra-cool, and uber-talented. She graduated from Oakridge Secondary School in London, Ontario. Megan began her acting career with small parts starting at age 6. The experience only fortified her love of acting, and she thus deepened and expanded her professional resumé in the years. She has won honors for speaking at least seven languages. Actress Megan Park first appeared in the 2003 movie This Time Around and since then, she has worked her way into playing more substantial roles. Megan created a band with singer Codi Caraco called Frank and Derol, in which she formerly sang and played bass guitar. The girl band also includes pop star Miley Cyrus's older half-sister, Brandi Cyrus. As of 2010, Megan has left the band to focus on her acting career in the TV series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008), The show ran from 2008 to 2013 and the actress received a lot of praise for her work in it. Megan also appeared, together with Tyler Hilton, in a music video called Gloriana: Kissed You Good Night (2012). Megan was also a part of the Original Kids Theatre program. With wide green eyes, blonde hair and charming look, Megan has chosen as the Rising Star Award by the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. She loves to spend her spare time with her close friends.- Director
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Jude Weng is known for Finding 'Ohana (2021), Only Murders in the Building (2021) and The Good Place (2016).- Editor
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Kim Chang-ju was born on 7 October 1972 in Seoul, South Korea. He is an editor and director, known for Snowpiercer (2013), A Hard Day (2014) and Hard Hit (2021).- Producer
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Jeymes Samuel, also known as The Bullitts, is an English writer, director, singer-songwriter and music producer from London.
In 2013 Jeymes worked alongside Baz Luhrmann and Jay Z on the music for the blockbuster The Great Gatsby. Jeymes served as the film's Executive Music Consultant.
2013 also saw Jeymes debut his directorial debut They Die by Dawn at SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. The film is a western based on real life characters and takes place in the town of Langston, Oklahoma in 1890.
Jeymes wrote and directed They Die by Dawn which coincided with The Bullitts' debut album 'They Die By Dawn & Other Short Stories'.
They Die by Dawn is a prelude to the feature film The Notorious Nine which begins shooting 2014.- Actress
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Robin Gayle Wright was born in Dallas, Texas, to Gayle (Gaston), a national director at Mary Kay, and Freddie Wright, a pharmaceutical executive. She grew up in San Diego, California. She started her professional career as a model in 1980 at age 14, and worked both in Paris and Japan. After finishing high school she decided to become an actress. She got a role on the soap opera Santa Barbara (1984), for which she was nominated three times for a Daytime Emmy. During the first season of the show, she fell in love with fellow cast member Dane Witherspoon, whom she married in 1986. Meanwhile, she starred in The Princess Bride (1987), playing the title role. After leaving the cast of Santa Barbara, she got the starring role in Denial (1990) alongside Jason Patric. In 1990, she was in State of Grace (1990), where she met actor Sean Penn, by whom she had a daughter, Dylan Frances, and a son, Hopper Jack. After taking some time off, Robin was back to Hollywood with one the best roles of her career: She played Tara in The Playboys (1992). She was extremely stunning and brilliant. Then, she acted in Toys (1992) with Robin Williams, and she gave a funny performance. In 1994, Wright was in the blockbuster hit Forrest Gump (1994), with Tom Hanks. For her performance as Jenny, she got a nomination for a Golden Globe Award. She got a small role in The Crossing Guard (1995), which starred Jack Nicholson. After turning down 14 roles, she played the title role of MGM/UA's Moll Flanders (1996), directed by Pen Densham, and co-starring Morgan Freeman and Stockard Channing. She then starred in Erin Dignam's Loved (1997), with William Hurt.- Actor
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Francis Elliott "Fran" Kranz is an American film, television and Broadway actor. Kranz was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He started acting in third and fourth grade, and knew from a very young age that he wanted to become an actor. He graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1999 and later from Yale University in 2004, where he was a member of the improve comedy group The Ex!t Players. He is best known for his portrayal of Topher Brink in the science fiction drama series Dollhouse. He had prominent roles in the films The Cabin in the Woods and Much Ado About Nothing. In 2012, he played Bernard in Death of a Salesman beginning a career on Broadway that continued with 2014's You Can't Take It with You.- Director
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Simon McQuoid is known for Mortal Kombat (2021).- Writer
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Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic is a writer, director, and producer born in Dubrovnik and based in New York. Her directorial feature debut, Murina, executive produced by Martin Scorcesse, premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in Directors Fortnight section and was honored with the the Caméra d'Or Award presented to the Best First Film and has proceeded to garner critical acclaim as one of the Best Films of 2022. Murina was nominated for three Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Best First Feature, Best Breakthrough Performer and Best Cinematography. Her short Into the Blue was awarded at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for a Student Academy Award. Antoneta is an alumna of the Résidence du Festival of Cinéfondation, Jerusalem Film Lab, the Berlinale Talent Lab, Sarajevo Talent Lab, La Femis Producing Atelier and Marcie Bloom Fellowship. She holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University in New York, a Masters in Producing from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia and is a member of the Academy of The Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences, Oscars.- Actor
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Daniel Brühl was born in Barcelona, Spain. His father was German TV director Hanno Brühl (1937-2010), who was born in São Paulo, Brazil. His Spanish mother was a teacher. He also has a brother and a sister, Oliver and Miriam. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Cologne, Germany, where he grew up and attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium. Brought up in a fully multilingual home, he speaks fluent German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Catalan.- Director
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Writer, director and producer Manjari Makijany's debut feature 'Skater Girl', a Netflix original, is a coming of age sports-drama and India's first skateboarding feature. The film follows a teen in rural India who challenges the status quo and fights against all odds to follow her dreams of becoming a skater and competing in the national championship.
Her second feature 'Spin' is a live-action narrative for Disney that follows Rhea, a relatable Indian American teen whose journey of self-discovery empowers her to find her true passion of creating music infused with her South Asian culture.
Makijany comes from a film family of actors and filmmakers in Mumbai and set her mind on directing at an early age. Her journey as a director took off with her critically acclaimed short film 'The Last Marble,' which won Best of Fest at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. She followed that success with the short films 'The Corner Table' and 'I See You,' which won Best Short at the Asian American International Film Festival and was showcased in Cannes at the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase.
She went on to become one of eight directors selected for the prestigious American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women and the second Indian woman to be part of the program since its inception in 1974. She was consequently selected to participate in the 'Universal Pictures Directors Intensive' and the 'Fox Filmmakers Lab'.
Makijany's vision for storytelling and her diverse film experience, both in India and America, has served as a fertile ground to craft her unique voice as a filmmaker. She heads a boutique production company in Los Angeles, California, Skatepark Films, with her husband and producing partner, Emmanuel Pappas.- Writer
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Born in Rye, New York, writer/director/producer/author Justine Bateman's directorial feature film debut of her own script, Violet (2021), stars Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey, and Justin Theroux. The film premiered at SXSW and The Toronto Film Festival in 2021. It was released in theaters, to much acclaim, in Oct 2021.
Her best-selling first book, "Fame," a non-fiction about society's need for its presence, was published in 2018 by Akashic Books. Her second book, "Face," is also an Akashic Books best-seller and was published in 2021.
Bateman has an impressive former acting resume that includes Family Ties (1982), Satisfaction (1988), Arrested Development (2003), and many more. She has earned a Golden Globe nomination and two Emmy nominations. An advocate for Net Neutrality, Justine holds a degree from UCLA in Computer Science and Digital Media Management. Her producing credits include Easy to Assemble (2008) with Illeana Douglas and Jared Drake's Z (2011). Bateman wrote and produced her directorial film short debut, Five Minutes (2017), which premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival and was chosen by seven more festivals, including the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. It was one of the winners of the 2019 Amazon Prime Video Direct Festival Stars Program and was chosen by both Short of the Week and Vimeo's Staff Picks. Her follow-up film short was the drama, PUSH (2017).- Writer
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Lissette Feliciano, is a writer, director, actress and a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, whose work often centers around socially conscious narratives. She has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute and the UNHCR. She was selected as one of SHOOT Magazines new directors to watch in 2018.- Editor
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Prano Bailey-Bond is a director and writer originally from Wales. She was named a 2021 'Director to Watch' by Variety and a Screen International 'Star of Tomorrow' in 2018. Prano's debut feature film, CENSOR, starring Niamh Algar and supported by the BFI, Film4 and Ffilm Cymru Wales, opened the Midnight section of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and went on to be selected for the Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section.- Producer
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Pascual Sisto was born in 1975 in Ferrol, Spain. He is a producer and director, known for John and the Hole (2021), Océano (2003) and Steps (2017).- Actress
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Rebecca Hall was born in London, England, the daughter of Peter Hall, a stage director and founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Maria Ewing, an opera singer. Her father was English. Her mother, who is American, is of Dutch and African-American origin. Her parents separated when she was still young, and they divorced in 1990. She has a half-brother, Edward Hall, who is a theatre director, and four other half-siblings, including theatre designer Lucy Hall, veteran TV drama producer Christopher Hall, and Jennifer Caron Hall, a writer and painter.- Producer
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Jerrod Carmichael was born on 6 April 1987 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for On the Count of Three (2021), 8 (2017) and The Carmichael Show (2015).- Writer
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Iuli Gerbase is a writer and director born in Brazil. Her debut feature film, The Pink Cloud, premiered at Sundance in 2021, in the World Dramatic Competition. The film made Variety's list of the 15 Best Films From The Sundance Film Festival and was called "A refined, accomplished debut" by them. That same year, the film made The Atlantic's 6 Best Indie Films From Sundance where it was called "A clever and surprising Brazilian movie that was among the best offerings at this year's Sundance Film Festival". Iuli graduated in Cinema and has a Master's degree in Creative Writing.