Talent

1. Rick Jaffa

Rick Jaffa was born on May 8, 1956 in Dallas County, Texas, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Jurassic World (2015). He has been married to Amanda Silver since June 29, 1989. They have two children.

2. Amanda Silver

Writer | Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Amanda Silver was born on May 24, 1963 in the USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Jurassic World (2015). She has been married to Rick Jaffa since July 29, 1989. They have two children.

3. Sidney Buchman

Writer | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The son of a Russian émigré clothing merchant, Sidney Buchman was born in Duluth, Minnesota, on March 27 1902. He initially attended the University of Minnesota. After his family moved to New York, he continued his studies at Columbia University, graduating in 1923. The following year, he travelled...

4. Johnathan McClain

Actor | Mad Men

Johnathan McClain is an actor and writer whose diverse career spans the worlds of theatre, film, television, and publishing.

As an actor, Johnathan's extensive resumé includes a notable turn as Megan Draper's agent, Alan Silver, on the final season of AMC's critically acclaimed drama Mad Men. ...

5. Curtis Smith

Assistant_director | The Messenger

Curtis Smith graduated from Specs Howard School of Broadcasting Arts in Southfield, Michigan in 1997. He is the oldest of six children. His father was a Construction Contractor and his mother was a homemaker. Of his five siblings he has one sister and four brothers. His youngest brother, Lemarze J ...

6. Courtney Glaude

Producer | The Reading

Courtney Glaudé is a filmmaker based in Houston, TX. He has written, directed and produced multiple award-winning shorts, including Best Short Drama for "Row" at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival and Best Short for "Tag" at Atlanta's Bronze Lens Film Festival. His 2022 feature film debut, "The ...

7. Michael Hurst

Writer | New Blood

Michael Hurst was born on March 3, 1973 in Shoreham, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for New Blood (1999), Femme Fatales (2011) and Paradox (2016).

8. Ken Bevel

Actor | Fireproof

Ken Bevel is known for Fireproof (2008) and Courageous (2011).

9. Alan Trezza

Writer | We Summon the Darkness

Alan Trezza is known for We Summon the Darkness (2019), Burying the Ex (2014) and Burying the Ex (2008).

10. Dan Trachtenberg

Director | Prey

Dan Trachtenberg is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He directed the 2016 horror-thriller film 10 Cloverfield Lane which earned him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing - First-Time Feature Film. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show ...

11. Mike Flanagan

Writer | The Fall of the House of Usher

Mike Flanagan is a prolific writer, director, and editor. He entered into an exclusive overall deal with Amazon Studios in 2023 for television projects (after a similar exclusive deal with Netflix from 2018-2022), and has made feature films for Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Netflix and more. ...

12. Shaun Grant

Writer | Nitram

Shaun Grant is known for Nitram (2021), Berlin Syndrome (2017) and The Snowtown Murders (2011).

13. Max Landis

Writer | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Max Landis was born on August 3, 1985 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016), Chronicle (2012) and Mr. Right (2015).

14. Marion Cotillard

Actress | La Môme

Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.

Raised in Orléans, France, she ...

15. Noah Baumbach

Writer | The Squid and the Whale

Born in Brooklyn in 1969 Noah Baumbach is the son of two film critics, Georgia Brown and Jonathan Baumbach (also a writer). His studies at Vassar College were the subject of his first film (made as he was 26 years old), Kicking and Screaming (1995). His second major picture, made ten years later, ...

16. Zack Snyder

Director | 300

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 ...

17. Neil Marshall

Director | Dog Soldiers

Neil Marshall was born on May 25, 1970 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for Dog Soldiers (2002), The Descent (2005) and Doomsday (2008). He was previously married to Axelle Carolyn.

18. Joan Harrison

Writer | Rebecca

In 1933, she was hired to be a secretary by Alfred Hitchcock. She soon graduated to reading books and scripts, writing synopses and contributing to scripts. In 1939, she accompanied Hitchcock to Hollywood, working as his assistant and as a writer. In 1941, she was hired as a scriptwriter by MGM. In...

19. Eric Ambler

Writer | A Night to Remember

Eric Ambler was born on June 28, 1909 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for A Night to Remember (1958), The Purple Plain (1954) and The Cruel Sea (1953). He was married to Joan Harrison and Louise Smith Crombie. He died on October 22, 1998 in London, England, UK.

20. Oscar Lee Freeman

Writer | Therapeía

Oscar Lee Freeman is known for Therapeía (2016), Brooklyn After Hours and Finding Jenny (2022).

21. Kristin Iris Johnson

Producer | Wicked City

Kristin Iris Johnson was born in Chicago, IL. She is a queer, Showrunner, Screenwriter, and Film Producer. Having a lifelong gift for storytelling Kristin attended Columbia College Chicago where she studied both Film/Video and Fiction Writing before getting her BA in Fiction Writing. She has ...

22. Emeric Pressburger

Writer | The Red Shoes

Educated at the Universities of Prague and Stuttgart, Emeric Pressburger worked as a journalist in Hungary and Germany and an author and scriptwriter in Berlin and Paris. He was a Hungarian Jew, chased around Europe (he worked on films for UFA in Berlin and Paris) before World War II, finally ...

23. Michael Powell

Director | Peeping Tom

The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...

24. Josh Safdie

Director | Uncut Gems

Born and raised in New York City: in both Queens & Manhattan. He attended the school of Communication at Boston University. He often collaborates with his brother Benny Safdie. The brothers have both cited early experiences in front of their father's camera as the reasons for their pursing ...

25. Benny Safdie

Actor | Good Time

Born and raised in New York City: in both Queens & Manhattan. He attended the school of Communication at Boston University. He often collaborates with his brother Josh Safdie. He is a director, writer, editor and actor known for Daddy Longlegs(2009),Heaven Knows What(2014), Good Time (2017), Uncut ...

26. Joanna Hogg

Director | The Souvenir

Joanna Hogg was born on March 20, 1960 in London, England, UK. She is a director and writer, known for The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir: Part II (2021) and Unrelated (2007).

27. Toiya Tillman

Producer | 6th Urban One Honors 2024

Toiya Tillman is known for 6th Urban One Honors 2024 (2024), Who the Bleep Is That? (2023) and What's Cookin ATL. She has been married to Benny Tillman since June 22, 2006. They have two children.

28. Andreas Katsulas

Actor | Babylon 5

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Andreas from a working-class Greek-American family. Attracted from early childhood to being on stage when at 4 his mother took him to see a community theater performance, he took theatre as an extra-curricular activity in high school. He then majored in it at St. Louis ...

29. Cord Jefferson

Writer | American Fiction

Cord Jefferson was born on January 26, 1982 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for American Fiction (2023), The Good Place (2016) and Watchmen (2019).

30. Ayanna Floyd

Producer | Falling Skies

Ayanna Floyd is known for Falling Skies (2011), Private Practice (2007) and The Best Man: The Final Chapters (2022).

31. Kenneth Vanwright

Editor | Phoenix Rising the Webisode

Kenneth Vanwright is known for Phoenix Rising the Webisode (2016), Jacquilynn the Ripper (2023) and No More (2016).

32. Jamie Bernadette

Actress | She Rides Shotgun

Jamie Bernadette was born Jamie Bernadette Watkins, the ninth child in her family. She has established herself in the film and television industry with over 100 credits to her name. Some of her most recent credits include a recurring role on Lifetime's TV show "Keeping Up with the Joneses" starring...

33. Walter Robert Duckworth

Actor | Final 48

Walter Robert Duckworth is known for Final 48 (2021), Elbow Grease (2016) and Kelsey Grammer's Historic Battles for America (2022).

34. Eric Monte

Writer | Good Times

Kenneth Williams, most popularly known by his stage name Eric Monte, was born and raised in the economically impoverished Cabrini-Green Housing project in Chicago. It was an environment filled with gangs, high unemployment, and drugs. When Monte was five years old, he loved to play cowboys and ...

35. Scott Sanders

Writer | Black Dynamite

Scott Sanders is known for Black Dynamite (2009), Thick as Thieves (1999) and Black Dynamite (2011).

36. S. Craig Zahler

Writer | Bone Tomahawk

S. Craig Zahler was born on January 23, 1973 in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Bone Tomahawk (2015), Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017).

37. Jessie Jalee

Hurricane Season

"Motivated by confidence and resistant to failure," is how Jessie Jalee Blake pursues her goals and firmly upholds her objectives. Born in an extremely large family, standing out from the rest of her siblings was not difficult because of Jessie Jalee's humorous personality and imagination. Although...

38. Alexander Woo

Producer | True Blood

Alexander Woo is known for True Blood (2008), The Terror (2018) and 3 Body Problem (2024).

39. Remi Weekes

Director | His House

Remi Weekes is known for His House (2020), Exhale (2009) and Fright Bites (2016).

40. Deronte Smith

Producer | Prosper

Deronte Smith is an award-winning producer, author, public speaker, director and president of Infinity Global Media. First known for his global success authoring young adult fiction, his projects span six international film markets. The Atlanta-based showrunner continues to develop new ...