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- Jesse Briandi was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Carol Militello, a hairstylist , and Frank Briandi, a professional salesman. He graduated from Riverview High School in Sarasota, Fl and went on to the Los Angeles Film School for Actors.
He began writing and performing in plays while at grammar and middle school in New York and managed to write and publish a children's book called "My Pet Cheetah." During his high school years Jesse Briandi did many stand-up performances across Hollywood including improv, and various monologue's, and voice overs for the film Deadly Punketts (2014), and Club Lingerie (2015), and various work on More Horror Hollywood (2011). - A cult figure in auteur work, Kate Moran has been living and working in Paris and New York since receiving her BFA in acting at the conservatory Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
She has worked with Yann Gonzalez since his first short film. The film maker has written roles specifically for Kate in three short films, as well as his first feature You and the Night (2013), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and his second Knife + Heart, starring opposite Vanessa Paradis and Nicolas Maury. The film was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018.
Her encounter with Rebecca Zlotowski led to the two writing their first theatre piece together, Contrechamp, which premiered at the Festival d'Avignon in 2015 and Kate starred in Rebecca's film for the Opera de Paris, 3eme scene entitled 09/06/2015, as well as making an appearance in Planetarium (2016). She has collaborated on various projects with Bertrand Bonello, including his exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris, an adaption of the cult classic Rose Poussiere by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, and his film Saint Laurent (2014).
One of her most iconoclastic role's was in Philip Glass and Robert Wilson 's opera, Einstein on the Beach. Created in 1976, it was remounted by Glass and Wilson in 2012 and spent over three years touring worldwide. Kate was cast in the lead role originated by Lucinda Childs. - Writer
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Rafi Pitts' films have attained acclaim and awards around the globe. Pitts' first feature, Season Five (1997), premiered in the Venice Film Festival. His second, Sanam (2000) was hailed by French critics and compared to The 400 Blows (1959). In 2003, Pitts presented his controversial feature documentary, Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (2003) in the Official Selection of the Locarno Film Festival . It's Winter (2006) premiered in the Berlin Competition, and one year later, the Seattle International Film Festival honored Pitts with the Emerging Masters Award for his work. In 2010, Pitts' fifth feature The Hunter (2010) was also nominated for the Berlin Golden Bear as well as Best Actor for his performance in the leading role. In 2012 Ben Affleck invited Pitts to join him as an actor as well as his personal consultant on the feature film Argo (2012), which went on to win the Oscar for Best Motion Picture the following year. In 2016 Pitts premiered Soy Nero (2016) in the Berlin Film Festival and for the third time running he was nominated for the Golden Bear.
Born 1967 in Iran, Pitts spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. During the war between Iran and Iraq, in 1981, he fled the country and moved to Britain. In 1991 Pitts graduated from Harrow College - Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) Degree in Film and Photography. His first short, In Exile (1991), was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90's, Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Reza Dormishian was born in Tehran, Iran in 1981. At a young age, he was drawn to the world of cinema. In 1997 he started writing as a film critic for several newspapers and later as executive editor for cinema books and magazines. He also worked as a screen writer. Dormishian had several collaborations with prominent directors such as Dariush Mehrjui, Fereydoun Jeyrani, and Alireza Davoudnejad.