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- Born in Porterville, California in 1928, A. John Graves was writing songs and playing piano for school and vaudeville type shows at the age of eight, with his first professional engagement coming six years later. Through the World War II years, his high school dance band had a corner on most of the dances in Tulare County, since all the other musicians had been drafted. His other early professional musical experiences were with former big band jazz players who were too old for the service. (This is where he learned many of the some three thousand songs now included in his request book, The Memory Flogger).
Upon graduating from The College of the Pacific, he went to Los Angeles to try starting a career in broadcasting. When his money ran out, he went on the road with a small comedy band, replacing Stan Freberg. Besides playing for dancing, they did three floor shows a night, and Graves was featured as a dead-pan comedian. After a tour with Rick Fay's Krazy Kats, he settled in Los Angeles and started a family while earning a living playing in piano bars.
Since his efforts to break into broadcasting had been unsuccessful, he finally decided to start at the very bottom, and became a page at NBC. Six months later he was selecting recorded background music for Matinee Theater daily dramas, followed by an eight year stint as an NBC Broadcast Standards Program Policy Editor (so-called censor). This led to the position which had become his goal: Manager of Film Programs, where he supervised for NBC such shows as Bonanza, I Dream of Jeannie, Ironside, The Man from Uncle, Then Came Bronson, The Debbie Reynolds Show, The Monkees, and a series shot in London with Lord Lew Grade called The Strange Report.
In 1970 the management changed at MGM-TV and Graves moved over to become Director of Current Programming. He was the executive in charge of the award-winning Medical Center, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, GE Monogram Documentaries, and several syndicated talk shows. Since executive regimes at this level tend to change about every two years, 1972 gave him the opportunity to become a producer. He helmed Assignment Vienna, with Robert Conrad, an eight hour miniseries filmed on location in Vienna, Austria for MGM-TV and the ABC Television Network.
The newly formed South Australian Film Corporation was looking for someone with network, major studio, and international experience to head up their feature film and television area in1974, and Graves accepted the challenge. Under his guidance, the Corporation made its first major feature success: Peter Weir's critically acclaimed Picnic at Hanging Rock, of which Graves was Executive Producer. During his two year contract, he was also responsible for the BBC's feature Storm Boy, the re-editing of Sunday Too Far Away, and a TV feature movie, The Sound of Love.
Back in the U.S., there followed a series of development deals with Universal, Zev Braun Productions, and EMI. In 1981 Graves became a partner in L.A. House Productions and made a pilot for a syndicated sports show and produced corporate and institutional projects. At the same time, he enrolled in a graduate program at California State University at Northridge with the goal of teaching upon getting his master's degree in Mass Communication. After ten gratifying years as an associate professor in the Communication Department at Central Missouri State University, plus an exchange professorship in Wales, he retired to Pagosa Springs, Colorado as Professor Emeritus. He's very active in the local show business scene, as writer, performer, producer, and consultant.
Throughout this varied career, he has always played several nights a week as a single pianist, side man, or band leader at private parties, including affairs for Judy Garland, Groucho Marx, Danny Thomas, and John Wayne. He has recorded, been a staff pianist at KLAC-TV and on the first Betty White show, was musical director for the Gloria Hart Show on KLAC-TV, and has accompanied such artists as George Burns, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney, Rudy Vallee, Redd Foxx, Arthur Duncan, and Jimmy Durante.
Of the myriad of famous people Graves has met and/or worked with, he recalls associations with three that particularly stand out in his memory: a morning with Lord Bertrand Russell at his home in Wales, an afternoon tea with Katharine Hepburn at her home in Beverly Hills, and the delight of having Eric Sevareid as a house guest for three days in Warrensburg, Missouri.
After almost fifty years of evaluating other people's writing, he's now doing his own, as well as teaching a correspondence course in Creative Writing for Radio, Television, and Film for Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado. He also enjoys playing with different jazz groups, and at clubs and private parties for people who love the music of jazz, standards, and showtunes.
"Boom, Bust, and Battle" was a radio series he originated to explore the music and culture of the 20s, 30, and 40s. It became the basis for a musical variety show he produced with John Porter featuring a Dixieland band, singers, dancers, and comedians celebrating those three decades. This year (04) he created an original musical revue based on the life work of Richard Rodgers called "The Hills Are Alive...," which featured a cast of nearly fifty singers, dancers, and instrumentalists celebrating Rodgers' collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. - For the last twenty years or so of his life, Arthur "Conky" Conkwright worked as a freelance photographer. He died of a heart attack just moments after completing a series of photographs taken of actress Jayne Mansfield at a Hollywood charity ball in Palm Springs, California. Before turning to photography Conkwright, had for a number of years, worked in sales and advertising in New York City.
He was survived by his wife Marie and daughter June. His son Robert, who was born around 1925, was not mentioned in his obituary. - Music Department
Welcome to the Official IMDb page for A.N.O.N.?.M.U.S. (aka A.N.O.N.I.M.U.S). A.N.O.N.?.M.U.S. is an American underground rapper from Philadelphia,PA. His sometimes gritty but raw style is as some would say conscience and influential. Please check out "Cold World: The Album" on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and everywhere music is played. New Album "Behind The Mic" Set To Release Late 2018
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Actress, writer, and producer on both the big and small screen, Abigail Spencer is quickly making a name for herself in Hollywood.
Spencer was seen in Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), a prequel take on The Wizard of Oz (1939), alongside James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams.
She has starred in the Sundance Channel's first scripted series, Rectify (2013). The series follows "Daniel Holden" (played by Aden Young), who must put his life back together, after serving 19 years on Georgia's Death Row before DNA evidence calls his conviction into question.
Spencer also was on the indie, Kilimanjaro (2013), opposite Brian Geraghty, and reprising her role of "Annie" for the online series, "Burning Love" on YouTube, which got picked up for a second and third season. The series, produced by Red Hour, is a funny parody of a "Bachelor"-esque show. She also reprised her role on the USA hit show, Suits (2011), and was seen in the season of Childrens Hospital (2008) for Adult Swim.
Abigail was the lead in Daniela Amavia's cinematic piece A Beautiful Now (2015), produced by Keith Kjarval/Unified Pictures.
As a screenwriter and producer, Spencer is in development on Wrong Number, with James Franco producing through his "Rabbit Bandini Productions" banner. Spencer will also star in the indie romantic comedy directed by AnnaRose King. Spencer also co-wrote, with Lauren McBrayer Miller, the television series "Teach", which was purchased by ABC Family and deals with the lives of high-school teachers.
Spencer starred, alongside Gerard Butler in Curtis Hanson's, Chasing Mavericks (2012). The film follows surfer "Jay Moriarity", who sets out to ride the Northern California break, known as "Mavericks". She was also seen opposite Jon Hamm on AMC's award-winning and critically-acclaimed original series Mad Men (2007), in the series' third season, as Don Draper's latest love interest, who also happens to be his daughter's school teacher. Other film credits include McG's This Means War (2012) and Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens (2011).- Actor
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Abraham Maurice Boyd grew up in Northern California. He was born to a Scottish/Dutch father (William) and a Dutch Indonesian/Chinese mother (Josephine). He has two older brothers (Richard and Erland) whom are both talented musicians. Abraham's first stage performance was a small speaking role in Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'. His interest performing on stage grew further and eventually led him into taking acting classes through high school and college. He studied method acting at the renowned Jean Shelton Actors Lab studio in San Francisco.
After relocating to Hong Kong with his corporate job, he auditioned for the play "Wit" by Pulitzer's winning play-writer Margaret Edson. He accepted the role of five characters and performed in Beijing, Vietnam and Hong Kong. He continued to play 'James Linqk' in 'Glengarry Glen Ross', by David Mamet. Other roles on stage included 'the narrator' in 'Nina in the morning', by Christopher Durant and Arthur Millers 'The Crucible', as 'Judge Hawthorne'. Abraham went on to working in films opposite 'Milla Jovovich' in 'Ultra Violet', and with 'Michael Bien' and 'Maggie Q', in the action police thriller 'Dragon Squad', directed by David Lee. He continued to work in TV commercials and voice dubbing work for 'Infernal Affairs'.- Hollywood John Director. Producer, Business Owner www.psfmf.com and www.hjtaca.com
Dr. A. John Igein (Educational Psychology, PhD, ABD) aka Hollywood John is Director, Producer and Business Owner. He envisioned bringing two of the most powerful industries in the entertainment world, film and music, under the same umbrella.
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Hollywood John is the screenwriter of several yet-to-be-optioned works, including:
. Fallout of Justice: 2000 . The Tusk . ADD . American Boi Boi-Authors: Hollywood John, Co-Written with Ibrahim Thompson & Grace Patterson . Fox Trap . Jungle Boy: The Attack of the Dithonasaurs-2005, 141 pages . The Battle Is Not Yours-Stage Play . Identity Terror-2005: TXu 1-253-753; 124 pp . Unlawful Entry-2005: Txu 1-253-753; 124 pp . The Dreads-2005: Txu 1-253-753; 127 pp . A Time of Fury-2005: Txu 1-253-753: 121 pp . The Underworld-2005: Txu 1-253-753: 125 pp
Code 419: House Arrest
Dr. A. John Igein is the author of the self-published book, Code 419: House Arrest. His creative energy is unrivaled, arguably in his genre, to be the best African writer of our time. - Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (Achmed Abdullah) was the author of numerous adventure and mystery stories, usually set in strange and exotic locations.
His father, Grand Duke Nicholas Romanoff, was a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his mother, Princess Nourmahal Durani, was the daughter of the Amir of Afghanistan. Alexander, along with his brother Yar and sister Gothia, were born at the Romanoff Palace in Yalta, the future site of the historic Second World War conference among Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. After pressure from the Afghan and Russian royal houses forced their parents to divorce, Alexander--along with his sister--went to live with their uncle in Afghanistan; Yar, the oldest, stayed with his father in Russia. Alexander was adopted by his uncle, who changed his name to Achmed Abdullah Nadir Khan el-Durani el Iddrissyeh and raised him in the Muslim faith. Yar became an officer in the Russian army and was killed in 1914 at the Battle of Tannenberg. Gothia was said to have married an Indian rajah. In 1936, after years of being torn between the Russian Orthodox Church he was baptized in and the Muslim faith he was raised in, Abdullah became a Roman Catholic.
He went to schools in Afghanistan, India, France and finally England, where he attended Eton and Oxford. Upon graduation he became a British citizen and joined the British army, where he served with merit in China, Tibet, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, India and Africa. Because of his ability to blend in with different cultures, he was often called upon by British Intelligence to work as a spy. Not long after Abdullah retired from the British army with the rank of captain, he joined the Turkish army and fought with distinction in the First Balkan War (1912-1913). By the time Abdullah decided to pursue a writing career his life experiences had gained him a plethora of material to draw upon for decades to come.
Abdullah began writing in earnest after coming to the US sometime after 1914. Soon stories like "The Blue Eyed Manchu", "The Red Stain", "The Soul Catcher" and "Bucking the Tiger" were appearing in newspapers and magazines across the country. By the early 1920s he was writing for both the stage and the screen. In 1928 he published a collection of ballads and poems from Central Asia entitled "Lute and Scimitar". His autobiography, "The Cat Had Nine Lives" (1933), reads like one of his romantic adventure stories. In 1937 he wrote with John Kenney, a cookbook entitled, "For Men Only". Abdullah's first Broadway play, "The Honourable Mr. Wong" (1932), was adapted from his story "The Hatchetman" and was written with the help of David Belasco around the time he became a permanent resident of the US. Though many of his stories and plays were very popular with the public, he will probably always be best remembered for the classic films The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935).
Abdullah must have cut quite an imposing figure when seen out in public, with his military posture, impeccable suit, hat tilted just so, gray spats and monocled eye. In 1945 he passed away on his birthday at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York after an illness of several months. He was survived by his third wife, Rosemary Dutton, whom he married in 1940, a year after his second wife of 20 years, literary agent Jean Wick, had passed away. His first wife, Irene Augusta Bainbridge, was still married to him when he filled out his Word War One draft registration card in 1918. - Adam Granger was born in 1949 in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Bruce and Rosemary Granger and the brother of the late playwright Percy Granger (1945-1997). Adam has been a regular performer on the Prairie Home Companion radio program for over 30 years and was a founding member of its house band the Powdermilk Biscuit Band. Granger is the author of the book and CD set Granger's Fiddle Tunes for Guitar, the world's largest collection of guitar tablature fiddle tunes, and also a columnist for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine.
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Adam Sanderson was born in 1980 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He started directing when he was nine, using a home video camera bought by his father. Through the success of a music video he made for a Hip Hop group he was rapping in, he began directing numerous videos for Israelis bands. These works led him to direct award winning TV trailers and commercials. He co-founded "The Baboon Project", a group of young directors who worked together to create short films without governmental backing, in order to maintain their creative freedom. He co-directed the comedy "This is Sodom" (2010), a full length feature film parodying the last days of Sodom, the film became Israel's greatest box office success in the last thirty years. "Funeral at Noon" (2013) is his official debut feature film.- Adam Tran, also known as Tran Truong Giang, is an investor, e-commerce and SaaS entrepreneur. He is the Founder & CEO of TG Group Inter CO.,LTD. He already sold tens of thousands of his powerful marketing application to customers around the world. He and his company are also top sellers in popular e-commerce Marketplace such as Amazon, Etsy, Ebay.
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Addison O'Dea is a filmmaker and explorer specializing in anthropology, with a focus around culture within conflict and war. Both a writer and a documentarian, Addison's work focuses on access and understanding of cloistered worlds and communities.
Born and raised in New York City, Addison spent considerable time spent in The Bahamas where his family has long ties. His interests are informed by his mothers family who have worked in various aspects of science, government, and the arts all over the world since the 19th century.
Addison's documentary work has been broadcast by publishers such as Discovery, Inc., National Geographic, Seeker, YouTube, and OZY. Over the course of his career, he has worked on six of the seven continents and in countries as varied as Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Bolivia, East Timor, Benin, South Africa, Algeria, Myanmar, Oman, Western Sahara, Vietnam, Togo, Brazil, and Mexico.- Actor
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With over 30 films and 200 hours of television experience, versatility, discipline and a solid work ethic have been the underpinnings of Adrian's very successful 30-year acting career. Internationally recognized for his role as Duncan Macleod, in Highlander-The Series", Adrian has also produced and directed both film and television projects.
Born and raised in London, England, Adrian arrived in the United States in 1984, working as a choreographer and a model. After a year of taking acting classes with acting coaches, Ivana Chubbuck and Roy London, his first series role came on the ABC television show, The Colbys. This led to a role in the Broadway play, "Bouncers", in 1987, a guest role on the television show, Beauty and the Beast (1987) and his first film role in the film Last Rites (1988), with Tom Berenger.
After a starring role in "Masque of the Red Death"(1989), he became a series regular in the second season of the television series "War of the Worlds"(1988), followed by four episode arc on the MGM, "Dark Shadows" series. Fast becoming known for his solid work ethic, CBS cast him as the lead in the television pilot, "The Owl" (1990). Although the series wasn't picked up, Adrian didn't stop working, guest starring on Angela Lansbury's "Murder She Wrote", and co starring opposite the up-and-coming Sandra Bullock in, "Love Potion Number 9". But it would be his next role that would bring him international recognition...that of "Duncan MacLeod" in the syndicated series, Highlander (1991-1997). During the 6 year run, Adrian directed four of the series' episodes, including the epic 100th episode, shot in Bordeaux France. Three of these episodes were voted in the top ten best of series for the 119 episode run.
Although he was in demand when the series ended in 1997, Paul wanted to go back to his acting roots. After studying with renowned acting coach Larry Moss, he worked on John Landis' romantic comedy, "Susan's Plan", the action thriller, "Dead Men Can't Dance", and helped found Actors in Process, a theater group, where actors could meet weekly to showcase current work and receive positive critique from their peers. After two years, a production of an original play, "Things Just Change", was showcased at the Odyssey theater in Los Angeles, with Paul in the lead role.
The success of the Highlander series however, was still current, leading Paul to be offered to star opposite Christopher Lambert in "Highlander : Endgame"(2000), to take over the franchise's lead position. Other films followed, including the now cult classic "The Breed" (2001), shot in Budapest, Hungary where Adrian met his future wife, Alexandra.
In 2001, Lionsgate signed Adrian to a 3 picture deal, as well as to star in and executive produce the Sci Fi action thriller, "Tracker" (created by Gil Grant) for Lionsgate Television. With the advent of so many new media outlets however, the syndicated series was not renewed for a second season. Adrian continued to work on films such as "Nemesis Game" (Lionsgate) and "Tides of War", along with the Spelling Television and Paramount Pictures' hit TV series, "Charmed". This was the first time in thirteen years that Adrian had actually filmed again on US soil.
In 2006 the Highlander Franchise was back again, this time filming in Lithuania, with Adrian starring in and Executive Producing, what would become his last sortie as Duncan Macleod, in "Highlander :The Source". After that came, "The Legend of Roanoke"(2007) and the Sci Fi Action Comedy "The Immortal Voyages of Captain Drake"(2009), a film in which Paul choreographed all the fight scenes.
Always looking for interesting roles, Adrian found himself in Hungary and Tunisia, filming the Seven Arts production, "Nine Miles Down"(2009), that he now considers one of his most emotionally challenging roles. Next, he was off to London, in an out of character role, as a Conservative member of Parliament in the thriller, "The Heavy "(2010), with Gary Stretch, Stephen Rea and Christopher Lee. Also in 2010, Adrian co-founded his first production company Filmblips Inc.
Since 2010, while working as an actor on several other films and TV movies, Adrian also wrote three screenplays, developed financial and artistic presentation packages for film and television, along with spearheading his charity, The Peace Fund, that he founded in 1997. Peace stands for Protect. Educate. Aid. Children. Everywhere. Over the past 17 years, Adrian has overseen the work of the fund in countries such as Romania, Bellarus, Niger, Hungary, Haiti, Cambodia, Thailand and the United States. In 2012, Adrian launched Peace Fund Radio that he co hosts with Ethan Dettanmaeir, with an estimated audience of between 1.8 and 2 million listeners a month. The innovative radio show, has been host to many celebrities with causes of their own and is the catalyst behind the Peace Fund's partnership and donation to bring computers into LAUSD schools. Through the radio shows influence the fund has also partnered with Kimberly Moore's," Adopt a Letter" program to fulfill children's wishes at Christmas, brought books for libraries and lights for homes in El Salvador, along with connecting like minded charities to fulfill their initiatives.
In 2015, Adrian helped launch his second production company, Radical Road, aimed at lower budget films, some of which Adrian is set to direct and act in. In 2016 Adrian has two movies, "The Secret of Emily Blair" and "Stormageddon", releasing and he is getting ready to direct his first feature, "Chemical Influence", a screenplay he wrote from an original script. Adrian also launched, "The Sword Experience" in 2016. Half day seminars of sword training, that include stage and real life combat and safety tips aimed at individuals, corporations, film, stage, re-enactment societies, martial artists and role playing groups.
He is still married to Alexandra and they have two children together, Angelisa and Royce.- Morgan also served in the Army in WWII. By the end of the war he had earned the following medals: Legion of Merit; Bronze Star; WWI Victory medal; Polish Golden Cross of Merit, with crossed swords; Croix de Guerre, with star; and Order of Ouissam Alaouite, from French Morocco. He also wore the pilot's wings that he had earned in WWI.
- Himanshu Purohit a.k.a "Airavt" was born on 1 July 1992 in Bikaner (Rajasthan), India.
He is an Indian Entrepreneur, record producer, Author, Musician and Engineer. On Republic Day (India) ,he released the Teaser of his first single "It's Time to Dream"on Soundcloud. After this he has released Various Outstanding hits in EDM genre.
Although being a Mechanical Engineer , he always has passion for producing Music & writing Songs to inspire & motivate people and When he came across electronic music, he became fascinated with the genre decided to make Music by himself. - Visual Effects
Visual Effects artist with over 15 years in the Industry. Worked as senior Assets artist with MPC, DNEG, MrX , RocketScience VFX . Contributed to numerous award winning Advertisements, Films, Television series , Game cinematics. Skilled in Modeling, Texture Creation and Asset development .Started in the feature animation industry by assisting the modeling department for Disneys' mickey mouse clubhouse and gradually progressed into VFX with MPC. Worked in MPC advertisements and Films and continued the journey in VFX developing assets(Models and textures) for Television series and films with RocketScience VFX(Halo series 2022), MrX(Halo series 2022, NetFlix's Nightbooks, Resident Evil TV series and DNEG (Sonic the Hedgehog 2-2022, The Flash -2023, Apple TV extrapolations- 2023, The Haunted mansion -2023, Dune -2- 2024 , Godzilla x Kong -New Empire -2024 Resides in Toronto,Canada- When Al was ten, he would finish dinner with mom, dad and his late sister Becky, take a notepad out to the family's ocean-liner of a car (a 1970's Plymouth Gran Fury) and write. Most of those early stories were Star Wars rip offs, but Escape to the Stars was quite original he thought, Star Wars meets The Great Escape.
Since then, he has been writing in one form or another, from radio and online news and commercials to six screenplays and three Novellas including one self-published work of science fiction titled Quarantined Planet, under his full name John Allen Pace. Writing is Al's passion.
Al Pace has been seeking a literary agent and representation for full or part-time screen writing work. - Actor
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Al was born and raised in NY. He jumped in the entertainment biz at the age of fifteen. Having booked the very first casting he went on, (a Gushers Fruit Snack's commercial), he dove in head first.
Later that year FORD models signed him. His first job with FORD brought him to become the face of Versace/Versus clothing company. His brother, actor Chris Santos, joined him in this campaign which took the two brothers on a four year world tour.
During this tour, Al booked over 50 commercials, several magazines covers such as "Seventeen, YM, Teen Vogue, American Fitness, Elle", and many international campaigns like "Versace, Armani, D&G, Levi's, Lee, American Eagle, Wrangler". In 2001, Al was named the "Cosmopolitan Man of the Year". In day's to come Howard Stern and Regis Philbin poked fun at his title on their shows.
When Al returned, he decided to go back to school for his passion in the sciences. For years he studied at several college's in NYC, before taking the leap into acting again. While in school, he trained with acting coach Penny Templeton. His first casting after completing her class was for Darren Star's critically acclaimed show, Grosse Pointe. Al booked the sough after lead role as "Johnny Bishop" in the WB show which ran for two seasons.
Making the move to Hollywood and leaving his science studies behind, Al booked a lead in MGM/United Pictures and Victor Salva/Francis Ford Coppola's Jeepers Creepers II. The horror franchise took #1 for several weeks and still holds the box office records for those weeks.
He then dove into producing and writing for film. Having found some success there as well, this solidified Al's move into Hollywood. His company StrongHold, has several project's in various stages of production.
Al studied with many acting coaches like Nikolai Gusov, Penny Templeton, Ivana Chubbuck, NYU Film, and Hunter Cuny College Film.
He has two brothers and two sisters. Both brothers have modeled and acted as well. Chris Santos was in Amongst Friends (1993) and more recently Steven Soderburgh's', The Girlfriend Experience (2009). Brother Patrick Santos had a line in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).
Al has two dogs, a Rottweiler and a black Labrador Retriever.- Producer
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Al Shaymaa Mashaal spent the first years of her work life as a Corporate Communications Manager in a bank based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She then left the bank just to open her own business in a very risky career shift. Her early life was entirely full of triumphs. She already showed amazing creativity as a corporate communications manager boosting the bank's marketing and creating prestigious events. Moreover, she invested in establishing her own production company in 2019 under the name of Nastro Media Production. She then Executive-produced Several TV Commercials for well known corporations in the region. She Co-produced the first of it's kind shark based film in the Middle East Mako (2021), A film Inspired by a true story. The events revolve around the ferry Salem Express, as eight people decide to dive in the depths of the Red Sea, bringing back lots of memories. In the wake of 2021, she established another company based in the UAE under the name of Trend Media Production & VFX.- Al VanPliet was born in Teaneck New Jersey. He is an actor wrestling manager known as K9 Kohl and Radio Personality. He is best known as Benji in Thong Girl 3: Revenge of the Dark Widow (2007)and his roles as wrestling manager K9 Kohl on television and off. He has a radio show called The Rocknbilly Hot Rod N Blues Review in Nashville Tn on 107.1 fm and worldwide on radiofreenashville.org
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Alaa Mosbah is an Egyptian filmmaker and author. He has produced the Electric Press Kit for "Paranormal", Netflix first original Egyptian TV series. He was a Fulbright grantee at Columbia College Chicago in 2017. He graduated from the American University in Cairo in 2010, with a major in Communications and Media Arts and minor in Film. He got the International Critics Jury Prize (FIPRESCI), from Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2012 for the short film "Café Regular, Cairo", produced by him and directed by Ritesh Batra. He was the line producer/ second unit director of "What Comes Around" documentary premiered at Berlinale Panorama 2018. He was nominated for Robert Bosch award at Berlin International Film Festival in 2014 for his documentary "Extra Time" and in 2015 for his short fiction film "Once Every Week". His first feature narrative script "Cairo, earlier" has participated in Rawi scriptwriters' lab 2013. He has directed and produced many TV documentaries for Al Jazeera English including "Ultras", "Medicine for Sale" and "Standards of Beauty". His short film "Tariq" was selected for the Arab Short Film Competition at Doha Tribeca Film Festival 2012. In 2011, He worked with Scandar Copti, an Oscar nominated filmmaker, and Ritesh Batra, a BAFTA nominated filmmaker, in the Education Department of Doha Film Institute to produce a 50-one-minute shorts in nine different Arab capitals.- Actor
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Alan Fletcher began his career on the stage at Perth's Hole in the Wall Theatre, before moving to the Perth Theatre Company at the National Theatre, Western Australia, where he worked opposite such great talents as Warren Mitchell, Honor Blackman, Tom Stoppard, Bill Kerr and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
After three years of solid work, he headed to Sydney, where he played his first television role in The Young Doctors (1976), before landing the role that would fully launch him into Australia's lounge rooms - that of "Constable Frank Rossi" on Cop Shop (1977). Various roles in film and television followed, including playing "Martin Blake" on The Love Boat (1977) opposite Morgan Fairchild, "Henry Landers" in _Gross Misconduct (1993/I)_ opposite Jimmy Smits and "Frank Harkin" in Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993) opposite Scott Bakula.
Alan returned to the theater in 1998 with the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC), with whom he worked with in various lead roles for the next three years. His return to Australian television was honored when he was nominated for an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Actor in a Series for his role as Australian Consul, "Michael Clayton" in the Australian series Embassy (1990).
In 1994, Alan took the role of "Dr Karl Kennedy" on Neighbours (1985), a role he plays to the present day. During this time he has also taken to the stage again in "Mame," as well as hosting various television documentaries and lifestyle programs.- Composer
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Alan Zahn is an award winning composer, arranger, producer and engineer. Alan started his career in the advertising world by composing and producing hundreds of commercials for companies such as, Coca-Cola, McDonalds and American Express. Alan is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art for his work on a Google commercial. He took his jingle writing skills and applied them to films, both feature and documentaries. One of the films he worked on, "Time Freak" was nominated for an Academy Award. Alan continued his musical journey by producing and arranging music for singer songwriters. One of his recent record projects, "Canto Per Mangiare" is sung in Italian and features musicians from around the world, utilizing different orchestral configurations. Alan's abilities as a multi-instrumentalist, his fluency with orchestral arranging combined with his talents in writing and arranging pop, jazz and classical music as well as utilizing contemporary sound design techniques gives Alan a unique flair when scoring film, TV and other media.- Albert Richard Wetjen was a London born American novelist, short story writer and journalist, probably best remembered for his sea stories that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other publications. He was born on 20 August, 1900 and ran away to sea while in his early teens where he would survive two shipwrecks and a brief incarceration with his shipmates by the Sultan of Zanzibar. During The First World War, Wetjen would see action as a merchant marine and later serving with the British Army's Manchester Regiment, earning the Mercantile Marine Medal, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. A few years after the war, Wetjen began working his way across Canada doing odd jobs, eventually finding himself south of the border working as a reporter on the Harrisburg Bulletin in Harrisburg, Oregon.
In 1926 Wetjen was awarded the O' Henry prize for his short story "Command" that was published in Sea Stories Magazine. Wetjen would later say he was inspired to write after reading Jack London's "Martin Eden". At the time he remembered thinking, "Well if one lug can make it, why not another?".
A prolific writer, Wetjen's stories appeared in numerous magazines and pulp fiction publications for over twenty years. His writings enabled him to return to the sea and travel the world. Wetjen spent a considerable amount of time exploring the Australian Outback and later chronicling what he had seen and the people he met. He was particularly impressed with the Australian Mounted Police and would later write about their exploits. Wetjen also enjoyed on occasion working odd jobs on Hollywood movie sets.
Albert Richard Wetjen was a large man often seen puffing on a cigar. He passed away unexpectedly on 8 March, 1948, in San Francisco, his home since the early 1930s. He was survived by his mother Lillian and two sisters, all living in London. Wetjen was married for 19 years to Edith Cecelia Eisenbrandt of Duluth, Minnesota, before they divorced in 1942.
Source: Petition of Citizenship 4 November, 1931, Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) 6 April, 1944, New York Times 10 March, 1948 - Music Department
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Aleksey Igudesman is known as a violinist, but has also established himself as a composer, conductor, actor, director and producer. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and at the age of 12 he was accepted to the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in England. He then studied violin with Boris Kuschnir at the Vienna Conservatory.
Aleksey's music, published by Universal Edition and his compositions have been performed worldwide by soloists, ensembles and orchestras, often with him as a solo violinist and conductor.
He performs his violin duets in the project Violins of the World, in which his poems are recited by Sir Roger Moore.
Igudesman writes, arranges and records film music, often collaborating with the Academy Award winning film composer, Hans Zimmer. Igudesman has composed, arranged and played on The Road to El Dorado, Spanglish and Sherlock Holmes, which was nominated for Best Original Score at the Academy Awards in 2010. Igudesman co-wrote the music for Jealous of the Birds with Zimmer. It premiered in 2011 at the Rhode Island Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize for the Best Original Score. Igudesman was part of the writing team on Rango, Inception and has also written and performed on Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows, Madagascar 3, The Lone Ranger, 300: Rise of an Empire, Inferno and Boss Baby 2.
Igudesman has written the music for numerous documentaries, such as Noseland, Wachau, Schönbrunn, Salzburg and Maria Theresia, as well as Austria's heritage for the world 2022.
Together with the internationally acclaimed pianist Hyung-ki Joo, he appears as Igudesman & Joo. Their show A Little Nightmare Music has received much acclaim by critics and audiences alike and been watched on YouTube over 20 million times, to date. They often perform with Gidon Kremer, Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Viktoria Mullova, Emanuel Ax, John Malkovich among many others. In 2009 Igudesman & Joo toured Germany, Holland and Belgium as part of the Night of the Proms, appearing in front of half a million people. They also have a show with symphony and chamber orchestras, called BIG Nightmare Music.
Aleksey Igudesman plays a Santo Serafin 1717 violin, kindly loaned to him by Erste Bank.- Actress
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Alessia was born Alessia Zaccaro in Montreal Canada in 2008. She has always had a passion for music and the arts from a very young age. She's at her happiest when she's acting or singing. She loves to spend time with family and close friends when she isn't on set, on stage, or in the recording studio.
Alessia has appeared in "Ruptures", a French series; "A Mothers Love" directed by Monia Chockri; "Party of Five" remake; Lifetimes "A Christmas Ever After" and cast to play "Kelly Jensen" in the movie "Better Than Perfect" alongside "Nancy Valen" (Saved by the bell, Baywatch), and "Michael Campion", better known for his 6 year run as "Jackson Fuller" on "Fuller House".
Alessia has auditioned for "Americas Got Talent", "The Voice Junior", and has won a junior singing competition in Canada in 2017. Her faith in God is a very important part of her life and she truly does have a heart of gold. Alessia lives east of Montreal with her mother. Sadly her father passed away from cancer in 2015.- Alex "Feather" Akimov is a Russian-American guitarist and composer. As an active musician for nearly ten years, he appeared on eleven studio albums in addition to collaborating with a wide variety of artists. Alex Feather Akimov started playing guitar when he was 11 years old. In 2006, graduated from Gnessin State Musical College Moscow, Russia got a BA degree in Classical guitar, Jazz guitar, composition September 2006 moved to Los Angeles, California to study at Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music where he was learning from great teachers such as Frank Gambale, Steve Fister, Greg Howe and many others. After graduating Los Angeles Music Academy in 2008 Alex started working as a full time musician. In 2008 Alex was hired to work with nationally touring band Ziv. Alex appeared on two records "Fearless" and "Paper & Sound" CD "Fearless" become best Independent record of the year Melodic.net, performed more than a hundred shows around the US. After quitting Ziv in 2010, Alex started working with a famous Russian artist 3 times (Russian) Grammy Award winner Irene Nelson. Irene's music video for debut single "Sunrise" aired on "MTV Russia" and "Muz-Tv," "Sunrise" charted in the Billboard Dance Charts. Debut single "All About The Rain" was released in November 2010 Produced by Alex Feather Akimov/Brian Duffy/Brian Garcia New single "Search" Ft Greg Howe is a collaboration of Alex with a guitar virtuoso Greg Howe was released in March 2011.
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Alex Morsanutto is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. His career began in journalism working for ABC News. In 2015, he founded Silvermine Productions, to develop and produce commercials, films, and TV series.
In 2018, he was a Sundance Episodic finalist for his script, Beasts of Suburbia.
Morsanutto has directed commercials for clients such as Unilever, Chevrolet, Kiehl's, and CBS.
He is one of the founding members of the Norwalk Film Festival (CT).- Producer
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Born in Germany, Davidis graduated from the private boarding school 'Schloss Buldern'. After studying Economics for four semesters at the University of Essen, he continued studying Social and Commercial Communications at the prestigious University of Arts in Berlin. Concluding his studies with a masters degree, he moved to New York City, where he started out under Hollywood director Marcus Nispel working for Nispel's company Portfolio Artists Network (that later merged with Ridley and Tony Scott's RSA-USA) as the in-house conceptual art director.
Within less than one year he became creative director and then, a further year later, Davidis turned director himself. Davidis' own international film production company John Galt Films, Inc. was established in 1997. He has been producing his own programs since 2006.
Davidis is known for his story-telling skills, critical thinking and creative problem solving. His style of content creation is fast-paced, visually driven, emotionally charged and highly engaging. His style of producing is characterized by reliability, budgetary appreciation, commitment to excellence and a drive for innovation. He is comfortable working a broad spectrum of people in any country or culture and is a highly skilled team builder, able to command respect and willing cooperation even under challenging conditions.
As producer and executive producer, Davidis has recently completed the feature-length documentary "Uprising" on Egypt's revolution of 2011. "Uprising" is being extremely well received at international film festivals. At the current Orlando Film Festival (Oct 2012) it has already been nominated in two categories: Most Inspirational and Best Documentary. At the Silicon Valley Film Festival (Nov 2012) "Uprising" won Best Feature Documentary Film.
Written, produced and directed by Davidis: The 12 x 60min. TV series "GT Racer" has been sold worldwide, airing on prime time on prestigious networks such as Discovery's HD-Theater, UKTV and many others. The UK's viewer-based online rating system TVGuide has rated the show consistently at a whopping 8.8 (out of 10); way above most blockbuster mainstream TV series. Besides network airing, his programs are also sold globally on DVD and as iTunes applications.
As a conceptual media consultant, Davidis has worked for the foreign political department of ZDF, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Europe's biggest broadcaster, as well as for New York Times Television.
As a commercial director, Davidis has worked in over 20 countries with as many film production companies for clients that include Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann-Erickson, DM9, KNSK, BBDO, VBMS, Euro RSG, Doner, McKiney & Silver, TBWA, DMB&B, Talent, Heinrich Baur Publisher, Lowe & Partner, BMZ Park, Wirz Identity, GGK and N.W. Ayer among others, producing award winning spots.
As art director, Davidis was responsible for the art direction of such memorable #1 music videos as C&C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat" and "Things That Make You Go Hmmm..." (nomination for 'Best Art Direction' at the MTV Video Music Awards) and others, including Aretha Franklin, The B52s, Sheila E, Joe Jackson, L.L. Cool J., Lisa Stansfield, No Doubt and many more.
Davidis' photography, capturing historic racing automobiles, has been exhibited in galleries in the UK and in the US, winning a number of awards.
Alexander Davidis has consistently broken new ground in the field of audiovisual communications. His unique ability to unite cost-effective production techniques with innovative, artistic concepts have earned him the reputation as a dependable creative powerhouse. Davidis' appreciation for in-demand TV-content combined with his excellent attention to detail delivers productions that are on or under budget, that receive high ratings, international recognition and prime-time slots.
His infinite, passionate, creative drive motivates both client and production team. His broad experience enables him to oversee all aspects of TV and film production independently, handling anything from five to seven-figure budgets with equal focus and dedication.- Sound Department
Alex Fielding grew up in Manchester with a keen interest and love of the Arts. Alex Fielding was accepted into the Sound Technology program at LIPA - Sir Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts where Alex Fielding passed with honors. Alex Fielding has gone on to become one of the industry's leading Re-recorders and continues to be very active on a yearly basis. Alex Fielding has been nominated for 2 Emmy's for his work on Downtown Abbey.- Writer producer stage and screen actor William Alexander Kirkland was born in Mexico City, the son of Robert Gowland Kirkland and Charlotte Megan and the grandson of rear admiral William Alexander Kirkland and Consuela Gowland. As a boy, Kirkland attended the Taft School, a prep school in Watertown, CT. and later the University of Virginia. He began his acting career at the historic Hedgerow Theatre in Media, PA., and later became associated with Group Theatre, the brainchild of Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg. He would go on to appear on Broadway, summer stock and in films. As a writer Kirkland had contributed stories to a number of popular national magazines of the day.
Kirkland is probably best remembered today for his two year marriage to Rose Louise Hovick, known professionally as Gypsy Rose Lee. Their son Eric was born three month after they divorced and just a few hours before Kirkland married socialite Phyllis Ann Adams on December 12, 1944. It would later come out that Eric's real father was director Otto Preminger. In March of 1971, almost a year following Gypsy Rose Lee's death, Preminger officially adopted Eric. Kirkland's marriage to Adams ended in 1950, several years after the birth of their daughter Alexandra.
By the time of his marriage to Greta Hunter-Thompson Baldridge in 1959, Kirkland was the owner of an art gallery in Palm Beach, FL. In 1945 he purchased Villa del Sarmiento, an oceanfront Palm Beach estate, to in part showcase his antique and fine art collections. Kirkland and his wife Greta also maintained houses in Fairfield, CT. and Cuernavaca Mexico. Greta was a former Ziegfeld Follies girl from Toronto, who at the time of her marriage to Kirkland was the recent widow of a co-heir to an estate connected to the National Steel Corporation. She passed away after several years of ill health on June 17, 1972 in Mexico City. A few years later Kirkland would be linked in the press to British actress Margot Grahame. At the time of his daughter's death, Kirkland was living in Cuernavaca, where eleven years earlier his estate was used in the filming of some scenes for the Viet Nam War film, Who'll Stop the Rain (1978). - Make-Up Department
Alexandra Bayless (also known as Ali Bayless) grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. She graduated with her BFA in acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her father, John R. Bayless is an Emmy award winning makeup artist. Her mother, June Bayless runs a children's theatre in N.C. Her brother, Thomas Adam Bayless works in Production.- Art Director
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Alexandra Bégin is a filmmaker and student living and working in Montreal, Quebec. She is currently a Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate in Film Production at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. She has produced a documentary short for the National Film Board, which screened on the CBC.- Alex Stewart (born May 12, 1989) is a Canadian musician and multimedia editor living in Brooklyn, NY. Stewart moved to the States as a teenager where she spent several years making music in Miami. Her past and current projects include Aces (2015) and Alexandra Stewart (2010). She appears in the Kate Barker-Froyland film, Song One, as a muse.
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Alfred E. Gold was a top cameraman with United Press Movietone News for a number of years. He was one of three cameramen to capture on film the Hindenburg dirigible as it burst into flames while attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey.
Upon returning from his European vacation in July of 1956, former President Harry S. Truman stopped to shake Gold's hand as he was filming the event from atop his car. Truman had just learned, probably from another cameraman, that Gold was planning to retire.- Producer
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Ali is a writer and producer based in NYC. Ali's stage play Good for You was a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival in 2018. Ali produced Zero Issue, the world's first superhero mockumentary, with the award-winning New York Picture Company. She is also the executive producer of the short film Seven Fishes. Ali's concert series, ...The F*ck Am I Doing? is premiering in the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) this summer. Other Select Writing Credits Include: Standards (The Dramatists Guild, Skeletop Rep), For Goodness Sake (4th Street Theatre @ New York Theatre Workshop), The Interview (The Flea), Good for You (The Assembly Hall at Judson Memorial Church). Select Film Credits Include: Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (Production Assistant), Believin' (Production Manager/Producer), Zeitgeist (Producer). Select Associate/Assistant Director Credits Include: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Broadway), the 2012 Oscar Hammerstein Award, and Live from Lincoln Center: Sweeney Todd, and Rob Fischer Celebrates Kander & Ebb. Ali's a Dramaturg with NYMF, where she helped Peter, Who? win Best Book at the festival in 2018. She's a member of Stillwater Writers Group and a Member of the Dramatists Guild of America. She's a 2019 recipient of the Mary Louise Rockwell Scholarship from Primary Stages. Whether on stage, screen, spoken, or sung, Ali writes dark comedies that center around strong female characters that drive the action of the story.- Writer
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Novelist, poet, editor and journalist Allan Eugene Updegraff was born in Grinnell, Iowa on 14 February, 1883, the oldest of four boys born to William R. and Laura A. Updegraff. Laura passed away sometime between 1889 and 1900. Updegraff's parents were farmers and had operated farms near Grinnell and Washington, Iowa and later Springfield, Missouri. Two of his brothers, Lawrence Vale (1884-1961) and Herbert H. (1889-1961), went on to have successful newspaper careers, while his third brother, William David (1885-1960), became a California rancher.
Updegraff attended, but did not graduate from Yale University. Before his writing career bloomed, Updegraff worked as an editor of a South Chicago newspaper, investigator for a charitable organization, editor of the Yale Monthly and maintenance man for Upton Sinclair's utopian Helicon Home Colony in Englewood, New Jersey. It was at the latter that Updegraff caught the writing bug.
In 1907 The New York Times reported that Updegraff and a friend intended to travel on foot to San Francisco where they hoped to find work on a merchant ship bound for the Fiji Islands. The two hoped to achieve their search for a workless and poetic society on $20 apiece, panhandling and maybe a little larceny. It is not known by this writer how far the couple got.
A short list of Uupdegraff's works may include "A Gentleman from Jupiter" (1916), "Second Youth: Being, in the Main, Some Account of the Middle Comedy in the Life of a New York Bachelor: A Novel" (1917), " A Novel of Modernistic Truth and Intruding War" (1918), "Whatever We Do" (1927) and "Grantham's Moor,: And Collected Poems, Some old" (1960).
In 1908 Updegraff married Canadian author ("Weeds" 1923) Edith Summers (1884-1956)), whom he'd met while she was Upton Sinclair's secretary. Two children, Barbara and Ivor, were born to this union before they divorced sometime around 1913. Updegraff later wed fashion consultant and freelance writer Dora (Doris) Loues Miller. Starting in 1923, and only interrupted by the war years, Updegraff and his wife would spend the majority out of every year in Paris, France, the fashion capital of the world.
Allan Eugene Updegraff died in Paris on 7 December, 1965. He was survived by his wife Dora who passed away in Paris three years later. His son Ivor H. Updegraff (1913-2006) went on to be a chemistry professor and scientist.
The source material for this bio primarily came from: Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1960, 1963-1974, US Census records and several newspaper articles, including Dora Loues Miller's obituary in the 17 February, 1968 edition of the New York Times.- Stage and screen actor based in Edinburgh Scotland. I have a featured role in the BBC series nightsleeper as the character Loz out at some point this year 2024. I also performed on stage in Scots play Whisky Galore as George Campbell at the Edinburgh fringe festival in 2023 with two 4 star reviews and sold out shows. love getting deep into dramatic character journeys it's my passion.
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Allan Flores Sancon is a Showbiz Personality. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
Allan's started his career in Showbiz Industry in the year 2000 as a Photographer in the popular Showbiz Magazine, at the Star Studio Magazine, The Buzz Magazine, MOD Magazine, Moviestar Magazine, and also in Philippine Entertainment Portal (PEP).
Last December 2022 he was part of Metro Manila Film Festival 2022 Movie MAMASAPANO Now It Can Be Told as an actor, playing the role of soldier.
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Alan Stuart Jones is a composer, known for his work on Peat Reek (2014), Open Mike (2015), Bells (2016), Cocktail (2016), and Keep Right (2016). He is, at present, working on an EP in collaboration with various artists. Alan has been focusing much of his time on genres including experimental independent pop/rock, future bass and electro house. New works include; 'Explosions', 'Her Name', 'Plan B' and 'Don't Wake Me Up'.
Previous song titles composed by Alan Stuart Jones consist of; 'OCD', 'East of the Sun', 'Open Your Mind', 'Weak Innocence', 'Like a Man' and 'Empty Ghost'.
As well as writing and producing music, Alan works as a Sound Recordist and Underwater Videographer on film sets. Before working in film, he was a session guitarist for various solo artists and spent a lot of his early days in music on the road, performing onstage.- Amalia Hernández Navarro was born in Mexico City and christened, according to custom, with her mother's name, Amalia Navarro. Lamberto Hernández, her father, was a politician and had served in the military as an officer. Amalia was trained in modern dance from her earliest years but became passionate about the regional dances of Mexico's indigenous peoples. In 1952, at the age of thirty-four and already a respected choreographer, Amalia assembled eight dancers to found the Ballet Moderno de Mexico, taking it throughout Mexico and accepting bookings for nearly every kind of occasion from local festivals to weddings and quinceañeras. In 1959, Amalia's Baile Folklorico was granted a government commission to represent Mexico at the Pan American Games in Chicago. By this year, the company had grown to include fifty dancers and had been renamed Ballet Folklorico de Mexico; by the following year, the company was on stage twice a week in Mexico City at the Palace of Fine Arts and seen frequently on television. In 1968, Amalia opened a ballet school in Mexico City whose quarters were rendered by her architect sibling, Agustín Hernández. Amalia died on November 5, 2000, almost a half century after founding her initial troupe and having taken her dancers to over sixty countries and performing before a collective audience of more than 25 million.
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Ami Artzi has had over 35 years experience in the entertainment industry, serving primarily as producer and executive producer on major motion pictures. Hailing from the Middle East, Artzi, graduated from New York University Film School, and produced his first feature "The Dreamer" which was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972, before he began a long association with The Cannon Group Inc. which was run by Dennis Friedland and Christopher Dewey, working in various capacities as producer and production executive on features such as "Silent Night, Bloody Night" and "Sugar Cookies".
In 1979, when Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus bought The Cannon Group Inc. from Friedland and Dewey, Artzi remained employed continuing in diverse years at the now major independent film production/distribution company into the 1980s, working as both Producer and Production Supervisor overseeing films such as "Death Wish III and IV", "Runaway Train" and "The Delta Force".
In 1989, when Golan decided to leave as head of The Cannon Group Inc., he formed 21st Century Film Corporation, with Artzi joining him as President of the newly formed theatrical production and distribution company from 1990 to 1993 working on films such as "The Forbidden Dance", "Phantom of the Opera" and "Night of the Living Dead".
Since his resignation as President of 21st Century Films, Artzi has produced over 20 theatrically released films, became CEO of Tricoast International and Amco Entertainment.- Amory John Francis Macaire is a British/American stunt performer. He grew up loving action sports in the UK, US, France and Italy before moving to Norway to pursue an education in action acting and stunt performing. Amory is a very versatile performer with a broad selection of skills including; stage combat, stunt falls and rigging. Currently based in Milan, Amory is often travelling between the US, UK, Norway, France and Italy.
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Amy Frederica Brenneman was born in New London, Connecticut, to Frederica (Shoenfield), a judge in the Connecticut State Superior Court, and Russell Langdon Brenneman, Jr., an environmental lawyer. Amy's mother was one of the first women to graduate from Harvard. Amy is also a graduate of Harvard, where she majored in comparative religion. She spent one semester studying sacred dances in Nepal. While in college, she formed the Cornerstone Theater Company, a touring production company that takes classics to small towns and encourages locals to participate in them. After touring for five years, she moved to New York, where she became a teacher in Brooklyn. She landed her first TV role in 1992.- Actress
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Amy Coomer is an actress born in Queensland, Australia. She has studied acting extensively and is known for Last Seen (2023), Nova (2021) and Chasing Gold (2020), as well as other productions. She is also a screenwriter and author of young adult fiction, with several of her stories published online and in print.- Director
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Amy Figueroa Mori is a filmmaker with over 5 years of professional experience in editing, screenwriting, and directing.
Born in Massachusetts, she was the first in her Puerto Rican family to grow up stateside. Her rich upbringing of Puerto Rican culture combined with the experiences of living in diverse places such as Hawai'i bring a unique perspective and influence to her work.
Interested in filmmaking from a young age, Amy had the opportunity to begin developing her skills while attending Hanalani Schools in Mililani, Hawai'i. This interest bloomed into a career when she decided to attend the Zaki Gordon School for Cinematic Arts at Liberty University, where she graduated with honors in May 2019. She made her official directorial debut that same year with her short film "Keepsake."
Her areas of interests include narrative filmmaking, abstract works, and faith-based/inspirational storytelling. The decision to see design almost as its own singular character - meaning that the way the actors interact with their space is just as important as how they interact with each other - is the focal point of her debut short film, Keepsake.
Amy has directed her own projects, as well as served in production for multiple films. Other credits include script supervision, production design, social media management, casting, and more. Stretching her abilities has helped her to better understand film production as a whole.- Amy Nitao is a business consultant, financial advisor, and licensed commercial real estate agent. As the owner and operator of her own consulting company, Kaname, LLC, formed in 2015, she has assisted numerous clients in Orange County, California, establish small businesses, including cafes, restaurants, beauty salons, and professional services offices. In 2017 she became an executive producer for Song Lang (2018), a feature film shot in Vietnam, which has been screened at several prestigious international film festivals and has won 54 awards to date. She also invested to publish 2 books, Song Lang - Behind the curtain in 2019 and 2020.
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Anastasia Sokolova first gained fame as a contestant on Ukraine's Got Talent in 2013, and is called the worlds best pole dancer. Anastasia has 4 siblings; Maxim Melanchuk, Andrey Litvinov, Kirill Sokolov, and Darya Magerya. She studied for her Bachelor's in Economics and Management at the KUTEP (Kiyevskiy university tourism, economics i prava) University in Kyiv city, Ukraine. She is currently (Feb 19, 2015) the president and founder of the Kiev school of dance and acrobatics on pylon from the Sokolova Dance Studio.- Anatoli was born in Kharkov, Ukraine; he also went to music college there where he learned his composing skills.
The director, Igor Miniyev, was also from Kharkov, although both Anatoli and Igor were not friends there. They later were in Paris where they recognized each other from their Kharkov days. It was there that the idea for The Flood was born. - Camera and Electrical Department
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Known for his specialist derelict film locations and award-winning lighting techniques Andre has spent over 15 years working within the TV, Film and commercial industry advising companies such as BBC, Ch 4, Netflix, HBO, and many others. Andre is also an acclaimed author boasting world wide selling books such as the Abandoned Planet series of publications along with print and set design for US media giant HBO .- Actor
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Born in Taranto (Italy) and raised between Paris and London, Andrea Dolente is a perfectly trilingual actor. He has received an international and diverse professional training (London Guildhall Drama School, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre), has studied with Larry Moss, Susan Batson and Tom Radcliffe, and is well-versed in fencing and stage-fight. Andrea is also a talented dancer and musician, and an experienced horse rider.