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Jamie Stuart
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1) JAMIE STUART IS AN INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER.
2) HIS FIRST FEATURE FILM "A MOTION SELFIE" WAS RELEASED IN 2018.
3) SINCE 2002, HE HAS WORKED PRIMARILY ONLINE AS A PIONEER OF THE DIGITAL D.I.Y. MOVEMENT.
4) HIS 2010 SHORT FILM, "IDIOT WITH A TRIPOD," BECAME AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WITH OVER A MILLION VIEWS AFTER ROGER EBERT WROTE THAT IT SHOULD WIN AN ACADEMY AWARD. IT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY NAMED THE #3 CREATIVE VIDEO OF 2011 BY TIME MAGAZINE.
5) HIS WORK OFTEN BLENDS REALITY WITH FICTION AND HAS FEATURED APPEARANCES BY MARTIN SCORSESE, JAY Z, TILDA SWINTON, CLINT EASTWOOD, MERYL STREEP, ROBERT DE NIRO, HEIDI KLUM, AND MANY MORE NOTABLES.
6) CLIENTS HAVE INCLUDED: FOCUS FEATURES, CADILLAC, CNN, THE NYC MAYOR'S OFFICE, FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER AND FILMMAKER MAGAZINE, AMONG OTHERS.
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Tim Roth
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Timothy Simon Roth (born May 14, 1961) is an English actor and director. He was among the prominent British actors known as the "Brit Pack". For his performance in Rob Roy (1995), Roth won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award.
After garnering attention in television productions Made in Britain (1982) and Meantime (1983), Roth was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer in his theatrical film debut The Hit (1984). He gained further recognition for his roles in films, including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (both 1990). Roth has collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, including Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995) and The Hateful Eight (2015). Other film credits include The Legend of 1900 (1998), Planet of the Apes (2001), Funny Games (2007), Selma (2014), Luce (2019), and Bergman Island (2021).
Roth made his directorial debut with~ The War Zone (1999). He played Cal Lightman in the Fox series Lie to Me (2009–2011), Jim Worth / Jack Devlin in the Sky Atlantic series Tin Star (2017–2020), and Emil Blonsky / Abomination in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the films The Incredible Hulk (2008), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).
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Attila Tokatlı
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Attila Tokatlı was a Turkish film director, screenwriter, and translator, known for his contributions to Turkish cinema and literature. Born in Denizli, he graduated from Galatasaray High School and pursued studies in philosophy at Istanbul University. In 1956, Tokatlı moved to Paris, where he continued his education at the Sorbonne University and received training in cinema. Upon returning to Turkey, he directed films such as Denize İnen Sokak (1960) and Seni Kaybedersem (1961). Tokatlı was also a prolific translator, bringing over 100 works into Turkish, including significant literary and philosophical texts. His contributions to both cinema and literature have left a lasting legacy in Turkish cultural history. He passed away in Istanbul at the age of 56.
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Eleanor Wiens Farrelly
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Eleanor Wiens Farrelly is a Cinema Studies & Sexual Diversity Studies student at the University of Toronto, Canada. Eleanor is an indie writer, director, and filmmaker that seeks to explore and uncover societal issues through her art. Eleanor attended Rosedale Heights School of the Arts as a drama/musical theater major and media arts minor and won the principal’s graduating student award in drama. Eleanor has created films including Involuntary (2024), Not Another Shakespeare Tragedy (2024), FAKER! (2024) , My Confidential Romance (2022), and Isolation (2020).
Involuntary was awarded Kudos at the Sci-Fi Horror & Action Film Festival and was a part of the official selection at the Trinity College Film Festival. The movie poster she created for Not Another Shakespeare Tragedy was part of the official selection for Best Poster at Yellowstone International Film Festival. Eleanor also creates music under the name of LENORE WTF, and wrote/sung/produced her first album, Gen Z Weirdo, when she was 18 in 2023, and her sophomore album, A Living Contradiction, in 2024. Eleanor also is interested in the management side of the arts and won Best Publicity (for Legally Blonde) at the 2024 University of Toronto Drama Coalition Awards.
Eleanor also has experience with acting. Past roles include: Igor in Young Frankenstein (Victoria College, University of Toronto, 2024), Zac/Morgan in Want (Victoria College, University of Toronto, 2023), Jason/Ensemble in High School Musical 2 Shadowcast (Victoria College, University of Toronto, 2022), Ash Girl in The Ash Girl (Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts, 2019), Morticia in The Addams Family Musical (Children’s Arts Theatre School, 2019), and The Witch in Into the Woods (TMU Musical Theatre Camp, 2019).
You can find her on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Reddit, and more at @lenorewtf .
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Chris Hegedus
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Chris Hegedus (born April 23, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker. She and her husband, filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, founded the company Pennebaker Hegedus Films.
Hegedus was nominated for an Academy Award for The War Room, a behind-the-scenes film about President Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. The film also won the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures prize for Best Documentary. In 2001, she was awarded the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Startup.com. The film is a boom-bust story of two young internet entrepreneurs, co-produced with Jehane Noujaim. Hegedus was also the recipient of CINE's Golden Eagle Award, an Emmy Award, and lifetime achievement awards from several organizations including the International Documentary Association. Her films include the 2010 feature release, Kings of Pastry, about the legendary French pastry competition, the Meilleur Ouvrier de France. In 2011, Hegedus received the Athena Film Festival Award for Exemplary Directing.
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Andy Cave
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Andy grew up in Royston, a small coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. On leaving school he followed family tradition and began work down the pit, but during the 1984–85 miners’ strike he discovered climbing on his local Peak District crags. Finding he had a natural talent Andy progressed through hard trad E7s, sport routes and hard Scottish winter climbing before venturing further afield into the Alps, blitzing the classic routes. Taking the alpine climbing ethic into the Himalayas Andy made ascents including Gasherbrum IV, the Ogre, Trango Tower and Shishapangma before a fateful ascent of Changabang saw his partner Brendan Murphy swept to his death on the descent. Andy also discovered a talent for writing with his first book, Learning to Breathe, winning the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature in 2005. His second book, Thin White Line, received many accolades including the 2011 Leggimontagna Prize, Italy. Andy has also made numerous radio and TV appearances on BBC and ITV.
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Kabbo Kabir
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Kabbo Kabir, an 22-year-old aspiring filmmaker and screenwriter from Bangladesh. Currently studying at Department of Film and Television in Jagannath University. Kabir has always been driven by a passion for storytelling and strives to come up with new and existing ideas to spread positive messages through his work. He also worked as an editor & cinematographer. As an editor and cinematographer, Kabir brings a fresh perspective to his work and is constantly pushing the boundaries of traditional filmmaking. Over the past few years, Kabir has worked on various projects. His hard work and dedication have not gone unnoticed, and he has won several awards for his work. In 2020, he won 2nd place at the Oqros Pepela ICFF. In 2021-22, he won five awards, including the '2nd Best Film' in 14th Int'l Children's Film Festival Bangladesh 2021, for his short film "Trikonomiti." Kabir has also received 25 more selections from his three short films, which is a testament to his talent and dedication to the craft.
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Sham Ka-Ki
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At the age of 16, Kaki Sham participated in his first film, The Sunshine. After that, he has starred in several Hong Kong and Taiwanese TV dramas and movies. At the age of 18, he was a director of a film for the first time. With the documentary "Live in the Present", he won the 14th IFVA Youth Group Gold Award in a controversy and participated in several foreign film festivals, including the 32nd Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Singapore International Film Festival, the 9th Asian Film Festival, the Yokohama International Film Festival in Japan, and the Hannover International Film Festival Competition. After "Shadow Will", he was invited to shoot the short film "Hope".
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Manos Armoutakis
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Manolis is a filmmaker born in Athens and for the past 10 years living in Heraklion, Crete. His biggest strength is capturing extreme sports videos mostly focusing on downhill, ski and climbing. He has worked for numerous years as a director of photography as well as a camera operator on various commercial, documentary and movie projects. He has also filmed all kinds of events ranging from triathlon races to summer cruises. His extended knowledge of post production and visual effects make him an even greater asset on set.
When not working, Manolis enjoys extreme sports like rock climbing, ice climbing, mountain ski, mountain running, freeride mountain bike as well as sea sports like S.U.P. and open sea swimming.
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Jacques Ouaniche
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Jacques Ouaniche est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste français. Il a créé et produit lui-même la série Maison close pour la chaîne Canal+. Il en a également écrit tous les épisodes et en a réalisé deux. Jacques Ouaniche est également producteur de films notamment avec L'Esquive, drame ayant obtenu quatre César d'Abdellatif Kechiche. En 2013, il réalise son premier long-métrage, Victor Young Perez, biopic du boxeur juif tunisien dans les années 30 qui a été déporté à Auschwitz, et est mort pendant la marche de la mort en 1945, avec dans le rôle titre Brahim Asloum, ancien champion du monde de boxe.
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