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Tatum Miranda

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Tatum Miranda aka Venus, is an actress, model & singer. She was born on a US military base in Belgium & grew up around the Air Force traveling. She went to high school and college in Alaska before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music and film. She has worked on the sets of Horrible Bosses 2, Cat Run 2, True Detective, NCIS LA, MANswers, 1000 Ways To Die, & she recently finished filming her first lead role in the film Most Likely To Die which will be theatrically released in October 2015. She is also set to star as the Jedi Nyla Tardun in a fan film titled Rise of the Empire. Tatum recently began working for Brett Ratner at RatPac Entertainment doing script analysis to improve her efficiency in her own script writing. She was soon inspired to produce her own projects instead waiting around to book other jobs. She is currently writing a feature called The City of Eight and beginning another called Thirst of the Ancients with plans to help produce both. Tatum is a classically trained singer & an independent recording artist. She records out of her own private studio. She is working to complete her first album titled Sub Rosa. She looks forward to combining her passion of music with film.
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Juan Forch

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The Chilean director, author and photographer Juan Forch was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1948. He studied journalism at the Universidad de Chile. While still a student, he worked as a photojournalist for Ramona magazine and joined the ChileFilms company as a scriptwriter and director for short documentaries. In 1972, he also co-wrote with Lucho Abarca the well-known study, Viaje por la juventud (A Journey through Youth, Quimantú publishing house), about the subculture youth scene in Chile. After the military coup in Chile in 1973 and a short detention, he immigrated to East Germany via Mexico. After working at the camera manufacturer, Dresden Pentacon, he joined the DEFA Studio for Animation Films in Dresden and learned the craft of animation. Between 1975 and 1978, Forch made several animation and documentary films drawing on his Chilean background and his artistic and political experiences in exile. The photo collages Chile lebt (1976) and Keiner kann die Revolution aufhalten (1976), the latter in collaboration with media artist Lutz Dammbeck, proclaim a hope for victory of progressive forces over the Pinochet dictatorship. The collage Chile (1975) by Forch and Jörg Herrmann reveals the USA as the backer of the military coup in Chile on September 11, 1973. The trick collage Hitlerpinochet (1975) by Forch and Herrmann draws similarities between political slogans used by Adolf Hitler and Augusto Pinochet. In 1976, Forch and Rolf Hofmann, filmed Chilean students in Dresden while drawing a mural in honor of former President Salvador Allende (Brigada - Ein Beitrag zur Solidarität anläßlich der 16. Arbeiterfestspiele 1976 in Dresden). The cut-out animation film Neutronenfrieden? (1977) offers a warning against a nuclear war instigated by the USA. Forch creates a visually and colorfully powerful epic about the life of the Indigenous Mapuche community in the cut-out film Lautaro (1977), his most comprehensive work at the Dresden studio. Moreover, the animation film Rosaura (1978) by Forch and Lothar Barke atmospherically translates a poem by Juan Forch into images. In 1978, Forch returned to Chile and created short commercials. Parallel to that, he worked on Chilean and foreign documentaries about the political situation in Chile, as well as developing his own productions on the Chilean art scene in the 1980s. In 1988, he was involved in the political NO campaign that helped crumble the Pinochet regime. Director Pablo Larrain narrates the history of this campaign in his feature film NO (2012). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards and screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival where it won the 2012 C.I.C.A.E. Award. Forch was also associate producer for the thriller Johnny cien pesos (1993, dir. Gustavo Graef Marino) that was selected as the Chilean entry for the 2013 Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. After the NO Campaign in Chile, Forch has worked as a consultant on electoral campaign issues and political communication in several Latin American countries. Since 2000, Forch has written several novels, as well as poetry and short stories. He has also had his work featured in galleries and film festivals. Juan Forch currently lives in the southern part of Chile.
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Angelea Preston

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Angelea Preston (born June 16, 1986) is an award winning American reporter and former model. She is best known for her appearances on America's Next Top Model. Preston placed in the top four on cycle 14 and was the original winner of All-Stars, before being disqualified. It was unknown for some time why she was disqualifed. However, in 2013, Preston revealed to the DailyMail it was due to her work as an escort after Cycle 12. Preston claims that producers knew about her work pre All Stars. In 2014, she brought a legal claim against Banks, Silva, Mok, The CW, and other entities involved with the show. According to the complaint, in addition to alleging that she’d been the rightful winner, Preston also alleged that contestants had been paid less than minimum wage, had been denied rest breaks, had been prohibited from speaking for periods up to six hours, and had been denied food and water for hours at a time. The lawsuit was later dropped by Preston when she "realized [she] wasn't going to win." Since leaving the modeling industry, Preston received a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Buffalo State College in 2021. She now works as a Sunday host for NPR’s WBFO in her hometown.
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Sean Connery

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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer. He won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000). Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama. On October 31, 2020, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Dallas Jenkins

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Dallas Lawrence Jenkins (born July 25, 1975) produced the $2 million independent Hometown Legend at the age of 25, ultimately guiding it to Warner Bros. for distribution. Jenkins made his directing debut with the short film Cliché, which FilmThreat called "Fast and funny...ingenious," and his next short film, Midnight Clear, starring Stephen Baldwin, won a Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival and was the opening night selection of the San Diego Film Festival. In 2006, he served as co-executive producer of Though None Go with Me, based on his father's book that aired on The Hallmark Channel. His feature directing debut, also called Midnight Clear, was based on his short film and was featured in over a dozen film festivals, including winning the Cinequest Film Festival award for "Best First Feature" and the "Audience Choice" award at the Kansas Int'l Film Festival. In 2010, Jenkins directed his second feature, entitled What If..., starring Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, John Ratzenberger, and Debby Ryan. Jenkins is currently Director of Media at Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago. In 2017, working through his production company, Vertical Church Films, Jenkins released The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, which didn't perform to the studio's expectations. While working to determine his next project, Jenkins began binge-watching different television shows and realized there had never been a multi-season show about Jesus that could be watched in the same way. The Chosen, which debuted in 2017, is the first multi-season series about the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. Primarily set in 1st century Judaea and Galilee, the series depicts Jesus's life through the eyes of those who interacted with him, including His apostles and disciples, Jewish religious leaders, Roman government and military officials, and ordinary citizens. It has received critical acclaim, with recent seasons premiering theatrically. In 2024, in association with Kingdom Story Productions, Jenkins directed a feature adaptation of Barbara Robinson's children's book The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, starring Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, and Lauren Graham. It was critically and commercially successful, grossing over $40 million.
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Jay Dee Walters

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ay Dee Walters is an American actor, writer, director, and producer known for his work in independent film. Based in East Texas, he has built a career both in front of and behind the camera, contributing to a range of projects as a performer, filmmaker, and producer. He made his directorial debut with Grumpy Old Santa (2023), which he also co-wrote with Justin Chaffee and executive produced. His other work includes Porch Pirates, Blind Turn, Cecil, Chasing Ghosts, and Pickleball: The Movie. As an actor, Walters has appeared in Porch Pirates (2024), Grumpy Old Santa (2023), Cecil (2019), Chasing Ghosts (2014), Blind Turn (2012), and The Crime Scene (2010). In addition to acting, he has served as an executive producer on multiple independent films through his production banner, Ichthys Films, also known as Pine Line Studios.
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Andre Kostelanetz

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Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Kostelanetz escaped in 1922 after the Russian Revolution.He arrived in the United States that year, and in the 1920s, conducted concerts for radio. In the 1930s, he began his own weekly show on CBS, André Kostelanetz Presents. Kostelanetz was known for arranging and recording light classical music pieces for mass audiences, as well as orchestral versions of songs and Broadway show tunes. He made numerous recordings over the course of his career, which had sales of over 50 million and became staples of beautiful music radio stations.For many years, Kostelanetz also conducted the New York Philharmonic in pops concerts and recordings, in which they were billed as Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra. André Kostelanetz may be best known to modern audiences for a series of easy listening instrumental albums on Columbia Records from the 1940s until 1980. Kostelanetz actually started making this music before there was a genre called "easy listening." He continued until after some of his contemporaries, including Mantovani, had stopped recording.
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James Mangold

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James Allen Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Noted for his versatility in tackling a range of genres, Mangold made his debut as a film director with Heavy (1995) and gained recognition for the films Cop Land (1997), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Identity (2003), Walk the Line (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and two films in the X-Men franchise with The Wolverine (2013) and Logan (2017), the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He then directed the sports drama film Ford v Ferrari (2019), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and directed and co-wrote Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), the fifth and final instalment in the Indiana Jones series. For the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (2024), Mangold was once again nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay and his first nomination for Best Director. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Mangold, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marc Bernardin

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Marc Bernardin (born November 29, 1971) is an American journalist, public speaker, TV and comic book writer, and podcaster. He has served as film editor for the Los Angeles Times and senior editor for The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly. He has written for GQ, Wired, Details, Vulture, Playboy, and Empire. He has been a staff writer for Castle Rock, Treadstone, and Carnival Row, and a supervising producer on Star Trek: Picard. Bernardin was an intern on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was a staff writer for the Syfy series Alphas, Hulu's series Castle Rock, based on the stories of Stephen King, USA Network’s series Treadstone, based on the Jason Bourne franchise, and Amazon Prime’s fantasy series Carnival Row. He has written comic books for Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics, and several independent comic publishers. He is the co-creator of the DC comic book series The Highwaymen, which is in development as a major motion picture. He co-hosts the Fatman Beyond podcast with filmmaker Kevin Smith and a second podcast named The Battlestar Galacticast with Tricia Helfer. In 2018, Bernardin won an Inkpot Award, an honour bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International. In 2019, Bernardin joined other WGA writers in firing their agents as part of the WGA's stand against the ATA and the practice of packaging. On August 18, 2019, it was announced that Bernardin would be serving as a writer for Masters of the Universe: Revelation on Netflix. Then, on February 21, 2020, Bernardin was announced to be part of the writing team for the upcoming animated series The Legend of Vox Machina for Amazon Prime Video. On December 19, 2023, Bernardin announced he was part of the writing team for the upcoming animated series Eyes of Wakanda for Disney+. In 2024, Bernardin partnered with Neil Gaiman to adapt the latter's novel Anansi Boys into a multi-volume comic series, with art by Shawn Martinbrough. Published by Dark Horse Comics, the first volume of Anansi Boys will run for eight issues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marc Bernardin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Paul Kandel

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Paul Kandel (born February 15, 1951 in Queens, New York, USA) is an American musical theatre actor and tenor singer best known for his only film role in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) as the voice of Clopin. He also has appeared on Broadway a number of times, having appeared in Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod, Titanic, The Who's Tommy, and The Visit. Kandel received a nomination for the 1993 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Uncle Ernie in The Who's Tommy.
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