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Leo Maino
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Leo Maino is a Brazilian actor known for Maré Nova (2021), Vigia (2020) by Fliper Produções, and Todas As Cores de Arthur (2016) among other films. In 2021 he won the award for best monologue at Ibifest - Festival de Cinema de Ibitinga, and in 2019 he made his directorial debut with The Young Folks (2019), in which he also wrote, produced and worked as the Production Designer. The film was a semi-finalist in the Realtime International Film Festival 2020, and selected for The Lift-Off Sessions 2020 and First-Time Filmmaker Sessions 2020. As a writer Leo worked on the comics Pigman Stories (of his own creation) in which he also illustrated and designed its whole look.
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Kostas Sfikas
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Kostas Sfikas (Athens, 1927 - Athens 25 May 2009) was a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor. For his film The Model he won half the award for best feature film at the 15th Greek Film Festival. In 1961 he started as a documentary filmmaker with his short films Inauguration (1962), which is recorded as a directed documentary, Waiting (1963) and Theraic Morning (1968), co-directed by Stavros Tornes, which was later purchased by the MOMA in New York. During the years of the dictatorship he seems to have developed a completely different cinematic approach - problematic, completely outside of anything that had been seen in domestic cinema up to that point. Dedicated to experimental cinema, Kostas Sfikas directed documentaries and fiction films, constituting a consistent alternative voice in the field of Greek cinema, the "last ideal of our solitary cinema".
Kostas Sfikas is a director who tested, one might say to the extreme, the tolerances and endurance of cinematic creativity, he reflected and labored for another, completely radical and deviating from the usual narrative cinema, approach to cinematic culture. In other times and under other circumstances he would have been an outcast. In those times and in those circumstances, it was treated as an admittedly extreme but respected and existing trend, which enriched the reflections on what it is, how it is constructed, how it is read, how cinematographic creation is accepted. The Model is a film, outside the Greek data and established norms, which surprises from the beginning. It is silent, without sound and music – basically it has no actors, although there are human figures, dozens of figures, moving in the frame –, consisting of a single shot! The film is based on an idea related to Eisenstein's idea of filming economic relations as described in Karl Marx's Capital. After this pioneering start, Sfikas would continue with the film Metropolises (1975), Allegory (1986), The Prophetic Bird of Sorrows by Paul Klee (1995), Prometheus of Opposite Directions (1998), The Woman of... and the Collector (2002), Metamorphosis (2007).
Sfikas' translation work is significant. He translated the works of Sergei Eisenstein: Cinema and Painting, Beyond the Stars, and The Form of Film, André Bazin: What is Cinema (Ontology and Language, An Aesthetic of Realism and Neorealism), Noel Birch: The Act of Cinema. The highlight of his translation work is his work on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. He has also translated Honoré de Balzac's works The Splendor and the Misery of Companies and Lost Dreams.
Kostas Sfikas' visits to the Cinetic offices for 30 years have created a tradition of high-level discussions with Lakis Papastathis and Takis Hatzopoulos, creators of the show, and led to the creation of ten of his shows for Paraskenio: The Violinist Tatsis Apostolidis, Notation in the Work of Yannis Christos, The Gospel According to Mark, The Circus, Voices and Haunts of Rebetiko, Expressionism in Cinema, Molière's Misanthrope, Montage in Eisenstein, An Allegory of Power, The Enigmatic Monsieur Jules Verne.
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Loquillo
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José María Sanz Beltrán, Loquillo or Loco (born 21 December 1960) is a Spanish rock singer.[1] He was born in Barcelona.[2] Beginning in the 1980s, he performed as Teddy Loquillo, and then with the groups Loquillo y los Intocables, and later Loquillo y Los Trogloditas. He started out as a rockabilly artist, and then became more famous mixing pop, punk and rock. He played as a solo act as well as performing with the Trogloditas, but they broke up in 2008. Nowadays, he's a widely recognised solo artist in Spain. He also writes blogs on elmundo.es.
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Armando Salas
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Armando Salas, ASC, is a cinematographer. Born in Havana, Cuba, he immigrated to the United States during the Mariel boatlift. He grew up in Miami, where his passion for filmmaking took root. As a teenager, he began shooting skateboarding videos and experimenting with Super 8 films while attending the New World School of the Arts.
Salas earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he pioneered a focus on narrative film production within a fine arts setting and developed a distinct visual voice. He received an MFA from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, where he was awarded the prestigious Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and won the 2002 American Society of Cinematographers Student Heritage Award.
After refining his craft on independent films and commercials, Salas transitioned into television, earning critical acclaim and an Emmy nomination for his work on Ozark. His recent credits include The Old Man starring Jeff Bridges, the Apple TV+ sci-fi drama Invasion, and The Terminal List, where he partnered with director Antoine Fuqua on the pilot episode. His upcoming work includes Netflix’s limited series Griselda, starring Sofía Vergara, and Marvel’s new series Wonder Man.
In 2020, Salas was inducted into the American Society of Cinematographers. As a proud ASC member, he remains dedicated to advancing the art of cinematography—mentoring emerging talent from diverse backgrounds and championing the craft amid evolving technologies.
Based in Los Angeles, Salas is bilingual and works across the U.S. and internationally.
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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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Daniel Schmid
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Daniel Schmid (26 December 1941 – 5 August 2006) was a Swiss theatre and film director.
In 1982, his film Hécate was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. His film Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. In 1988, he was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival.
A new documentary film on Schmid's life Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense, had its U.S. premiere at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco on June 20, 2011.
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Katrin Pärn
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Katrin Pärn (born May 20, 1977) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress and singer.
Katrin Pärn was born in Tallinn to actor, theatre founder, and director Eino Baskin (1929–2015) and actress and politician Malle Pärn (born 1945). She had one older half-brother, actor Roman Baskin (1954–2018), from her father's first marriage to actress Ita Ever. She attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn before enrolling at the EMA Higher Drama School (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre), graduating in 2000 under the direction of Ingo Normet. In 2008, she received a master's degree in the dramatic arts from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. She has also lived and studied abroad in the United States, New Zealand and Germany.
From 2000 to 2008 Pärn was engaged as at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu where she performed in roles as both an actress and in musical productions. Some of her more memorable roles at the Vanemuine include: Peemont, in a production of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita; Linda, in Willy Russell's Blood Brothers; Abigail Williams, in Arthur Miller's The Crucible; Rebecca, in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude; and Lora, in Vaino Vahing's Stars in a Morning Sky. In 2010, Katrin Pärn appeared at the Tartu New Theatre in a production of the Ivar Põllu penned and directed Ird, K., about controversial Estonian theatre actor and stage pedagogue Kaarel Ird. For her performance, Pärn would be nominated for Best Actress by the Estonian Theatre Union.
Katrin Pärn made her television debut as an actress in 2007 on an episode of the Eesti Televisioon (ETV) crime-drama series Ohtlik lend. She would go on to make appearances in several popular Estonian series such as the Kanal 2 crime-drama Kelgukoerad in 2010; the Kanal 2 crime-drama Viimane võmm in 2014; and the Kanal 2 drama Restart in 2015.
In 2016, Pärn made her feature-length film debut in a supporting role as Maret in the Mart Kivastik directed comedy-drama Õnn tuleb magades for Kopli Kinokompanii and Vintage Pictures, starring Katariina Unt and Ivo Uukkivi. The following year, she appeared as Ode in the Sulev Keedus directed drama film Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari (The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow).
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Cassandra Ciangherotti
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She is a Mexican film, theater and television actress (b. 1987, Cuernavaca, Morelos). She comes directly from the Soler family of actors. She is the daughter of the late actor Fernando Luján and sister of actress Vanessa Ciangherotti, actor Fernando Ciangherotti and director Fernando Canek.
She trained as an actress at CazaAzul Artes Escénicas and Argos.
She got her first leading role in the film Viaje Redondo (2009), by Gerardo Tort, a character that won her the award for Best Actress at the Festival International du Film D'Amiens. Some time later, she filmed Paradas continuas (2009), by Gustavo Loza. In television she participated in the series Locas de Amor under the production of Carmen Armendáriz.
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David Andrews
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David Andrews (born January 1, 1952) is an American actor, best known for his role as General Robert Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Andrews was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His attended the Louisiana State University as an undergraduate and followed with a year at the Duke University School of Law and two at Stanford Law School, from which he graduated in the late 1970s. He set his career off in style by starring in the 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. For the rest of the 80s Andrews did not have any major hits, mainly focusing on a TV career. In 1990 he starred in Stephen King's Graveyard Shift and in 1994 he was James Earp in Kevin Costners Wyatt Earp. His career was boosted by starring in the TV series Mann & Machine. In 1995 he played astronaut Pete Conrad, alongside Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton in the classic space drama Apollo 13.
In the late 90s Andrews concentrated on more television projects and starred in TV films such as Our Son, the Matchmaker, Fifteen and Pregnant, which also starred Kirsten Dunst, and the hit TV film Switched at Birth. In 1998 he played another astronaut, Frank Borman, in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. He had a brief role as Major General Eldridge G. Chapman, commander of the 13th Airborne Division, in the Band of Brothers miniseries. 1999 was a great year for Andrews: not only that he did get the success from Switched at Birth but also Fight Club, which starred Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Andrews started off the millennium by starring in Navigating the Heart before moving on to the sequel of the cannibal series Hannibal, starring Anthony Hopkins.
In 2002 he appeared in A Walk to Remember, and in 2003 he starred in Two Soldiers, The Chester Story and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. He also replaced John M. Jackson in the final season of JAG, playing Judge Advocate General Major General Gordon 'Biff' Cresswell. He was Edwin Jensen in the TV Movie The Jensen Project. Andrews played the role of Scooter Libby in the 2010 film, Fair Game, based on the Valerie Plame affair.
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Mark Kelly
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Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician and a retired astronaut and naval officer. He is the senior United States senator from Arizona, a seat he has held since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Kelly flew combat missions during the Gulf War as a naval aviator before being selected as a NASA Space Shuttle pilot in 1996. His identical twin brother, Scott Kelly, also became a NASA astronaut that year. Mark flew his first space mission in 2001 as pilot of STS-108, then piloted STS-121 in 2006, and commanded STS-124 in 2008 and STS-134 (the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour) in 2011. In January 2011, Kelly's wife, then-Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords, was shot and nearly killed in an assassination attempt in Arizona. Kelly retired from the Navy and NASA that October. In 2013, Kelly and Giffords founded a nonprofit political action committee, Americans for Responsible Solutions (later merged into Giffords), which campaigned for gun control measures like universal background checks.
Kelly was first elected to the Senate in a 2020 special election triggered by the death of Senator John McCain. He defeated incumbent Republican Martha McSally in the general election, becoming the first Democrat to win the seat since 1962. Kelly was reelected to a full term in 2022.
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