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Maaya Sakamoto
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Maaya Sakamoto is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in Little Twins, but is better known as voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne. Other major roles in anime include Riho Yamazaki in Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective, Moe Katsuragi in Risky Safety, Princess Tomoyo in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Haruhi Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Sayaka Nakasugi in Birdy the Mighty, Ciel Phantomhive in Black Butler, Shinobu Oshino in Monogatari, Shiki Ryougi in the Kara no Kyoukai film series, and Motoko Kusanagi in the newer Ghost in the Shell films and series. In video games she voices Aura and Natsume in .hack, Lisa Hamilton / La Mariposa in Dead or Alive, Aeris in Kingdom Hearts, Aigis in Persona 3, Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII games, Ling Xiaoyu in the Tekken series, and Alisa Illinichina Amiella in God Eater.
She has also branched into singing, performing songs in both English and Japanese. She released her debut single "Yakusoku wa Iranai" in collaboration with Yoko Kanno under Victor Entertainment on April 24, 1996. Her singles "Tune the Rainbow", "Loop", "Ame ga Furu", and "Triangler" have all reached the top 10 Oricon singles chart: "Triangler" in particular charted at number 3 and remained charting for 26 weeks. Her albums have had similar success, with Shōnen Alice and Yūnagi Loop both reaching the top 10 Oricon albums chart; and her album You Can't Catch Me, released on January 12, 2011, became her first release to ever reach number 1. She held a concert at the Nippon Budokan on March 31, 2010, her thirtieth birthday. In the Japanese localization of overseas dubs, she has voiced Padme Amidala as presented in the Star Wars films and cartoons, as well as being the dub voice for Natalie Portman on numerous films.
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Marcus Goh
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Marcus Goh is a scriptwriter with close to a decade of experience in Singapore’s media industry.
He was born and bred in Singapore, where he spent his formative years at Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College, under the auspices of the Gifted Education Programme. He later graduated from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, with a B.A. in Communication Studies, majoring in Broadcast and minoring in English Literature and Business.
He spent half a decade at MediaCorp as a scriptwriter, and has worked on shows such as Crimewatch, Police and Thief, Incredible Tales, Point of Entry and Polo Boys. He also collaborated with an Australian production company, Great Western Entertainment, to brainstorm for HBO’s Serangoon Road.
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Jason Tostevin
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Jason Tostevin is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, film festival director, and founder of Hands Off Productions, a boutique studio with a worldwide reputation for its short genre films.
Jason graduated from The Ohio State University with an honors degree in English. He has worked as a brand, communications and marketing leader and producer for agencies and Fortune 100 businesses.
A longtime fiction writer, in 2009 he made the switch to writing and directing short films, beginning with thriller, horror and documentary shorts for sprint contests. In 2010 he directed the fantasy short "Stones," which was named to the final international best-of list and DVD for the 48 Hour Film Project, and was presented in a special screening during the Cannes Film Festival. He also starred in his first three shorts.
In 2011 he created and co-developed the broadcast television series The Screen, which ran for a six-episode season in Columbus before being syndicated on PBS stations around the country. Jason has directed commercials, corporate videos and championship short films - but his first and longest love is genre movies.
Jason has directed and produced a string of festival-hit short genre films, including horror comedy 'Til Death (included in the anthology Seven Hells), Twilight Zone-thriller I Owe You (Cinema Constant's indie short of the year), crime drama A Way Out (more than 100 fest selections; starring Robert Costanzo) and horror comedy Born Again (released by Short of the Week). He is also known for award-winning short screenplays, including Dead Sprint (30 nominations and awards, including best screenplay at Mile High Horror Film Festival, and Fresh Voices top 10).
In 2016, Jason co-founded Nightmares Film Festival, a celebration of "Better Horror." iHorror called Nightmares "the Cannes of horror," and Bloody Disgusting said it is "among the best genre festivals anywhere." It has been FilmFreeway's top-rated genre festival for 30 consecutive months.
Jason has become a leader in independent film, speaking at festivals and presenting film circuit insight in his "#BetterFesting" live broadcasts. In 2017, film site Cinema Runner named him independent horror's "most influential short-film maker," noting that he is considered "a sort of indie prophet" by his peers, honoring him for "changing the face of indie horror shorts and elevating horror expectations."
He has been inducted into two filmmaking halls of fame, one as a director and one as a producer. The best of the festival award at Austin Revolution Film Festival is named "The Tostevin."
Jason lives in Ohio with his wife, two daughters and the family's half-pitbull, Milo.
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Michael Rainheart
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Michael Rainheart is an Indonesian film producer whose works have screened at international festivals, including the Oscar-qualifying Leeds International Film Festival (UK), Beirut Shorts International Film Festival (Lebanon), Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (Japan), Singapore International Film Festival (Singapore), and Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (Indonesia).
A participant of Platform BUSAN 2024, he has been nominated for the Indonesian Academy Awards (Citra Awards) with MY PLASTIC MOTHER (2025) and previously shortlisted with SUNDAY (2022) and BURNING BLUE (2023).
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Patricia Avery
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Patricia Avery (November 12, 1902 – August 21, 1973) was an American silent film actress of the 1920s.
Born Elizabeth Anderson Avery in Boston, Massachusetts, Avery moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting during the early 1920s, and her career started off strong. Her first film role was in 1927 when she starred in Annie Laurie alongside the films lead actress, Lillian Gish. She had roles in three films that year, which led to her being one of thirteen girls selected to be "WAMPAS Baby Stars", a list which included silent movie star Sally Phipps, and actresses Frances Lee and Barbara Kent.
Although it appeared that she was on the way up with her career, she in fact was at its height. She had only one more film role, starring in Alex the Great in 1928 alongside Richard Gallagher and Albert Conti. Her career promptly ended following that film. With no other roles coming her way, she left her short-lived acting career behind her. She would later marry art director Merrill Pye, who would later be nominated for an Oscar for his work on the 1959 film North by Northwest. They resided in La Crescenta, California until her death in 1973. She was 70.
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Martin Potter
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Martin Potter (born 4 October 1944) is a British actor. After the National Youth Theatre and repertory theatre in Guildford and Hampstead, Potter received his first role in British television at the age of 24 in the television drama The Bonegrinder (1968) written by Dennis Potter. In the same year he had another small part alongside Brian Cox in the futuristic drama The Year of the Sex Olympics. One year later Potter's career took off with a much larger role. The Italian director Federico Fellini chose him for the main role of Encolpius in his film Satyricon. Terence Stamp, Fellini's original choice for the main role, was not available, and Fellini was looking for someone of a similar appearance. After this star role, Potter's career tended back to smaller roles again: mostly B-movies and television productions like the film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Olive. Among his more well-known parts are the history film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and the film The Big Sleep (with Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe). He also appeared in horror films, including Craze with Jack Palance, and television series such as Doctor Who. In 1975 he achieved some popularity with the title part of Robin Hood in a TV mini-series The Legend of Robin Hood. In 1985 he again took a part in a production concerning Ancient Rome: the American mini-series A.D. in which he portrayed the Roman politician and opponent of Nero, Gaius Calpurnius Piso.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Élise Lucet
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Élise Lucet (born 30 May 1963) is a French journalist and television host. Known for her investigative journalism work on shows such as Pièces à Conviction, Cash Investigation and Envoyé spécial, she has been dubbed France's "incorruptible journalist". In 2008, she was named Knight of the Legion of Honour. Lucet's work for Cash Investigation garnered her and her crew around twenty international awards including a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for their investigation on the Panama Papers.
Élise Lucet was born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime. Her father is a teacher and her mother a school director. She has a sister. Lucet began her career under Henri Sannier on the Caen affiliate of France 3 in 1983. She subsequently worked for Sygma TV and the public service radio station France Inter. In 1990, she became the host of the 19/20 evening news on France 3. In 1997, she became its lead editor.
As a writer and television producer, Lucet hosted Pièces à Conviction from 2000 until 2011. In 2005, she left 19/20 to host 13 heures le journal on France 2. In 2012, she began hosting Cash Investigation, an investigative television programme; she has also hosted Envoyé spécial since 2016.
Cash Investigation brought to light some controversies:
- In June 2012, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) sued France 2 to prevent broadcast of an interview of the NGO's management. The courts ruled in favour of France 2.
- In October 2013, the programme revealed that the Government of France had fined the training arm of gardening company Jardiland 3.2 million euros in September 2012, with regards to fraudulent transactions concerning hundreds of false training certificates issued between 2007 and 2011. The certificates allowed Jardiland to illegally receive subsidies from professional training organisations. Jardiland announced it would bring a defamation suit against France Télévisions, publicly accusing the Cash Investigation report of presenting false information. In April 2015, Jardiland withdrew its suit.
- In 2015, Rachida Dati criticised the broadcast for raising questions about a possible link between herself and the Engie corporation (formerly GDF-Suez).
- In 2015, Élise Lucet took part in a demonstration by the collective named "Informer n’est pas un délit" (English: Informing is not a crime) against a proposed French law about trade secrets, an amendment to the Loi pour la croissance, l'activité et l'égalité des chances économiques (Law for growth, activity and equality of economic opportunity), known as the "Loi Macron". She opposed the measure because it would hamper the production of broadcasts like Cash Investigation. A book was published in 2015. ...
Source: Article "Élise Lucet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Nicolas Chevallier
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Nicolas Chevallier is a French-born visual effects supervisor at Framestore. He studied at Supinfocom Valenciennes, following an early academic interest in thermodynamics and applied physics.
Chevallier began his career in the industry in 2001 at BUF Compagnie in Paris. There he worked as a CG artist on films such as The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions before rising to CG supervisor and then visual effects supervisor, contributing to major productions including Batman Begins, Silent Hill and Thor. During his time at BUF, he earned a VES Award nomination for his work on Thor.
After nearly a decade at BUF, Chevallier spent two years in London working at BlueBolt as a VFX Supervisor, contributing to films such as Snow White and the Huntsman and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. In 2013, he relocated with his family to Montréal to work at MPC, serving as Compositing Supervisor on Into the Woods (2014).
In March 2015, Chevallier joined Cinesite in Montréal as a VFX Supervisor. One of his landmark projects was The Revenant (2015). At Cinesite, he led roughly 86 artists across multiple global offices to deliver 138 VFX shots — about 38 minutes of finished film — comprising digital matte paintings, set extensions, fluid and particle simulations, character animation, lighting, CG environments, and compositing. The effort contributed significantly to the film's immersive realism.
In 2017, Chevallier moved to Framestore, where he has led numerous projects. His credits there include Now You See Me 2, X‑Men: Apocalypse, Black Sails (TV), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), and more family-oriented work such as Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020) and Flora & Ulysses (2021). For Timmy Failure, his team brought to life a photorealistic polar bear character called "Total," blending detailed anatomy, fur, light interaction, and naturalistic behaviour to integrate into the live-action film believably.
Throughout his career, Chevallier has earned recognition from his peers. For The Revenant, he won the Visual Effects Society Award (VES) in 2016 for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature (shared with Richard McBride, Ivy Agregan, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer). He was nominated for a VES Award in 2012 for Thor (Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture, shared with Xavier Allard and Pierre Buffin). Furthermore, his work on Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made garnered a 2021 VES nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode. His contribution to Into the Woods led to a 2015 nomination at the Hollywood Post Alliance Award (HPA) for Outstanding Visual Effects – Feature Film.
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Robert Paul Taylor
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A native of San Francisco, Robert Paul Taylor, ruggedly handsome, began his career as a dancer, appearing in multiple MTV commercials which led to work in a dozen music videos for stars such as Gwen Stefani, Pussycat Dolls, and Elton John.
On television, Robert plays the hardened Troik Warrior in Star Wars Skeleton Crew opposite Jude Law on Disney. He gained earlier attention with a breakout 8-episode arc as Remy Ramirez on Hulu's East Los High and delivered notable guest roles in Better Call Saul, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Fresh Off The Boat, Berlin Station and The Good Place. Internationally, Taylor can be seen as Raul in Russia's mega-hit Chernobyl.
On the silver screen, Robert stars in Five Piece, North Hollywood Love Story, and South 32. He has also appeared in acclaimed films, including In Her Place and Jack Henry Robbins' VHYes.
As a screenwriter, Taylor co-wrote several features, including Mask of Janus, Recoil, South 32, and By The Rivers of Babylon. He created the mini-series The Bathroom Diaries and is the creator and star of the Zeus Network's Sober Coach.
In addition to his work on screen, Taylor is an accomplished author, having published multiple volumes of poetry and prose through Street Fame Books. His works, which are available worldwide via Barnes & Noble and Amazon, include: Burn Ash Rise (2019), Impasse (2018), Solitary Man (2016), Of Everything I Once Loved (2015), All Out War (2013), Like This (2011), and Drifting (2010).
Taylor is represented by Smith & Hervey/Grimes (US), Lucky Star (EU), and 4Walls (UK).
He resides in Hollywood, California, with his two beloved dogs, Charlie and Skip.
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