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Stefanos Sitaras
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Stefanos Sitaras is a Greek film director, screenwriter, and producer. Films he has directed include Galazio kai portokali (2004), H. (2014), and O pyravlos (2019). His father was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and his mother is of Italian ancestry.
His career began at age 13, when he attended the New York Film Academy program in Paris and directed Through the Eyes of a Child (2003). At age 14, he wrote and directed the award-winning Galazio kai portokali (2004), a historical epic about the Asia Minor wars of 1914. Shot and presented in 35mm, the film opened the 2005 Athens International Film Festival, stirring audiences and critics into an experience which, according to Thodoris Koutsogiannopoulos, "conveys memories written in our DNA, and translates war into concrete terms of time and space, scarce even among accomplished filmmakers with years of experience."
The young director's career continued with the Trilogy of Zitiano, three short films about the adventures of a street beggar. Esperando (2005), Hitherto (2006), and Morbido (2007) competed in a prodigious amount of international film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, Palm Springs, Berlinale, Mannheim-Heidelberg, LA Shorts Fest and the Thessaloniki Film Festival. During that time, he also directed the comedic short Gregory and Stamatis (2006), the documentary The Verification (2006), and more.
In 2007 he moved to Boston Massachusetts, to study film at Emerson College, with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. In 2009, he produced and directed the television film Colors of the West (2009), a historical drama starring Giannis Zouganelis, who called Stefanos Sitaras "the most important artist of his generation." The following year he made his award-winning short films Photographia (2008), Niqab (2010), Noise (2010), and Suction (2010), culminating in the experimental The Fritzl Effect (2011), which was honored in over twenty international film festivals, mainly for its directing and editing.
After graduating in 2011, he worked in Los Angeles and New York, primarily as a writer, cinematographer, and editor.
In 2012, at the age of 22, he returned to Athens, working mainly in theatre and advertising. He wrote and directed H. (2014), co-produced by Paper Street Films, the Greek America Foundation, and Principal Media of Libra Group. He also collaborated with legendary stage director Dimitris Papaioannou for three consecutive seasons, in the performance-art pieces Primal Matter and Still Life (2012 - 2014). He directed commercials for Amstel beer, Herbalife Nutrition, the Make a Wish Foundation, and more.
Between 2015 and 2019, Stefanos Sitaras directed his first feature film, the hangout comedy O pyravlos (2019). Shot entirely with non-actors over four years in Greece and Italy, O pyravlos (2019) chronicles the friendship of two young men as they grow apart over the years.
Stefanos Sitaras lives and works in Athens, Greece. He started his own production company Random Party, a media development and production house, aimed at discovering new talent and developing projects by young filmmakers in Greece and Europe.
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Andres Muhlach
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Antonio Andres Bonnin Muhlach (born on November 5, 2001) is a Filipino actor and model. Hailing from Philippine showbiz royalty as the son of Filipino actor Aga Muhlach and former beauty queen Charlene Gonzales, Andres initially chose a life away from the cameras, studying Business and Communications at Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain. He officially joined the industry in 2024, signing with Viva Entertainment and making his debut in the family sitcom Da Pers Family. He achieved a cinematic and television breakthrough in 2025 with his role as Mark Keifer Watson in the romantic drama Ang Mutya ng Section E (The Jewel of Section E), a performance that earned him the award for Best New Male TV Personality at the 38th PMPC Star Awards. By early 2026, Andres has successfully stepped into his father’s massive legacy, taking on the iconic role of Adie in the theatrical production Bagets: The Musical at the Newport Performing Arts Theater. Alongside his film debut in Jason Paul Laxamana's Minamahal: 100 Bulaklak Para Kay Luna (2025), he continues to establish his own distinct identity as a versatile performer on both screen and stage.
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Lena Marie Rheinländer
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Lena Marie Rheinländer (*1997) is a German filmmaker, stage performer and choreographer. Rheinländer studied in contemporary dance and street styles in Zurich, as well as film at the film department at Zurich University of the Arts. Her solo director‘s debut in the dance short film ALBA (2024) was selected for the semifinals of the 51st Student Academy Awards ® 2024 in the category “Alternative/Experimental". In 2025, she received the Alexis Victor Thalberg Award for her work in sound design in the documentary essay TERRITORY (2024) by Felix Scherrer.
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Benson Koo
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Benson Koo (古本森) is a Hong Kong visual artist, independent film director, and bassist for the band eli (everlasting illusion). He has directed several independent short films, including “Cinema Quietude” (2021), which was shot at the abandoned Cheung Chau Theatre and screened more than twenty times in the adjacent, now-derelict soy sauce factory building. During the pandemic in 2020, he initiated the “Doomsday Phone booth” art project, collecting last words online and turning them into a video series. His first feature film, “The Perks of Being Wild” (2024), broke conventions in filming, production, distribution, promotion, and screening, presenting moving screenings across various Hong Kong communities, such as beachside kiosks, building rooftops, cafés, cha chaan tengs, stationery shops, bookstores, and dessert parlours. Through these efforts, he sought to encourage the public to reflect on the relationship between cinema and public space.
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Rob Carlton
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Rob Carlton (born 4 May 1971) is an Australian actor and writer. He is best known for writing and starring in the comedy series Chandon Pictures.
Carlton has been a professional actor since the age of 14 and has appeared in many television series from Young Ramsay to A Country Practice, Home and away, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Fireflies, McLeod's Daughters and All Saints.
In the mid-1990s, Carlton was living in Los Angeles. He accepted the role of continuity coordinator for an Australian film in Melbourne.
Carlton is also a professional speaker, who has worked as a master of ceremonies, compère, facilitator and motivational speaker.
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Loredana Nesci
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Loredana Nesci was an American criminal defense attorney, reality star, and former LAPD police officer. She was previously a bodybuilder and WWE Diva. She starred in her own reality show about her professional life as a criminal defense attorney called "Loredana, Esq." on the Sundance channel. She had a son named Rocco with her boyfriend Robert Reagan, a former model.
On June 22, 2015, she was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, Robert Reagan. In September 2017, he was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 16 years to life in prison. The crime was chronicled on the true crime series Death by Fame (S2:E2).
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Tathagata Bhattacherjee
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Tathagata Bhattacherjee (Born September 17, 1969) is an Indian Film Maker working since 1994. He has directed Feature Films, Corporate Films, Ad Films, Documentaries, Television Films and Short Films. Tathagata is also a professional Screen Writer as well as has significant experience in Training in Film Making and Screen Writing. He is the Director-Writer of Bengali Feature Films Antarghaat (2001), Seven Days (2011), Astra (2012) and is the Executive Producer of Hindi Feature Film Raahgir (2019). His other Directorial ventures (non-feature films) are in English, Hindi and Bengali languages. Tathagata is a Member of Eastern India Motion Picture Directors' Association. His most recent directorial venture is Bengali Feature Film Akorik (2022) starring National Award winning Actors Padmabhushan Victor Banerjee and Rituparna Sengupta, Anuradha Ray, Angana Bose, Sudeshna Chakraborty and Anindo Sarkar in pivotal roles.
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Brayden Cross
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Brayden Cross is an American gamer. He was born on July 14, 2002, in Coshocton, Ohio, United States, to Warren Cross and Retta Cross. He attended Conesville Elementary School (2007–2015), River View Junior High School (2015–2017), and River View High School (2017–2021), graduating in 2021. He discovered Minecraft in the summer of 2012 and first played on Pocket Edition v0.5.0 alpha. He attended Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue on December 19, 2024, an appearance that was covered by The Coshocton Beacon on January 9, 2025. He attended a screening of A Minecraft Movie at Shelby Theatres on April 6, 2025.
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Nikki Stone
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Nicole 'Nikki' Stone (born February 4, 1971) is a former American Olympic skier. In her career Stone has won 35 World Cup medals, 11 World Cup titles, four national titles, two year-long Aerial World Cup titles, and a World Championship title. She also became the first pure aerialist ever (male or female) to become the year-long Overall Freestyle World Cup Champion. She was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2003.
She competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and is best known for being the first American to win a gold medal as inverted aerial skier. Aerial Skiing is a sport where athletes ski into a 10 feet (3.0 m) snow jump at approximately 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), flip and/or twist to a height of 50 feet (15 m) and land on a 45 degree hill. Eighteen months before this second Olympic appearance, Stone sustained a career-threatening spinal injury in which doctors believed she would never jump again.
At the 2002 Olympics, she carried the Olympic torch off the plane, along with Bill Spencer, that had brought it to the U.S. from Greece.
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George Bruns
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George Edward Bruns (July 3, 1914 – May 23, 1983) was an American composer of music for film and television. His accolades include four Academy Award nominations and three Grammy Award nominations. He is mainly known for his compositions for numerous Disney films from the 1950s to the 1970s, among them Sleeping Beauty (1959), One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Absent-Minded Professor (both 1961), The Sword in the Stone (1963), The Jungle Book (1967), The Love Bug (1968), The Aristocats (1970), and Robin Hood (1973). In the 1930s he worked as a musician with various groups in the Portland, Oregon area. In 1946 he was appointed musical director at radio station KEX in Portland, Oregon, and also was the bandleader for the Rose Bowl room of the Multnomah Hotel. From 1947 to 1949 he performed and recorded on trombone with Portland's Castle Jazz Band, led by banjoist Monte Ballou.
In the late 1940s he moved to Los Angeles, where he did studio work, and performed and recorded with trombonist Turk Murphy's Jazz Band. In 1953 he was hired by Walt Disney as an arranger, eventually becoming Disney's musical director, a position he held until his retirement in 1976. Despite his retirement he continued to work on Disney projects.
Among his work is the song "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" (which he co-wrote with Xavier Atencio), used in the Disney theme park attraction Pirates of the Caribbean and the movies based on that ride. He also co-wrote "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" with Tom W. Blackburn, as well as the song "Love" for the Disney animated film Robin Hood. During the mid-1950s, he adapted the music from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet for use as background score in the 1959 Disney film version. He also composed the score for The Jungle Book, and provided Herbie the Love Bug with his sprightly theme song, featured prominently throughout the series.
During his tenure with Disney Studios, Bruns continued to play dixieland jazz, leading his Wonderland Jazz Band on two recording sessions, and playing and recording occasionally with the Disney "house" band, the Firehouse Five Plus Two.
Bruns retired from Disney in 1976 and moved back to Sandy, Oregon.He taught part-time at Lewis & Clark College and continued to play and compose music, including recording at least one locally distributed album of jazz.-Wikipedia
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