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Pamela Koffler

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Pamela Koffler is an American film and television producer and founding partner of Killer Films, an independent New York-based production company she co-leads with Christine Vachon. Koffler has produced a large body of critically acclaimed and award-winning films and television series, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mildred Pierce, The Velvet Underground, Past Lives, and May December, which premiered in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix. Koffler has been nominated for various entertainment awards, including Primetime Emmy Award and PGA Award nominations for Mrs. Harris in 2006 and Mildred Pierce in 2011, a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2002 and win for I'm Losing You in 2000, and an IDA Award win for This American Life in 2008.
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Erin Raftery

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Erin Raftery is of Irish descent. She was born in Thompson, Connecticut, to Rita and James Raftery, who are from Hell's Kitchen New York City. Earning an athletic scholarship, she graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in Political Science, eventually leaving her job with Congressman Joe Courtney in Washington DC to pursue a career as an artist. Erin trained as an actor at the renowned Herbert Berghof Studio, a professional performing arts school located in Greenwich Village, New York City. (Uta Hagen, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Candice Bergen, Al Pacino, Sarah Jessica Parker.) She moved to Los Angeles after spending a few years in New York City working in the theatre world, eventually starring in and producing the short film Joy Division(2009), set in WWII Germany, which premiered internationally at Cannes Film Festival(2010). The short premiered nationally at Nantucket Film Festival(2010) and has been shown to wide audiences to bring awareness to sex crimes committed at holocaust labor camps.
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Mireille Dumas

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Mireille Dumas (born 10 September 1953) is a French journalist, television producer and presenter. Mireille Dumas was born in Chartres in the department of Eure-et-Loir, the fifth of six children. Her father as a teacher and died when she was only aged. Her mother was also a teacher in Ymonville raised her children alone. Mireille Dumas is married with the television director Dominique Colonna. Mireille Dumas began her career in theatre and was a member of the Peter Brook troop. She then produced some documentaries after a short appearance on Antenne 2 in the program Sexy Folies in 1986. Among those that were primed, these include Le passé retrouvé: Alice Sapritch en Turquie, nominated at the 7 d'Or in 1990, and the trilogy Crimes et passions, laureate of the European Film Awards in 1991. In July 1991, she created the production company MD productions, orientated on documentaries about society subjects. These films arborate sensitive, controversial and even intimistic themes, like Les Enfants de Medellin broadcast on France 2 in 1994, or even Graine de top-models in 1996. But it is by creating and presenting programs specialized in interviews in an intimate way, with well-known or anonymous persons, that Mireille Dumas became one of the emblematic figures of the French audiovisual field. Starting in September 1992, Bas les masques is one of these first programs, but had to be interrupted soon after. In addition, Mireille Dumas then presented La Vie à l'endroit from 1997 to 2000 on France 2. From 2000 to 2011, she presented Vie privée, vie publique broadcast on France 3. In her interviews, she estimates that the step is strongly influenced by psychoanalysis. Mireille Dumas celebrated her 25 years of television on 5 May 2007, presenting an exceptional broadcast of Vie privée, vie publique. Since September 2011, she presents the series of documentaries Signé Mireille Dumas. Source: Article "Mireille Dumas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Murray Burnett

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Murray Burnett was born in New York City in 1911. He was a high school teacher before becoming a playwright. His second wife was actress Adrienne Bayan. They met when she had a role in Hickory Street. Burnett was the uncle of documentary director Barbara Kopple. Burnett died on September 23, 1997 in New York City. Burnett also wrote the play Hickory Street, based on his experiences as a teacher, which opened on Broadway in 1944. He wrote, produced, and directed many radio plays, including the 1952 ABC series Café Istanbul with Marlene Dietrich as Mlle. Madou. This show was transformed into Time for Love which ran for 38 episodes on CBS Radio in 1953. Description above from the Wikipedia article Murray Burnett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Leo Ditrichstein

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leo Ditrichstein (January 6, 1865 – June 28, 1928) was an Austrian-American actor and playwright. Biography He was born on January 6, 1865, in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary. He was educated in Vienna and was naturalized as an American citizen in 1897. His grandfather was Hungarian novelist József Eötvös who is sometimes listed as Joseph von Etooes. He made his New York début in Die Ehre (1890). This was followed by Mr. Wilkinson's Widows, Trilby, Are You a Mason? and other plays. He was the author of numerous plays, among which are: Gossip (with Clyde Fitch, 1895); A Southern Romance (1897); The Last Appeal (1901); What's the Matter with Susan? (1904); The Ambitious Mrs. Susan (1907); The Million (from the French, 1911); The Concert (1911); Temperamental Journey (1912); The Great Lover (1915). Ditrichstein appeared in one motion picture, in a cameo as himself, in How Molly Made Good (1915). Some of the plays Ditrichstein either wrote or acted in have been made into motion pictures. He died on June 28, 1928, from heart disease at the Auersperg sanitarium in Vienna.
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Thibaut Marot

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Thibaut Marot is a French photographer, director, and videographer based in Briançon, renowned for his work on climbing, mountaineering, and Himalayan expeditions. With over ten years of experience, he has built a reputation for capturing not only landscapes and light, but also the tenacity, ambition, and poetic moments of those who push human limits in the wilderness. He has collaborated with some of the best French climbers and mountaineers. He directed and produced films for Seb Bouin, such as the "Hidden Gems" series, "ACL" (9b), and "Wolf Kingdom" (9b+). He has also documented Benjamin Védrines, notably during high-altitude alpine expeditions such as "Jannu Est" and "K2 Chasing Shadows," as well as during striking climbing documentaries like "Tissalatine - Le Rappel Du Hoggar" (2025), and "The Queen Swing," about the first female ascent by Laura Pineau and Kate Kelleghan of the legendary Triple Crown, which involves linking El Capitan, Half Dome, and Mount Watkins in a single 24-hour climb. Thibaut Marot's work combines technical mastery (managing complex lighting and isolated locations) with a keen sense of narrative: he frames climbers within their environment in such a way that the route, the rock, the ice, or the mountain itself becomes a character. His films and photographs are not simply testimonies; they convey the tension, the exposure, the scale, and the emotional arc of the climb.
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Hülya Koçyiğit

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Hülya Koçyiğit (born 12 December 1947) is a Turkish actress. A prominent female lead in the Turkish cinema, she received numerous awards at international film festivals, including the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. Altogether, she has acted in some 180 films. Koçyiğit decided to venture into cinema in 1963 after she was the runner-up in a beauty contest organized by the magazine Ses. Her debut film was the 1964 Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer), which went on to win the Golden Bear Award at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. This honour was the first of its kind ever bestowed upon a Turkish movie. Derman, a film she starred in was the first Turkish film that played in five continents. Kurbağalar, another of her famous films was the first Turkish movie that was sold to international televisions. She received the distinction of "Turkish state artist" in 1991. Koçyiğit holds the distinction of being the Turkish actress of having won the most national and international awards and is probably, the most recognised face of the Turkish silver screen. Her movies between 1965 and 1974, her golden period, constantly captivated movie audiences.
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Lisandro Duque Naranjo

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Lisandro Duque Naranjo (Sevilla, Valle del Cauca, October 30, 1943) is a Colombian film director. He served as director of the International School of Film and Television. He has collaborated with Gabriel García Márquez on several audiovisual projects, including the television miniseries María, Milagro en Roma, and Los niños invisibles. Duque Naranjo is also a columnist for the newspaper El Espectador and a professor at Universidad Central and Universidad Nacional. He served as manager of Canal Capital until December 31, 2015, when the term of Gustavo Petro as Mayor of Bogotá ended.
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Emilie Autumn

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Emily Autumn Fritzges, better known by her stage name Emilie Autumn, is an American singer-songwriter, poet and violinist. Autumn draws influence for her music the style of which she has alternatively labeled as "Victoriandustrial" and glam rock from plays, novels and history, particularly the Victorian era. Performing with her all-female backing band The Bloody Crumpets, Autumn incorporates elements of classical music, cabaret, electronica, and glam rock with theatrics, and burlesque. Growing up in Malibu, California, she began learning the violin at the age of four and left regular school five years later with the goal of becoming a world-class violinist; she practiced eight or nine hours a day and read a wide range of literature. Progressing to writing her own music, she studied under various teachers and went to Indiana University, which she left over issues regarding the relationship between classical music and the appearance of the performer. Through her own independent label Traitor Records, Autumn debuted with her classical album On a Day: Music for Violin & Continuo, followed by the release in 2003 of her album Enchant. She appeared in singer Courtney Love's backing band on her 2004 America's Sweetheart tour and returned to Europe. She released the 2006 album Opheliac with the German label Trisol Music Group. In 2007, she released Laced/Unlaced; the re-release of On a Day... appeared as Laced with songs on the electric violin as Unlaced. She later left Trisol to join New York-based The End Records in 2009 and release Opheliac in the United States, where previously it had only been available as an import. Currently she is on tour to promote her newest album Fight Like A Girl. She played the role of Painted Doll in Darren Lynn Bousman's 2012 film The Devil's Carnival.
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