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Tatiana Delaunay

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Tatiana Delaunay is French by birth, Italian by blood, and from a bunch of other places, by choice. She is a comedy writer and film director. Her comedy short, Have a Nice Day Forever (2021) was awarded and shown at numerous international festivals including IndieLisboa, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Brest European Short Film Festival and Brussels Short Film Festival. Her second short film, We’re Here for You (2025) is supported by the Norwegian Film Institute. She holds a BA in Performance Practice from Central Saint Martins and an MA in Theatre specialising in directing from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. As a playwright, she has received grants from The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting and the Norwegian Arts Council. She occasionally performs and has previously worked with director Roy Andersson. She is currently developing her debut feature film, a comedy about a modern female Quixote, with the support of the Norwegian Film Institute Neo Incentive, Talent Norway and Viken Filmsenter.
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Meg Crosbie

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Meg Crosbie was born on July 11, 2003 in Charlotte, NC. She recently landed the role of Ruthie in John Green's Paper Towns starring Cara Delevigne and Nat Wolff set to come out June 2015. Meg also has a lead role in the upcoming animated feature film RoboDog (2015) featuring Ellen Page, Steve Zahn, Chris Colfer and Ron Perlman. Meg just wrapped up a film with Director Paul Weitz featuring Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner set to come out in 2015. Meg had her movie debut in Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) where she played the role of a pageant contestant.
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Armand Amar

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Armand Amar (born 1953) is a French composer, who grew up in Morocco. He won the 2010 César Award for Best Music for Le Concert (Radu Mihăileanu). Armand Amar is a French composer living in Paris. In 1968, he began playing the congas. He also practiced the tabla and the zarb in the following years. In 1976 he met South African choreographer Peter Goss, who introduced him to dance. In the subsequent years, he worked with a number of choreographers in contemporary dance. His works are focused particularly on Eastern music. He is the author of several ballets and soundtracks films such as The Trail, Days of Glory, Live and Become, The First Cry, Earth from Above, Bab'Aziz and Home. Since Amen., he has also collaborated with Costa-Gavras scoring all of his subsequent films. He founded the label Long Distance in 1994 with his partners Alain Weber and Peter Gabriel. Source: Article "Armand Amar" 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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Khalil Saeed Rizq

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Khalil Rizq, also known by full name Khalil Saeed Rizq or DRA, ( in Arabic: خليل سعيد رزق ), was born August 27, 1974, in Beirut, Lebanon. He began his career in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in Graphic Design, Programming and Web design, as a VFX Supervisor. He has delivered work on several national and international advertising projects and websites and short films. Most of his books are free as it is his way to give back to the community that helped him get started, and as a hobby that turned into a career, he has published over 45 music tracks.
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Venancio Villalobos

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Originally from Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco. December 16, 1993. He is a graduate of the BA in Cinematographic and Audiovisual Arts of the UAA, where he graduated as director and screenwriter with his short film "There is a light that always goes out" (2018), which was part of the Official Selection of the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre International Festival 2019, Macabro XVII, 7th Feratum International Film Fest, among others. Within the International Festival of Audiovisual Realization (FIRA 2019) he made his First Film "Not in the darkest of my afternoons", which is currently in the post-production process. He was recently selected to receive the PECDA in Aguascalientes for the writing of the feature film script "The days will not pass anymore". He is currently studying Screenplay at the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC).
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Arty Froushan

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Artemas Bolour-Froushan (born 16 April 1993) is an English actor. He is known for his stage work, appearing on the West End and Broadway, and his role as Jonah Breakspear in the Amazon Prime series Carnival Row (2019–2023). He appeared as Qarl Correy in House of the Dragon (2022) and was cast in the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again and the film Downton Abbey 3 (both 2025). Froushan was born in Connecticut to an English mother and an Iranian father and grew up in South London. He also has maternal French heritage. He attended St. Paul's School in Barnes. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French and German from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 2015. He went on to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), completing a foundational degree in 2017. Froushan made his professional stage debut in White Pearl at the Royal Court Theatre. He made his television debut in the 2017 BBC Two docufilm Joe Orton Laid Bare. In 2019, Froushan appeared as Gautier in the second season of the History series Knightfall. That same year, he began starring as Jonah Breakspear in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Carnival Row, a main role Froushan would play for both series. The following year, he played Nadav Topal in Strike Back: Vendetta on Sky One. Froushan joined the cast of Leopoldstadt at Wyndham's Theatre on the West End in August 2021, followed by a Broadway run in 2022 at the Longacre Theatre. He played Ser Qarl Correy, Laenor Velaryon's (John Macmillan) lover, in the first season of the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon, a Game of Thrones prequel and adaptation of George R. R. Martin's fictional history book Fire and Blood. In 2023, Froushan made his feature film debut as Majid in The Persian Version, which opened at the Sundance Film Festival. He has roles in the Disney+ miniseries Daredevil: Born Again as Buck Cashman and the film Downton Abbey 3. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arty Froushan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Amy Price-Francis

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amy Price-Francis is an actress known for being the main or one of the main characters on the television series Little Men, Tracker, Snakes and Ladders, Rumours and, especially, The Cleaner, where she has played the role of Melissa Banks. She is also known for playing the role of Cara Bowden, a ruthless and resourceful villain on the TV series 24. Originally based in Toronto and now in Los Angeles, she is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. She was born in England and raised in Canada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Price-Francis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Richard Whelan

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Richard Whelan is a highly experienced producer and 1st assistant director whose career in the film industry spans 36 years. He started in 1985 as a PA on James Cameron’s blockbuster, Aliens, and quickly moved up to the role of 2nd assistant director on acclaimed films such as Patriot Games, First Knight, the James Bond film, Goldeneye, and many more. Soon after, Richard moved into the position of 1st assistant director for films like Fever Pitch, Mama Mia: Here We Go Again, Sliding Doors, Fast & Furious; Hobbs & Shaw, Steven Spielberg’s epic mini-series Band of Brothers, George Lucas’ Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, and Amazon Prime’s Citadel (release 2022). Richard was associate producer of Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger and co-founder of the production company Eight Wonder Pictures. He is producing a feature film based on the highly popular British series, The Professionals, and the film The Owl. Information above via their homepage.
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Hosaku Yasui

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Hosaku Yasui (安井 豊作, Yasui Hōsaku), born in 1960 in Tokyo, is a Japanese film critic and director, also known by the name Yutaka Yasui (安井 豊, Yasui Yutaka). He graduated from Hosei University and has been deeply involved in Japan's independent and experimental film scene. He has served as a curator at the Athénée Français Cultural Center, editorial board member of Cahiers du Cinéma Japon, and founding secretary-general of the Film School of Tokyo (映画美学校). In 2011, he published the book Shine Toride Enjōsu (The Cine Fortress Burns), which was reviewed in Eiga Geijutsu, Tokyo Shimbun, and Shūkan Dokushojin. As a filmmaker, he directed the feature film Rocks Off (2011), starring musician Keiji Haino, which captures the demolition of Hosei University's student hall. He also appeared as an actor in The Great Illusion (大いなる幻影, 1999) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa credited under the name Yutaka Yasui.
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