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António Campos
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António Campos (29 May 1922 – 8 March 1999) was one of the pioneer filmmakers of visual anthropology in Portugal. Mainly using pure documentary techniques, he shot ethnographic films and tried docufiction. As well as in fictional films, he used the methods of direct cinema to portray the life of ancient human communities (ethnofiction) of his country.
He started making films at the beginning of the sixties, at the same time as John Marshall (US) and Michel Brault (Canada). Without knowing much about Jean Rouch, he followed his steps in an original way.
He integrated a troupe of theater amateurs and worked at a state department office in Leiria. He got a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1961, where he worked between 1970 and 1976, to study cinema in London. He took part in the 20th Century Film Festival, in Kracow, Poland. He was the delegate in Portugal for the International Federation of Art Film and a member of the International Union of Independent Filmmakers (UNICI).
He started making films as an amateur. He shot ethnographic films with 16 mm light cameras and with no scientific purposes, like some of his Portuguese fellows, such as António Reis, Ricardo Costa or Pedro Costa, this one using small mini DV cameras, some years later. After the Carnation Revolution, he directed some theatrical fictional features in 35 mm, all with a strong anthropologic content. He was one of the representatives of the Portuguese Cinema Novo (or Novo Cinema), inspired by the French New Wave.
His film Gente da Praia da Vieira (People of Praia da Vieira), 1976, is, together with Trás-os-Montes, by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, and with Mau Tempo, Marés e Mudança (Changing Tides), by Ricardo Costa, one of the first docufictions of Portuguese cinema. Shot on the same year, these films, in the same genre, are preceded by Acto da Primavera (Act of Spring), 1962, by Manoel de Oliveira, and Ala-Arriba!, 1948, by José Leitão de Barros, a contemporary to Robert Flaherty. These films may also be classified as ethnofictions.
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Jourdy Pranata
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Jourdy Pranata (born January 2, 1993) is an Indonesian actor and presenter.
Jourdy Pranata plunged into the world of acting in 2018 by starring in his first web series entitled LINE Indonesia's Last Ramadan, which aired on YouTube on 18 May 2018. In 2019 he plunged into the world of film by being involved in a short film project entitled Suburbia which was produced by a film student at Bina Nusantara University and successfully entered the community screen selection at the 14th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. In the same year he was given the opportunity to play a role in his first feature film entitled Habibie & Ainun 3 playing the character Bambang.
Jourdy is widely known for his role in the web series produced by MVP Entertainment entitled I Love You Silly which airs on WeTV & Iflix on June 18, 2021.
In 2021, Jourdy plunged into the world of singing by filling in one of the soundtracks in the film Kukira Kau Rumah entitled "Rain" written by Umay Shahab under the auspices of the Sinemaku Pictures label. This song is also used as the soundtrack of I Love You Silly. In the same year, he also debuted as the main character in the films One Night Stand and Kukira Kau Rumah.
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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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Mohamed Kelany
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An Egyptian actor since his debut in the clip "Akid in Egypt" caught the attention of him, because he enjoyed a wonderful voice and a grisly face that helped him win the hearts of people quickly, Mohamed Kilani managed to put his fingerprint among young singers with a number of songs, and last year Kilani participated the artist Khaled Nabawi And the artist Haifa Wehbe Vibe in the series "Maryam" and the viewers liked it, with the director Shadi Fakhrani, through the "Wannous" series the role of Nabil, starring the artist Yahya Al Fakhrani.
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Zac Hanson
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Zachary Walker Hanson was born on October 22, 1985 in Arlington, Virginia and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the youngest of the three brothers in Hanson, and was six when the band started in 1992. He plays drums, percussion, piano, guitar and also sings backup and lead vocals in the band. Zac, at age 12 years and 126 days, is the fourth youngest Grammy nominee of all time. He holds the title of youngest songwriter nominated for a Grammy Award (same year).
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Patrick Dempsey
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Patrick Galen Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is an American actor and race car driver. He is best known for his role as neurosurgeon Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy. He had early success as an actor, starring in a number of films in the 1980s, including Can't Buy Me Love (1987) and Loverboy (1989).
In the 1990s, he mostly appeared in smaller roles in film, such as Outbreak (1995) and television. Dempsey was also in Scream 3 (2000) where he played the role of Detective Mark Kincaid.
He was successful in landing a lead role in Sweet Home Alabama (2002), a surprise box office hit. He has since starred in other films, including Brother Bear 2 (2006), Enchanted (2007), Made of Honor (2008), Valentine's Day (2010), Flypaper (2011), Freedom Writers (2007), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016).
Dempsey, who maintains a sports car and vintage car collection, also enjoys auto racing in his spare time. He has competed in pro-am events such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Rolex 24 at Daytona sports car race, and Ensenada SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race. Prior to the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans, Dempsey declared that he would "walk away" from acting if he could and dedicate himself full-time to motorsports.
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Kenny Smith
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Kenny Smith is a long-time member of TNT’s Inside the NBA studio show. While Smith has been an analyst, Inside the NBA has won four Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Studio Show – Daily. This year, Smith received a Sports Emmy nomination for Best Analyst. Smith makes regular appearances on NBA TV and has served as analyst for Turner Sports and CBS Sports’ combined coverage of the NCAA March Madness Division I Men’s Basketball Championship since 2011. Smith is also the founder of The Jet Academy, the virtual live basketball camp.
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Jessica Cameron
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Actress Jessica Cameron was born and raised in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada and moved to Toronto to initially study fashion at Ryerson University. After finishing her degree, she moved to Ohio in order to work as a fashion designer, though after taking an acting class, and being bitten hard by that bug, Cameron decided to make acting her full-time career.
Relocating to Hollywood, CA, Cameron In the last few years has been cast in more than fifty projects including music videos, TV shows and feature films, and n 2010 won an industry award for being a Rising Movie Star. Some of her favorite recent performances include playing Princess Areola in the film Potpourri directed by Elliot Diviney, and her turn in the feature Mr. Hush, in which she starred alongside horror icon Steven Geoffreys. She also had the chance to work with legendary director Jim Wynorski on the Syfy channel film "Camel Spiders", and with established horror director Jeff Burr on Resurrection. Cameron was also thrilled to play screen legend Marilyn Monroe in The Black Dahlia Haunting, having been a fan of the Hollywood icon for many years.
2013 was the first year in which Cameron stepped behind the camera to direct and produce Truth Or Dare, a torture film that she co-wrote. Truth Or Dare would screen nearly 50 times all over the world and win 34 awards. Cameron would direct several short films in 2013 including a segment for a Blood Drive PSA. She would produce 2 more feature films in 2015 (Utero and Save Yourself) before embarking on her most ambitious project yet - filming 3 movies while traveling across the USA in a motor home with a small group of crew and cast members. The team shot 2 narrative features (Lilith and Mania) and the documentary surrounding the process called Kill The Production Assistant. Mania would mark Cameron's 2nd time directing a feature film. Mania would win 28 awards and screen at over 37 festivals. Her third film, An Ending, is in post production in 2019.
Jessica Cameron is still a busy working actress and film maker today, some of her notable credits includes a part in director Steven C. Miller's fan-favorite horror feature Silent Night, the classic holiday horror film All Through the House, the gore filled American Guinea Pig : Song of Solomon, the cult classic The Sleeper, the action packed Run Like Hell and the documentary Haunters in which she speaks about her love for extreme haunts.
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Angelina Muniz
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Angelina Maria Muniz Zagari (born March 21, 1955 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress.
Angelina is considered one of the greatest sex symbols of the 1980s, when she appeared naked in films such as The Love Bug and the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine, in which she appeared three times (in July 1980, March 1982 and January 1985) .
She had a brief experience as a radio announcer, presenting, during the 1990s, an MPB program on the defunct Musical FM radio in São Paulo.
Angelina is the sister of the actress Rosana Muniz, and she studied law at Cândido Mendes University in Ipanema.
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Adeyto
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Adeyto (アデイト in Japanese, also known as Adeyto Rex Angeli and Laura Windrath, December 3, 1976) is a French singer-songwriter, actress, photographer, university professor and fashion designer based in Japan.
Born in Strasbourg to a German father and a French mother, she entered the acting industry at the age of 8. In 1998 she moved to Japan where she continued her acting career, appearing in Japanese TV series, movies and variety shows. She played Marilyn Monroe in the 2003 movie Get Up.
She has also worked as a photographer and cinematographer behind the camera, being chosen in 2012 by producer Ridley Scott to be co-director and cinematographer for the film Japan in a Day.
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