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Ricardo Burgos
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Ricardo Burgos has an extensive background in theater and screen acting. His recent stage work includes performances in "3 Meses e 3 Dias" (2023/2024), "Inside the Wild Heart" (Off-Broadway, NYC, 2018), "Nunca Nade Sozinho" (Rio de Janeiro season, 2013), and "Dzi Croquettes em Bandália" (Rio de Janeiro, 2012-2015). On television and in film, he portrayed Joel in the American feature film "The Hill and The Hole" (2018), Paulo in the Brazilian feature film "Depois da Chuva" (2013), and was a key cast member as Alfonso Guerrite in the series "Rio Connection" (Sony/Globoplay). He is currently part of the main cast of the telenovela "Dona Beija."
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Thadd Turner
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Award winning producer, director, and screenwriter, Thadd won the 2010 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for the History Channel's series "Cowboys and Outlaws", he won the 2007 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for "Truce", and won the 2006 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for his original screenplay "Miracle at Sage Creek". Thadd's non-fiction book "Wild Bill Hickok: Deadwood City - End of Trail" was released in June 2001. Thadd has directed feature films "East of Yuma", "2 Years of Love", "Rodeo & Juliet", "Kids in The Yard", and Clay Walker's Top Ten music video "Jesse James". He is the husband of producer Cynthia. L. Turner and father of writer-producer Wyatt Turner.
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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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Brodie P. McCallum
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While McCallum got their start in acting (working closely with Three Sisters Theatre and Film, Blue Mountains, AUS since the age of seven), they quickly found their footing as a filmmaker following their work A Love Story (2022). McCallum's personal style is reflective of their childhood in the Blue Mountains, focusing on interhuman relationships and breaking down the components of the human condition. While McCallum's career is not yet grand, they are a promising up-and-comer in the Blue Mountain's cultural scene.
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Tony Zosherafatain
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Tony Zosherafatain began directing and producing films in 2012 after realizing that there weren’t many movies exclusively about trans people. He was the Director of I am the T, a documentary series about trans experiences around the world. Tony’s previous films include I am Isak, Finding Cedar, and You Can Call me Kye. His films have been accepted into domestic and international film festivals. Tony has contributed to the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Medium, and the Advocate, and has been featured in The New Yorker, The NY Times, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, BBC News, Vice, and Out Magazine.
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Tetsuya Hirosaki
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Born in 1971 in Oita, Japan, he entered Meiji University and was a member of the film studies club, making a number of films.
In 1996, "BLUE HEARTS", which he directed, wrote and starred in, won the WOWOW Award (for composition and screenplay) and the Winner of the Chante Prize (Audience Prize), and a member of the reporting staff at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands Producer of the 1997 National Student Film Festival. In 1998, the film 'Abashiri Bangaichi' was released in Japan. He worked as an assistant director and actor in the film "Nejishiki", written by Yoshiharu Tsuge and starring Tadanobu Asano, under the direction of the late Teruo Ishii, a genius director known for his outstanding talent. Since then, while working as an assistant director on various films, he has organised the 'BLUE DRAGON MOVIE NIGHT', an independent screening event that has screened over 200 times at a bar in Shinjuku's Golden Gai. In 2003, 'Saraba Golden Street' was screened at Shinjuku Tiny Alice to an audience of 500 people over four days, and was entered in the 2004 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2006, he directed the Akagi, Miyamoto and Taniguchi versions of Kogyo Aika Valley Boys, which was serialised in Young Magazine. He directed The Great Regretful Era.
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Eduardo Sánchez
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Eduardo Sánchez is an American filmmaker best known as the co-director, co-writer, and co-creator of The Blair Witch Project, the film widely credited with bringing found footage film into the mainstream. Released in 1999, The Blair Witch Project used improvised performances, POV camerawork, and viral internet marketing to create an unprecedented sense of realism, becoming one of the most influential and profitable independent films in cinema history. Sánchez has continued to work extensively within the horror genre, directing and writing films such as Seventh Moon, Lovely Molly, and Exists, securing his legacy as a foundational architect of modern horror cinema.
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Gary Hurst
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Gary Hurst was an actor and dancer who worked with Kate in both videos and live appearances. He started dancing in 1975, and won a scholarship to Holland where he studied in Rotterdam, then went on to tour with a troupe called Moving Being before continuing his studies in Sweden and France. Brought into the 1979 Tour Of Life by choreographer Anthony Van Laast, Hurst became a close friend and intimate of Kate and her regular dance partner alongside Stewart Avon-Arnold, with whom he later founded the Dance Theatre Of London.
Hurst contributed backing vocals on the songs Babooshka and All We Ever Look For and can be seen on the videos Live at the Hammersmith Odeon and the Kate Christmas Special. Together with Kate and Douglas McNicol, he also did TV appearances promoting the 1982 single The Dreaming, both in the UK and abroad.
He died in 1990 of complications related to AIDS in Westminster, London, England. He is mentioned by his nickname Bubba in the song Moments Of Pleasure.
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Stewart Avon-Arnold
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Having initially trained as a dancer at The London School Of Contemporary Dance, Stewart Avon Arnold has gone on to become a highly successful choreographer. He started dancing professionally in the mid-1970s. He performed with The Tubes at Knebworth and choreographed a piece that was performed at Sadler's Wells. A member of the Minority Arts Advisory Service, he later founded a dance troupe called The Dance Theatre of London with the late Gary Hurst.
He joined Kate Bush's circle for the Tour Of Life in 1979. After this, he appeared in many of Kate's music videos, including a featured role in The Line, The Cross and The Curve. Avon-Arnold also provided backing vocals on the song Sat In Your Lap.
For many years, Stewart has been constantly involved in West End Shows, pop music videos, and television series. He also finds time to teach intensive courses and master classes at leading schools throughout Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan. The breadth of his knowledge of forms of dance, together with his unique talent and sensitivity, make Stewart a very powerful creative asset to every production.
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Kenneth Thomson
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Charles Kenneth Thomson (January 7, 1899 – January 26, 1967) was an American character actor active during the silent and early sound film eras. Born in Pittsburgh, Thomson along with his wife Alden Gay were founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. The group was founded after meetings held at the Thomsons' home during 1933. During his brief twelve-year career in front of the camera, he appeared in over 60 films. After appearing in several Broadway plays during the early and mid-1920s, Thomson would make his film debut with a starring role in 1926's Risky Business. Over the next four years, he would appear in over a dozen films, in either starring or featured roles. In 1930 alone he would appear in ten films, half of which were in starring roles, such as Lawful Larceny, which also starred Bebe Daniels and Lowell Sherman (who also directed), and Reno, whose other stars were Ruth Roland and Montagu Love; the other half would see him in featured roles as in A Notorious Affair, starring Billie Dove, Basil Rathbone, and Kay Francis. During the rest of the 1930s, he would appear in numerous films, mostly in either supporting or featured roles, such as The Little Giant (1933), starring Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor, and Hop-Along Cassidy (1935), starring William Boyd; although he occasionally would have a starring role, as in opposite Harold Lloyd in 1932's Movie Crazy.
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