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Joseph Moreland

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Even as a young man growing up in historic Grafton, WV, Joseph Moreland showed a passion and talent for acting. His first "major" role was Oliver Hix, one of the Barbershop Quartet members in "Music Man" as a Junior in High School. Now, as a SAG-Eligible actor with an extensive list of IMDb TV and film credits (and growing), several of which are now streaming, such as "Casting Stones", "I Can't Breathe (God Forgive Them)", "Between Mercy and Me", "Alan and the Rulers of the Air", "One Cop's Journey", "Butterfly (Short)", and "Cobra Kai", Joseph has taken the passion that started on the stage in high school to the next level. Some of those films have won awards in national and international film festivals. Joseph himself won Best Villain for his portrayal of Sgt. Kalmus in "I Can't Breathe (God Forgive Them)". Showing he's capable of portraying a wide range of characters, Joseph was a lead in "Mix Tape" as a less-than devoted husband and father, shot in Los Angeles, the main antagonist preacher in "Casting Stones", and the head doctor in "In God's Time". His love of the stage has resulted in numerous roles at several stage companies in Cincinnati, including his recent portrayals of Sheriff Schmid in Footligher's "Bonnie and Clyde", and as Bill Austin in Loveland Stage Company's "Mamma Mia". Performing in Cincinnati Music Theater's jazz show, "Singables and Swingables", he was able to display his love a Jazz as a principal singer. Always striving to improve his acting skills, Joseph has studied under private acting coaches in New York, Los Angeles and enjoys group acting sessions at Cincinnati Actor's Studio. Joseph has studied improv with Unbridled Citizens Brigade, Detroit Creativity Project and Houde School of Acting. He loves the outdoors and has been blessed to have raised 4 wonderful children with his wife, Sandy
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Steven Poster

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Steven Barry Poster, A.S.C, I.C.G. (born 1 March 1944) is an American cinematographer and photographer who is the former President of the International Cinematographers Guild. He is best known for his collaborations with Richard Kelly, including the director's 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko. Poster began his career as a creative assistant at 'The Film Group,' a commercial film production company based in Chicago, Illinois. After being promoted to director of photography due to his skill at lighting, he met Herschell Gordon Lewis and worked with him in various crew positions on a total of three films. Poster founded a production company with director Michael Mann and served as the cinematographer on numerous industrial and education films. He served as the second-unit director of photography on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Poster joined the American Society of Cinematographers in 1987, relocating to Hollywood in the process. He shot the iconic music video to Madonna's "Like a Prayer", as well as commercials directed by Ridley Scott and Kinka Usher. In 1988, he was nominated for the ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Releases for his work on Someone to Watch Over Me. Poster served as the President of the ASC between 2002-2003. In 2006, he received an Emmy nomination for Mrs. Harris. That same year, he was elected as the National President of the International Cinematographers Guild, a position he held until 2019. Source: Article "Steven Poster" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Kimberly Edelson

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Kimberly Edelson is a filmmaker and cinematographer who blends intuition with disciplined technique to create evocative, story-driven imagery. Guided by a deep sensitivity to light, composition, and movement, she approaches each frame with both emotional resonance and visual intent. She earned her B.F.A. in Film from Syracuse University in 2025 and studied cinematography at the prestigious Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic, during the spring of 2024. Her education gave her a solid technical foundation, which she continues to build on through practice and exploration. In 2025, Kimberly was nominated for the George Spiro Dibie ASC Student Heritage Award. Her cinematography was awarded Best Cinematography by the Indian Independent Film Festival. Her work has also screened at the Kookai International Film Festival, Indie Shorts Mag Film Festival, and Syracuse University’s New Filmmakers Showcase. In 2024, she received a SOURCE Fellowship from Syracuse University to fund her senior thesis film, Rays. Now based in Los Angeles, she works as a freelance filmmaker in the camera department. She continually sharpens her instincts while embracing the craft’s technical demands. She believes that cinematography is an art that bypasses words to speak directly to the subconscious. Her goal is always to distill the essence of a story into a single, unforgettable frame.
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Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

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Margrethe II (Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is Queen of Denmark. Having reigned as Denmark's monarch for over 50 years, she is the world's only current queen regnant and the longest-serving current female head of state. Born into the House of Glücksburg, a cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg, Margrethe is the eldest child of King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid. She became heir presumptive to her father in 1953, when a constitutional amendment allowed women to inherit the throne. Margrethe succeeded her father upon his death on 14 January 1972. On her accession, she became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margrethe I, ruler of the Scandinavian kingdoms in 1376–1412 during the Kalmar Union. In 1967, she married Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, with whom she had two sons: Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim. Margrethe is known for her strong archaeological passion and has participated in several excavations, including in Italy, Egypt, Denmark and South America. She shared this interest with her grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, with whom she spent some time unearthing artefacts near Etruria in 1962. As of 2023, Margrethe has, as sovereign, received 42 official state visits and she has undertaken 55 foreign state visits herself. She and the royal family have made several other foreign visits. Support for the monarchy in Denmark has been and remains consistently high at around 82%, as does Margrethe's personal popularity. Princess Margrethe was born 16 April 1940 at Frederik VIII's Palace, in her parents' residence at the Amalienborg palace complex, the principal residence of the Danish royal family in the district of Frederiksstaden in central Copenhagen. She was the first child of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess (later King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid). Her father was the elder son of the then-reigning King Christian X, while her mother was the only daughter of the Crown Prince of Sweden (later King Gustaf VI Adolf). Her birth took place just one week after Nazi Germany's invasion of Denmark on 9 April 1940. Margrethe was baptised on 14 May in the Holmen Church in Copenhagen. The Princess's godparents were King Christian X (paternal grandfather); Hereditary Prince Knud (paternal uncle); Prince Axel (her paternal grandfather's first cousin); King Gustaf V of Sweden (maternal great-grandfather); Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (maternal grandfather); Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (her maternal uncle); and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (maternal great-grandfather). She was named Margrethe after her late maternal grandmother, Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden, Alexandrine after her paternal grandmother, Queen Alexandrine, and Ingrid after her mother. Since her paternal grandfather was also the King of Iceland, she was given the Icelandic name Þórhildur. When Margrethe was four years old, in 1944, her younger sister Princess Benedikte was born. Princess Benedikte later married Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and lives some of the time in Germany. Her second sister, Princess Anne-Marie, was born in 1946. Anne-Marie later married King Constantine II of the Hellenes and currently lives in Greece. ... Source: Article "Margrethe II" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Tallapaka Annamacharya

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Tallapaka Annamacharya (Telugu: తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య, romanized: taḷḷapāka annamācārya), also popularly known as Annamayya, was a musician, composer, and a Hindu saint. He is the earliest known Indian musician to compose songs called samkirtanas. His devotional samkirtanas were in the praise of Venkateswara, a form of Vishnu.Annamayya is said to have composed as many as 32,000 samkirtanas (songs) on the praise of Venkateswara of which only about 12,000 are available today.
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Fernando Meirelles

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Fernando Ferreira Meirelles (Brazilian Portuguese:[feʁˈnɐ̃du mejˈɾɛlis]; born 9 November 1955) is a Brazilian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for co-directing the film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films, which received international critical acclaim. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for his work in the film. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for The Constant Gardener, which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rachel Weisz. He also directed the 2008 adaptation of José Saramago's novel Blindness and the 2011 film 360. In 2019, Meirelles directed The Two Popes for Netflix. In television, Meirelles directed and produced the HBO original series Joint Venture in Brazil. In 2024, he led the directing work for the crime series Sugar and the historical miniseries The Sympathizer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fernando Meirelles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Billy Hulting

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Billy Hulting is a musician, festival director, producer, engineer, adventurer and activist. There is so much to do in this life I like to try everything! Musician – as a hand percussionist and vibe player I was a touring musician for 25 years having played with Maynard Ferguson, Nia Peeples, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow, Lou Rawls, The Manhattan Transfer, Patti Labelle, The Rippingtons, Luci Arnaz, and Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa (with which we won a Grammy)! Currently I do mostly studio work and play live around L.A.. Activism – my baby is vegfest Los Angeles which was WorldFest for 15 years.
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Joaquin Foster

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Joaquin Foster (Jan 11th 2006) got interested in the creative process from a young age, spending a large portion of his time either on set with his wardrobe stylist mother or in his father's family restaurant. From before he could write, Joaquin would come up with stories and dictate them to his family. Once he learned to spell, albeit poorly, he spent the bulk of his free time trying to write short stories and fantasy novels. This passion for storytelling shifted gears during his sophomore year of high school when he was introduced to an AFI-trained screenwriter (who has chosen to remain nameless) that showed him the ropes of the film industry, and later encouraged him to attend the Art Center College Of Design. Since then, Joaquin's sole ambition has been writing and directing for film and television in order to make entertaining and meaningful art. Upon turning eighteen, he got the words "Film First" tattooed on his wrist to emphasize his dedication to the craft. In a world consumed by mindless content and artificiality, Joaquin hopes to make movies that inspire discussion, bring people together, and have a meaningful impact on those who see it, all the while being entertaining.
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Rachel Portman

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Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE (born 11 December 1960) is an English composer who is best known for scoring films. Portman's career in music began with writing music for drama in BBC and Channel 4 films such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Mike Leigh's Four Days in July and Jim Henson's Storyteller series. Since then, Portman has written over 100 scores for film, television and theatre. Her other works include a children's opera, The Little Prince (which was later adapted for television) and Little House on the Prairie, a musical based upon the Laura Ingalls Wilder books Little House on the Prairie (2008). Portman was commissioned to write a piece of choral music for the BBC Proms series in August 2007 called The Water Diviner's Tale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel Portman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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