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George C. Stoney
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George Cashel Stoney (July 1, 1916 – July 12, 2012) was a pioneering American documentary filmmaker, educator, and a foundational figure in the development of public-access television, often regarded as its "father." Stoney's documentary films, including Palmour Street, A Study of Family Life (1949), All My Babies (1953), How the Myth Was Made (1979), and The Uprising of '34 (1995), explored social issues with a focus on the human condition and the working class. All My Babies, a powerful documentary about childbirth and midwifery in the rural South, was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2002 for its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance. As a teacher and mentor, Stoney helped shape future generations of filmmakers, and his contributions to the field were celebrated in the 1999 Festschrift volume of the journal Wide Angle. His legacy continues to influence documentary filmmaking and the role of media in public life.
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James A. Sims
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James A. Sims is a filmmaker in Los Angeles who believes that compelling visuals are a key component in amplifying a great story. As a father of four children, James pursues stories that encourage and inspire fatherhood in the African-American community.
James studied film at the University of Washington as a student-athlete, competing in both football and track and field. After graduating he joined the New York Giants as a running back, then eventually moved to Los Angeles to begin his entertainment career working as a production assistant on “America’s Funniest Videos.”
James has directed various music videos and short films, supporting his appointment to the 2018 Sony Pictures Diverse Directors program. Most recently, he was a contributing animator on the NAACP Image Award and Peabody Award–nominated short film, “Cops And Robbers,” produced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nicat Əli
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Nijat Habibov, son of Ali, was born on August 14, 1989, in Baku. In 2002 he entered the tar class of the music school number 23. In 2005 he became a laureate of the Haji Mammadov Music Festival. In 2005 he joined the Music College (Asaf Zeynalli) at the Azerbaijan State National Conservatory. In 2009, he graduated with honors and entered the Musical Theater Acting Faculty of the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Art. In 2013, he graduated with an honorary degree and joined the Master. During his studies at the university, he made several films and serials. He was playing in the role of "Mirza Fatali Akhundov's adolescence" in "Ambassadors of the morning," "Chingiz" in "Most ordinary surname," "Rovshan" in "Mystery" series, "Etibar" in "Lines" series, "Doctor" at "Poor fellow, rich girl" Turkish tv series produced by MINT production company of Turkey. Among them are: "School Girl," "Coincidence," "A part of life," "Brawler." He has also worked as an actor at the Plastic Drama Studios, created by Honored Artist Parviz Mammadrzayev since 2011. During her work in the theater, she played "My," "Knee and Musician," "Intervention," "Glader Battles," "Shah Ismail Khatai." In 2012, he won the 3rd place at the Youth Festival related to the "Ecology."
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Dr. Judy Ho
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Dr. Judy Ho (also known as Dr. Judy, born June 12, 1979) is a (dual citizen) Taiwanese-American triple board-certified and licensed clinical and forensic neuropsychologist, media personality, motivational speaker, clinical researcher, and published author. She co-hosted Season 12 of The Doctors, preceded by hosting the CBS syndicated talk show Face The Truth (2018) alongside Vivica Fox, and was a recurring panelist (over 200 episodes) on The Dr. Drew Show (2013-2016).
She appears on national television and radio broadcasts as a psychology expert, panelist, narrator, and host. She hosts the podcast SuperCharged Life with Dr. Judy
She maintains a private practice based in Los Angeles, CA, while working as a tenured associate professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, Graduate School of Education and Psychology (since 2010).
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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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René Simard
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René Claude Simard, CM CQ, (born February 28, 1961) is a pop singer from Quebec. He is the older brother of Nathalie Simard.
Simard was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec.
In 1974, René Simard was awarded the Grand Prix by Frank Sinatra at the annual Tokyo Music Festival. In Canada, he hosted the CBC Television series, The René Simard Show, from 1977 to 1979.
Simard is also an occasional actor. He played the henchman Stu in the 1995 film Kids of the Round Table.
Between 2006 and 2008, he hosted the television series L'heure de gloire on Radio-Canada.
Simard was formerly managed by Guy Cloutier as well as his sister Nathalie. In 2004, Cloutier was convicted of sexually assaulting Nathalie when she was a child. Michel Vastel's 2005 book on the case, Briser le silence (Breaking the Silence), alleged that René co-operated with Cloutier in trying to hide the assaults. In 2005, Simard made a public statement in which he denied this.
In 1999 he briefly played the role of The Phantom in the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera (April to May 23, 1999). He was succeeded by Paul Stanley.
Simard has been married to TV hostess Marie-Josée Taillefer since 1987.
In 2014, Simard was named a Member of the Order of Canada "or his contributions to the development of Quebec culture as a performer, host and director."
Source: Article "René Simard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Andrés Orozco-Estrada
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Andrés Orozco-Estrada is a Colombian violinist and conductor born in Medellín. In 1997, he moved to Vienna, Austria where he was accepted into the conducting class of Uroš Lajovic at the renowned Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. He first conducted the Tonkunstler Orchestra for a concert at the Vienna Musikverein on June 7, 2004. He later held the position of Music Director of the Tonkunstler Orchestra from 2009 to June 2015. First guest-conducting the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi (Basque National Orchestra) in May 2007, he was Principal Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi from 2009 to June 2013. After guest-conducting the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony) in 2009, he held the position of Principal Conductor from September 2014 to July 2021. From 2014 to 2022, he was the Music Director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. In September 2015, he also took up the position of Principal Guest Conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Years after his guest-conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 2006 and his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic in autumn 2010, he held the Chief Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra from 2020 to 2022. After collaborating with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai in May 2022, he was appointed principal conductor of the Rai Orchestra for the 23/24 season. He began teaching orchestral conducting at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts in October 2022. From the 25/26 season, he will take up the position of Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) of the city of Cologne.
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Beau Sia
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Beau Sia is a Tony Award-winning slam poet. Born to Chinese immigrants from the Philippines in Ohio and raised in Oklahoma City, he moved to New York City for college, earning a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In New York, he began performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, which led to his joining the 1996 Nuyorican National Poetry Slam team and being featured in the influential slam poetry documentary SlamNation. Sia is a two-time National Poetry Slam champion and the author of Well Played (2020), The Undisputed Greatest Writer of All Time (2010), and A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge (1998), a satiric response to Jewel’s poetry collection A Night Without Armor (1999). Sia’s poetry and performances often challenge Asian American stereotypes.
Sia’s work has been anthologized in How to Make a Living as a Poet (2005), Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (2000), and Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry (1998), among other collections. He has appeared in films, including Rachel Getting Married (2008), Hitch (2005), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004), and appeared on Broadway in Def Poetry Jam (2003), for which he won a Tony Award. Sia’s work has been covered by publications including Salon.com and the New York Daily News. He has performed all over the world and facilitated workshops for Urban Word NYC and Youth Speaks. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Laurine Estrade
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Born in Quimper in 1985, Laurine Estrade studied cinema in Rennes and completed her university studies in Paris, obtaining a professional Master's degree in cinema at La Sorbonne in 2008. Laurine works as a scriptwriter on documentary and fiction projects. In 2013, Laurine directed L'Enfant dans l'arbre, a behind-the-scenes documentary set in a Perpignan school, produced by Triptyque Films and France Télévisions. It was during this shoot that she met Ossana, who became the main character in her second documentary: Ossana, la vie devant toi, produced by Les Films d'Ici and France Télévisions.
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Philippe Druillet
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Philippe Druillet (born 28 June 1944) is a French comics artist and creator, and an innovator in visual design.
Druillet was born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France but spent his youth in Spain, returning to France in 1952 after the death of his father. A science fiction and comics fan, Philippe worked as a photographer after graduating from high school, drawing only for his own pleasure.
His first published series was his version of Michael Moorcock's Elric stories in a short-lived magazine. His first book appeared in 1966, entitled Le Mystère des abîmes (The Mystery of the Abyss). It introduced his recurring hero Lone Sloane and played on science-fiction themes partially inspired by his favourite writers, H. P. Lovecraft and A.E. van Vogt. Later Druillet created book covers for republications of Lovecraft's work, as well as numerous movie posters.
After Druillet became a regular contributor to the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote in 1970, his Lone Sloane saga grew steadily more flamboyant, as he pursued innovations including bold page designs and computer-generated images. His backdrops of gigantic structures inspired by Art Nouveau, Indian temples and Gothic cathedrals earned him the nickname of "space architect". Six tales about Sloane's exploits were collected in Les six voyages de Lone Sloane in 1972, hailed by many as his masterpiece, and Sloane was again the hero of the graphic novel Délirius (1973), written by Jacques Lob. In 1973, Druillet also produced the Moorcock's Elric-inspired Yragaël for Pilote, and Vuzz for the magazine Phénix
In 1975 Druillet joined Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Bernard Farkas and Moebius to form the publishing house Les Humanoïdes Associés, and the magazine Métal Hurlant. This was to be a vehicle for his finest stories, and showcased a steady evolution in his graphical skills. His series Lone Sloane and Vuzz continued, and other stories of this period include La Nuit, and Nosferatu. In 1980 Druillet produced Salammbô, a comic-book trilogy based upon Flaubert's proto-heroic fantasy novel Salammbô.
Outside his work as a cartoonist and illustrator, Druillet has also been active in architecture, rock opera, painting, sculpture and digital art. He worked as a designer on the film, Sorcerer directed by William Friedkin in 1976. He collaborated on Rolf Liebermann's Wagner Space Opera in the Opera de Paris in the late '70s to early '80s, and founded the Space Art Création in 1984. More recently he created the artwork and designed large parts of the background of the 2005 TV miniseries remake Les Rois maudits.
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