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Shicong Zhu

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Shicong Zhu is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Beijing. Born and raised in Beijing, Shicong came to America to pursue a college degree in California. After working as a fine art photographer for five years and having obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, she attended USC School of Cinematic Arts and received her M.F.A. degree in Film & Television Production. During her time in the film school, Shicong made a music video and several short films featuring a magical realism style, centering the feminine universal experience and human condition. "My Personal Ghost Story," a film focused on the inner life of a domestic violence survivor, was officially selected by Los Angeles Script and Film Festival and Horror Hotel Film Festival. "Anchor Baby," following a day in the life of a pregnant illegal immigrant working in a LA nail salon, received the honor of official selection by Beverly Hills International Film Festival, and screened at TCL Chinese Theater. She went back to China and shot her thesis film "Snake Trail" and recently wrapped up post-production work. She has another short film in production at the moment called "The Perfect Human," focused on exploring facial dysmorphia as a psychological condition in young women and how that affects their love life. She is also an honoree and recipient of the 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. Working with the foundation, she is sponsored to direct her original narrative script centering A.I. and machine learning technology, exploring its ethical implications as well as emotional impact on people.
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Siddharth Chandekar

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Siddharth Chandekar is an Indian film actor. He is known for his work in Marathi cinema. At the age of 19 he made his debut in Marathi cinema with Avdhoot Gupte's 2010 political drama movie Zenda. Siddharth Chandekar is a well-known name in Marathi industry. Siddharth started his acting career in 2007 with Hindi film ‘Hamne Jeena Sikh Liya’. However, Siddharth made his debut in Marathi with popular TV serial Agnihotra, later he appeared in Avadhoot Gupte’s ‘Zenda’. Siddharth is best known for his role Ani in recent blockbuster film Classmates. In 2014 he starred as a lead in Ajay Naik's Baware Prem He opposite Urmila Kanitkar. He then appeared in Aditya Sarpotdar's 2015 blockbuster movie Classmates. Siddharth was seen opposite debutant Rutuja Shinde in romantic comedy film Online Binline. He is set to appear in different films like Vazandar co-starring Sai Tamhankar and Priya Bapat to be directed by Sachin Kundalkar, Lost and Found along with Spruha Joshi and Pindadan. Siddhath's next film Lost and Found was released on 29 july. The film produced by Golden Gate Motion Pictures is a love story and has Siddharth Chandekar as the male lead.in 2017 Siddhartha's bus stop movie was released. His upcoming film will be Gulabjamun which is directed by national award winner director Sachin Kundalkar. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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PJ Fishwick

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PJ Fishwick is a Commercial, Feature Film and Web Producer based in Chicago. PJ studied Film, Video and Media studies at Western Michigan University and Charles University in the Czech Republic. He has produced three independent features, most recently Dig Two Graves which took part in the IFP Emerging Narrative and Rough Cut labs. Dig Two Graves is currently playing film festivals. PJ’s comedy web work includes content for Above Average, Rodrigo Quintez: Quality Childrens Entertainer and Teachers: A Web Series which has been picked up by TV Land for its first season. PJ is currently the Producer at the Chicago based commercial production company Cap Gun Collective. Cap Gun Collective is comprised of two distinct platforms. The first, a director led, live action, commercial production company, and the second, Cap Gun TV, a hybrid development studio / production company for original content.
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Noboru Iwamura

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Noboru Iwamura (岩村 昇, Iwamura Noboru, May 26, 1927 – November 27, 2005) was a Japanese biologist, medical doctor and professor of medicine. He was the only survivor, amongst eighty high school classmates, of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing. This experience led him to resolve to live his life for others. Under the UMN program, Iwamura was the first Japanese volunteer to arrive in Nepal, a nation struck with a pandemic of tuberculosis. He spent 22 years helping those living in deprivation and his efforts laid the foundation for the establishment of multiple medical facilities around the area. Back in Japan, Iwamura founded the Peace, Health, and Human Development Foundation in 1980, in an effort to provide technical training to grassroots leaders from Nepal and Southeast Asia. He went on to establish the International Human Resources Institute in 1985, as a means of sponsorship for rural workers to earn master's degrees in Community Development. Dr. Iwamura was awarded the 1993 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding in recognition of his life's calling. Iwamura died from leukemia in 2005. In 1998, the Dr. Iwamura Memorial Hospital and Research Center was established to carry on his name in Bhaktapur.
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Mahathi S.

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Mahathi is a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in several Indian languages. Mahathi was born in Chennai to a family of Carnatic musicians. Her maternal great grandfather, Pazhamaneri Swaminatha Iyer, was a Carnatic vocalist and recipient of the Sangeetha Kalanidhi title. Her mother, Vasanthi Sekhar, was a flautist, while her father, Thiruvaiyaru Sekar was a Carnatic vocalist and disciple of M. Balamuralikrishna. Mahathi moved to Kerala as a toddler, and did her schooling Hari Sri Vidya Nidhi School, Trichur and Sacred Heart Convent, Cochin. She graduated in Chennai from Meenakshi College, Kodambakkam with English literature as her main stream. Mahathi married a surgeon in 2008; the couple have a child.
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Karel Tuytschaever

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Karel Tuytschaever (°1985) graduates from the Royal Conservatory Antwerp in the Drama, an acting education led by Dora van der Groen. A great importance to him is the interaction between his executive work as a performer, his own research traject and work as a maker and his professorship. His background in drama and dance as well play a key role in this triangle. As an actor Karel contributed to plays at theatre houses such as De Tijd, Toneelhuis, Schauspielhaus Wien, HETPALEIS, Detheatermaker, Lab. Troubleyn/Jan Fabre, De Parade, Kaaitheater, Barre Weldaad, Frascati, HertogsHaest and Over het ij. On tv he appears in series such as Witse, Zone stad, Aspe, Binnenstebuiten, Crimi Clowns, Familie, De Vijfhoek, De Kroongetuigen, Professor T, Code 37, Tom & Harry, Tytgat chocolat, Zie mij graag and De Ridder. He plays in films like Rotkop, Do you know what love is and De handel in emotionele goederen. In September 2015 BARRY is founded based on the necessity to create an environment where Karel’s hybrid work can be supported, created an spread. Since 2009 Karel is a regular instructor at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp. He mentors, coaches in acting for the dance department and motion for all drama students. From 2015 on, he started as coordinator of the yearly interdisciplinary research week between all departments of the School of Arts, Common ground. As a core member, he is part of the Erasmus+ research project Rethinking bodies: the tranferable skills of the dance artist (2014 - 2017), which was initiated with the partners in higher education Fontys (Tilburg), Duncan Centre Conservatory (Prague) and NSCD (Leeds). This research redefines the vision of the body in contemporary dance, with themes as Inclusive Dance and Movement practice and Re-designing spaces. As a researcher, he is also involved in a interdisciplinary project with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Growinggifs. Bodies are registered and placed in the shared space between analog and digital, craft and high-tech, with new visuals as output. Karel is regularly solicited as a coach and has hosted workshops and masterclasses organized by Toneelhuis, HETPALEIS, KunstZ, theatre studio Nest, OPENDOEK, University of Antwerp and the Amsterdam School of the Arts.
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Tinoco

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José Salvador Perez, better known as Tinoco (Botucatu, November 19, 1920 – São Paulo, May 4, 2012), was the country artist who remained in activity the longest (82 years). He died at age 91 of respiratory failure. He was laid to rest in the Quarta Parada cemetery, in the city of São Paulo and buried in the Vila Alpina cemetery, in the same city. Tonico & Tinoco was a Brazilian country duo, considered one of the most important duos in the history of Brazilian music. In their 64-year career, Tonico and Tinoco made almost 1,000 recordings, divided into 83 discs. The duo is one of the sales record holders in Brazil and, according to different sources, their total sales vary between 20 million and 50 million records. The duo performed around 40,000 performances in their entire career.
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Barry Sullivan

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Barry Sullivan (August 29, 1912 – June 6, 1994) was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s. Born in New York City, Sullivan fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football. During the later Depression years, Sullivan was told that because of his 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m) stature and rugged good looks he could "make money" simply standing on a Broadway stage. This began a successful career on Broadway, movies and television. One of Sullivan's most memorable roles was playing a movie director in The Bad and the Beautiful opposite Kirk Douglas. Sullivan toured the US with Bette Davis in theatrical readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg and starred opposite her in the 1951 film Payment on Demand. In 1950, Sullivan appeared in the film A Life of Her Own and replaced Vincent Price in the role of Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar on the NBC Radio show The Saint. Unfortunately, Sullivan only lasted two episodes before the show was cancelled, and then resurrected five weeks later with Vincent Price once again playing the starring role. Sullivan's first starring TV show was a syndicated adaptation of the radio series The Man Called X for Ziv Television in 1956-1957, as secret agent Ken Thurston, the role Herbert Marshall originally portrayed before the microphone. In the 1957-1958 season, Sullivan starred in the adventure/drama television series Harbormaster. He played a commercial ship's captain, David Scott, and Paul Burke played his partner, Jeff Kittridge, in five episodes of the series, which aired first on CBS and then ABC under the revised title Adventure at Scott Island. In 1960, Sullivan played frontier sheriff Pat Garrett opposite Clu Gulager as outlaw Billy the Kid in the western television series The Tall Man (although the series ran for seventy-five half-hour episodes, the one in which Garrett kills Billy was never filmed). Sullivan appeared in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) as John Chisum, but his scene was excised from the release print (though later restored to the film). He had a featured role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. In additional to The Tall Man, Sullivan also starred in the television series The Road West, which aired on NBC on Monday, alternating with Perry Como), during the 1966-1967 season. Sullivan played the role of family patriarch Ben Pride. Sullivan guest starred in many series, including The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Reporter, The Love Boat, Little House on the Prairie, and McMillan and Wife. He starred in many Hallmark Hall of Fame specials including a highly acclaimed production of "The Price" opposite George C. Scott. Sullivan was consistently in demand for the entirety of his career. His acting career spanned romantic leading man roles to villains and finally to character roles. In his later years, Sullivan had roles in the films, Oh God with George Burns and Earthquake, where he shared scenes with Ava Gardner. Sullivan has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one at 1500 Vine St. for his work in television, and another at 6160 Hollywood Blvd. for motion pictures.
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Justiny Sayson

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A third-year communication student from Davao del Norte State College, passionate about film and photography. He values film as a way to give voice to the unheard and advocate for various causes. His love for film extends to regional cinema, which he believes should be empowered. His favorite genres are coming- of-age and social dramas that explore diverse societal realities. More than his filmography, Justiny is a young dreamer, born in the banana fields, who hopes to contribute impactful films to the industry he loves.
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Helen Valkna

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Helen Valkna (born on July 13, 1977) in Tallinn is an Estonian TV director. Graduated from Tallinn 21st high school in 1995, then studied for a year at Tallinn Pedagogical University majoring in mathematics and informatics, in 2000 graduated from the same school majoring in television directing (informatics as an additional major). In 1997, she started working at Estonian Television as an assistant, since 1999 as a director of cultural programs. She has worked as an assistant director on many feature films.
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