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Michael Glawogger

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Michael Glawogger (3 December 1959 – 23 April 2014) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. From 1981 to 1982, Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy. Like fellow Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, with whom he collaborated several times, he was mainly known for his documentary films, such as Megacities (1998), Workingman's Death (2005) and Whores' Glory (2011). In 2008 he was a member of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival. In 2013, Glawogger contributed one chapter to "Cathedrals of Culture", a 3-D film on architecture produced by Wim Wenders. Four days after incorrectly being diagnosed with typhus, he died from malaria on 22 April 2014 shortly before midnight in Monrovia, Liberia during a movie production. In February 2015, a book of stories entitled 69 Hotelzimmer was released. The stories used hotel rooms Glawogger had visited (or in some cases only heard about in passing) as a departure for stories that reflect the visual richness for which his films are celebrated.
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Edward Woodward

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Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE (June 1, 1930 - November 16, 2009) was an English stage and screen actor and singer. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Woodward began his career on stage, and throughout his career he appeared in productions in both the West End in London and on Broadway in New York. He came to wider attention from 1967 in the title role of the British television spy drama Callan, earning him the 1970 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. Among his film credits, Woodward starred as Police Sergeant Howie in the 1973 cult British horror film The Wicker Man, and in the title role of the noted 1980 Australian biopic Breaker Morant. From 1985 Woodward starred as British ex-secret agent and vigilante Robert McCall in the American television series The Equalizer, earning him the 1986 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Drama Actor.
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Mario Garbuglia

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Mario Garbuglia (Fontespina, a district of Civitanova Marche, 27 May 1927 – Rome, 30 March 2010) was an Italian set designer. He won the David di Donatello for Best Sets and Decorations, the Nastro d'Argento, and a BAFTA. Garbuglia's professional debut as a designer came in 1950 with Women Without Names, directed by Géza von Radványi. Over the years, he worked with directors such as Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli, Luigi Zampa, and Roger Vadim. He died in 2010 after a long illness. Source: Article "Mario Garbuglia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Stanley Fields

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Stanley Fields (born Walter L. Agnew; May 20, 1883 – April 23, 1941) was an American actor. On Broadway, Fields performed in Fifty Miles from Boston (1908) and The Red Widow (1911). After that, for eight years, Fields performed in vaudeville with Frank Fay. Thanks to Norma Talmadge, who thought his broken nose gave him a ferocious appearance, he started on a film career with a screen debut as a gunman in her talkie New York Nights. In 1930, he signed a long-term contract with Paramount Pictures. He died on April 23, 1941. He died of a heart attack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stanley Fields (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Donna Murphy

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959) is an American stage, film, television actress and singer. Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens. She received three more Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood,Lovemusik as Lotte Lenya and The People in the Picture as Raisel/Bubbie. She is known, most recently, for her role as Mother Gothel in the animated Disney film Tangled (2010), Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and her numerous stage roles in musical theatre. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donna Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Omar Soto

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Omar Soto, a passionate visual artist, began with self-taught studies, a Graphic Design degree, and a three-year audiovisual production apprenticeship. He created music videos for various artists and documented culinary arts across South America, gaining recognition as a food photographer and videographer. Moving to the U.S. in 2018, he worked in Miami, New York, and Los Angeles as a graphic designer, video editor, and videographer. Now based in Atlanta, GA, Omar focuses on directing and editing films, music videos, and commercial projects, continually pursuing artistic growth.
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Chico Peres Smith

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Chico Peres Smith is a filmmaker and media artist whose work interrogates the fragile boundaries between analog memory and digital decay. His practice—spanning experimental documentaries, lyrical shorts, and community-engaged cinema—examines how technologies mediate identity, migration, and collective memory. Selected Works Tomorrow Doesn’t Exist (2024) A glitch-based interrogation of screen culture, structured as a triptych of decaying aspect ratios (9:16, 4:3, 16:9). The film’s handheld collage book becomes both subject and structural blueprint, questioning what survives when media erodes. Fogo Frio (2024) A haunting short film that traces the spectral edges of identity through contemplative imagery and destabilized soundscapes. Tummo (2024) A minimalist meditation on inner transformation, where abstract visuals and rhythmic editing evoke the heat of self-reinvention. VDO-POEM: Lisbon Revisited (2010) A hypnotic adaptation of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry, blending 16mm textures with digital artifacts to explore nostalgia’s fractures. L’Île da Saudade (2017) Edited a feature community-engaged documentary on oral histories of Montreal’s Portuguese diaspora, emphasizing the tactile preservation of migrant narratives. Dead Dicks (2019) As co-producer and editor, Smith helped shape this genre-bending horror feature into a Fantasia-premiered award winning exploration of mental health and sibling bonds. Collaborative Practice Smith’s work thrives in the liminal space between solitary creation and collective action. As co-organizer of Raindance Montreal, he builds bridges between experimental filmmakers and grassroots communities. His editorial collaborations (e.g., Dead Dicks) and participatory projects (e.g., Centre d’histoire de Montréal oral histories) reveal a commitment to cinema as both personal expression and social dialogue. Education & Influences A graduate of Lisbon Theatre & Film School, Smith’s methodology merges European avant-garde traditions with North American DIY ethos. His influences range from the media archaeology of Chris Marker to the community praxis of Agnès Varda, filtered through a post-internet lens. Current Focus Smith is developing new works that further explore: The materiality of digital decay (glitch art) Migrant narratives as sites of archival resistance Handmade cinema (Archival 16mm/8mm, collage books) as a counterpoint to algorithmic culture.
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Tseng Jing-hua

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Tseng Jing-hua (also known as Tseng Ching-hua) is a talented Taiwanese actor born on December 30, 1997, in Dongshan, Yilan, Taiwan. He gained widespread recognition for his role as Birdy in the 2020 film Your Name Engraved Herein, which became the highest-grossing LGBTQ+ film in Taiwan. Tseng also starred in the supernatural horror film Detention (2019), earning a nomination for Best New Performer at the 56th Golden Horse Awards. He studied at I-Shou University, where he graduated with a degree in Film and Television. Tseng's career includes a variety of roles in both films and television series, showcasing his versatility as an actor. Some of his notable works include the drama series Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (2023) and the movie Eye of the Storm (2023).
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Christian Stolte

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Christian Stolte is an American actor known for his starring role as Randall 'Mouch' McHolland on NBC's Chicago Fire. He portrayed corrections officer Keith Stolte on the TV series Prison Break and Charles Makley in the film Public Enemies. He starred as chief appraiser David Kim Parker in The Onion's web series Lake Dredge Appraisal and as Frank Kohler on HBO's Boss. He's appeared in multiple films including Road to Perdition, Stranger Than Fiction, Leather heads, The Express, Public Enemies, Law Abiding Citizen, and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).
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Henry G. Sanders

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Henry Gayle Sanders is an American actor known for his TV roles as Prosper Denton on Queen Sugar, Samuel Carter on 9-1-1, Uncle Chester on Hap & Leonard, Cedric on the miniseries DMZ, and Robert E. On Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as well as the TV movie of the same name. He's known for his film roles as Arthur Holloway in Samaritan, Pastor Jack in Roman J. Israel Esq., Cager Lee in Selma, Red Henderson in Whiplash, Martin in Rocky Balboa, Cesar's Trainer in Play It to the Bone, and Sandy in Bull Durham. He has also had roles in a number of TV movies. He's guest starred on numerous TV shows including Shameless, American Horror Story, Grey's Anatomy, The Mentalist, CSI, Cold Case, Eleventh Hour, Heartland, Commander in Chief, Joan of Arcadia, The West Wing, Boomtown, NYPD Blue, Moesha, Sliders, ER, Murphy Brown, The Young and the Restless, L.A. Law, Alf, Matlock, Married... with Children, Beauty and the Beast, Moonlighting, Cagney & Lacey, Highway to Heaven, What's Happening Now?, 227, Hunter, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Knots Landing, Night Court, Knight Rider, Diff'rent Strokes, St. Elsewhere, The Greatest American Hero, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and The Rockford Files.
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