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Martin Weisz

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Martin Weisz is a German music video and film director. He has directed over 350 music videos and worked with artists such as Nickelback, Brandy, Puff Daddy, and LL Cool J. He has also directed numerous commercials. Martin Weisz won an MTV European Video Award for Best Dance Video and was nominated for Best Rock Video in 2000. He made his debut as a film director with the controversial 2006 film Rohtenburg (called Grimm Love in the United States). His second film, The Hills Have Eyes 2, debuted in theaters in 2007. His third film, Squatters, debuted in May of 2014. Martin Weisz is married and has four children.
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Kent Lee

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Kent Lee's need to satisfy his creative desires saw him join the ever-challenging world of acting. In this time he has been involved in a number of diverse projects, such as working as an extra on international blockbuster feature films 'San Andreas' starring Hollywood superstar The Rock, and Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken'. Kent has appeared in popular television series 'Mako: Island of Secrets', a number of short films including Purryburry Productions' 'Gifted", a Chinese tourism campaign for Rumba Beach Resort, a promotional video for Welcome Fresh Foods, a webisode (S-Unit Australia), and in a series of projects for Global Wrestling Entertainment. He is trained and represented by Vox Talent Management, has received additional acting training from Bud Hopes, Tom McSweeney and Alison Telford, plus weapons training with Michael Bates in conjunction with Armsco. Looking to do more and do better, Kent eagerly anticipates working with talented and creative minds both new and old. He is keen to add more experience to his growing resume and strives to seek opportunities that broaden and challenge his emotional and physical skills.
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Warren Sapp

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Warren Carlos Sapp (born December 19, 1972) is an American former professional football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League(NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, winning the Lombardi Award and the Bronko Nagurski and Bill Willis trophies in 1994. Sapp was selected in the first round of 1995 NFL draft by the Buccaneers, where he spent his first nine seasons. In his final four seasons, he was a member of the Oakland Raiders. Since 2024, he has served as a graduate assistant for the Colorado Buffaloes.
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Yoshishige Yoshida

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Yoshishige Yoshida (吉田 喜重 Yoshida Yoshishige), also known as Kijū Yoshida, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Graduating from Tokyo University, Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and debuted as a director in 1960 with Rokudenashi. He was a central member of what came to be called the "Shōchiku Nouvelle Vague" along with Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, and his works have been studied under the larger rubric of the Japanese New Wave. Like many of his New Wave cohorts, he felt restricted under the studio system and left Shōchiku in 1964 to start his own production company where he directed such films as Eros + Massacre. He has directed more than 20 films between 1960 and 2004. He has also written a number of philosophical books about his work and the cinema, including an award-winning study of Yasujirō Ozu.
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Lia Laats

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Lia Laats (February 17, 1926 – April 24, 2004) was an Estonian stage and film actress whose career spanned over forty years. Lia Laats was born in Tallinn to Karl René Laats and Helmi Karin Laats (née Tähe), who both worked as domestic servants. She had two older half-siblings from her father's previous marriage. She studied at the National Drama Theatre (now, the Estonian Drama Theatre) in Tallinn, but left her studies in 1946 without graduating. Lia Laats made her screen debut in the 1947 Herbert Rappaport directed Soviet-Estonian language drama Elu tsitadellis (English: Life in a Citadel) for Lenfilm, based on the 1946 play of the same name by Estonian author and communist politician August Jakobson. Elu tsitadellis was the first post-World War II Estonian feature film, following the annexation of Estonia into the Soviet Union. The plot largely revolves around the arrival of the Soviets following the German occupation of Estonia in 1944 and justice being meted out to Estonians who had collaborated with German occupying forces. The film ends with jubilant Estonians celebrating their "liberation" and inclusion into the Soviet Union; accepting the communist ideology. Both the film and Laats were awarded the Stalin Prize. Following several more dramas, Lia Laats was paired with Estonian singer Georg Ots in the 1961 Viktor Nevežin directed light comedy Juhuslik kohtumine. Laats' most memorable roles are arguably in three comedies directed by Sulev Nõmmik and paired onscreen with actor Ervin Abel. The first of which was 1968's Mehed ei nuta, followed by Noor pensionär in 1972 and Siin me oleme! in 1979. The three films proved to be very popular and are still often broadcast on Estonian television.
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Andrei Rostotsky

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Андре́й Станисла́вович Росто́цкий (25 января 1957 — 5 мая 2002) — советский российский актёр, режиссёр, каскадёр, постановщик трюков, телеведущий, сценарист, Заслуженный артист РСФСР (1991) Андрей Ростоцкий родился в Москве, в семье кинорежиссёра Станислава Ростоцкого и актрисы Нины Меньшиковой 25 января 1957 года. Закончил английскую спецшколу. В школе получил кличку «Бешеный», так как, несмотря на маленький рост, мог вступить в схватку с любым обидчиком. В 1974 году, продолжая учёбу в десятом классе, в тайне от родителей поступил вольнослушателем ВГИКа в актёрскую мастерскую С. Бондарчука. Закончив школу, продолжил стационарное обучение на актёрском отделении, тогда же впервые снялся в кино в фильме «Это мы не проходили». Не прерывая обучения в институте, активно снимался в кино, пропускал занятия, за что был представлен к отчислению. Спас Ростоцкого приз, полученный им на ВГИКовском фестивале за роль Мити Красикова в фильме «Это мы не проходили». В фильме Сергея Бондарчука «Они сражались за Родину» исполнил свой первый трюк (его герой погибает под танком), до сих пор этот трюк никто не повторил. Служил в Советской Армии (1978-1980). Военную службу проходил в Отдельном кавалерийском полку на коне Рекорд, с которым выиграл полковые соревнования, посвящённые Дню Победы. Этот конь был «партнёром» Андрея на съёмках фильма «Конец императора тайги». Во время службы в армии Ростоцкий снялся в фильме «Эскадрон гусар летучих». В этом фильме актёр снимался бесплатно, т. к. был приписан к съёмкам рядовым кавалерийского полка
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Andy Samberg

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Andy Samberg (born David A. J. Samberg; August 18, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, musician, producer and writer. He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012, where he and his fellow group members are credited with popularizing the SNL Digital Shorts. Samberg has starred in several films, including Hot Rod (2007), I Love You, Man (2009), That's My Boy (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), and Palm Springs (2020). Samberg has had lead voice roles in Space Chimps (2008), the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs film series (2009–2013), the Hotel Transylvania film series (2012–2022), and Storks (2016). From 2013 to 2021, he starred as Jake Peralta in the Fox, and later NBC, police procedural sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine for which he also produced. For his work on the show, he was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2013.
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Mohammad Reza Foroutan

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Mohammad-Reza Foroutan is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Islamic Azad University. His acting in an episode of the mystery drama ‘Clue’ (1996) brought him an offer to play in Masoud Kimiai’s film. He achieved a nation-wide fame after appearing in ‘Mercedes’ (1997) and ‘Objection’ (1999). Shining in movies such as ‘Red’ (1998), ‘Two Women’ (1998), ‘Born in the Month of Mehr’ (1999), ‘Under the City’s Skin’ (1999), and ‘Winter Solstice’ (2000) made him a superstar. He has also acted in movies such as ‘The Target’ (1994), ‘The Last Port’ (1994), ‘Friday Soldiers’ (2003), ‘Octopus’ (2004), ‘The Bachelors’ (2004), ‘Kandelous Gardens’ (2004), ‘While Everyone Was Asleep’ (2005), ‘Cold Soil’ (2005), ‘The Night Bus’ (2006), ‘Hidden Feeling’ (2006), ‘The Second Woman’ (2007), ‘My Child’ (2008), ‘14-Karat’ (2008), ‘Invitation’ (2008), ‘Being 40’ (2009), ‘The Other Man’ (2009), ‘The Pact’ (2011), ‘Unfinished Tajrish’ (2011), ‘No One, Nowhere’ (2012), ‘Metropol’ (2013), ‘Sensitive Level’ (2013), and ‘Night Shift’ (2014). He has appeared in series such as ‘The Forgotten’ (2010) and ‘Ancient Land’ (2010) as well. Foroutan received two Crystal Simorghs for Best Actor for his leading role in the physiological thriller ‘Red’(1998) and ‘Slowly’ (2005). He has bagged two Golden Statues for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Iran Cinema Celebration Awards for ‘Winter Solstice’ and ‘Red’.
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Federica Foglia

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Federica Foglia is a transnational visual artist and writer. She holds a BA in Multimedia Languages and Digital Humanities: History of Art, Theatre, and Cinema from the University of Naples L'Orientale, an MFA in Film from York University, Toronto, and is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. ​ She is interested in migration, citizenship and identity, displacement, women of the diaspora, migrant temporalities, and finding a visual language to investigate these experiences. Her practice revolves around tactile filmmaking, recycled cinema, amateur filmmaking, archives, ecofeminism, and materialist cinema. She works within the domestic space to remediate found-footage movies, via a sculptural approach she intervenes directly on the celluloid body. Her work engages with the physical qualities of the film medium and the politics of fragmented aesthetics. She is currently working on a project that involves eco-friendly emulsion lifting techniques to remediate 16mm archival films and developing eco-sustainable photographic processes with algae-based materials.​ Her works have been exhibited and won awards in several international art galleries and festivals, including Macau Art Garden, Images Festival, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Bilbao Arte Foundation, Toronto International Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Crossroads San Francisco, Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, REAKTOR Wien, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Visions in the Nunnery - Whitechapel UK, Groupe Intervention Vidéo Montreal, SCAD Savannah International Film Festival, NYU Orphan Film Symposium, ULTRAcinema Festival Mexico, MIMESIS Documentary Festival, Camerimage, Mostra del Cinema di Pesaro, Torino Film Festival, Friche la Belle de Mai, Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico City, Museo Nitsch Napoli.​ Her research has been supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and received an MFA nomination from the Graduate Program in Cinema and Media Studies (York University) for the Governor General's Gold Medal. She is also the recipient of the 2017 RBC Arts Access Fund Award for Newcomer Artists in Canada. ​
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Dick Wolf

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Richard Anthony "Dick" Wolf (born December 20, 1946) is an American television producer, specializing in crime dramas such as Miami Vice and the entire Law & Order franchise. Throughout his career, he has won several awards including an Emmy as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has also authored three books, with the first, Law & Order: Crime Scenes is a nonfiction companion to the Law & Order series. The Intercept and The Execution are the first volumes in a new thriller series with N.Y.P.D. special agent Jeremy Fisk.
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