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Cristian Parras

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Cristian arrived in the entertainment world in 2010 and he soon realized that this was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Since then he has collaborated on several projects (animation, short films and feature films). In 2014, he made his first short film called “The Passenger”, where he discovered his passion for making films. After moving to England in 2015, his third short film “From the other side (2016) ” was selected at Barcelona Planet Film Festival, winning the award “Best Horror Short film” in iHolly film Festival in Los Angeles (U.S). Subsequently, he decided to make his first feature film “Under the Crystal Dome (2019)”, where he experimented and explored several creative fields. It has been submitted to several Film Festivals and selected at The “Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards” and “CKF International Film Festival”. It is also Finalist at Gold Movie Awards® (Best Feature No Budget of April 2019) in London and Finalist at TMFF The Monthly Film Festival in Glasgow.
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Don Steele

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Don Steele (born Donald Steele Revert; April 1, 1936 – August 5, 1997) was one of the most popular disc jockeys in the United States from the middle of the 1960s until his retirement (for health reasons) in May 1997. He was better known as "The Real Don Steele," a name suggested by his program director, Steve Brown, at KOIL-AM in Omaha, Nebraska. Brown hoped the moniker would click with listeners and make him stand out from other radio personalities. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Steele licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Eugène Lourié

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Eugène Lourié (1903 - 26 May 1991) was a French film director, art director, production designer, set designer and screenwriter who was known for his collaborations with Jean Renoir and for his 1950s science fiction movies. Allmovie contributor, Sandra Brennan, has wrote that he was "among the best art directors in French cinema." He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1969 for best visual effects on the film Krakatoa, East of Java. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eugène Lourié, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sol Roth

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Sol Roth grew up in Eugene, Oregon as a skinny, shy kid. In high school he got his first taste of theater and was hooked. He began writing his own stories and overcame the shyness that dominated his childhood. After high-school he served in the US Army and built up his body and real life adventure experience. He attended the University of Oregon and after being inspired by the stories of independent filmmakers in the in the early pre-digital filmmaking revolution he wrote, starred, and directed the feature film "Boy Who Never Slept". He had 0 previous filmmaking experience and taught himself each part of the movie making process. The final movie was released on YouTube in 2006 garnering million of views as it became the first feature film to ever be released that way. After college, Sol Roth put everything he owned in the trunk of his car and drove down to LA. He was inspired again by the collaborative art online. In 2010, he started MoviePals with goal of creating a platform for artists all around the world to worth together. The MoviePals application was launched and it gained thousands of users in the first month. Sol Roth's picture appeared on the front page of the LA Times and he spoke at the Open World Forum in Paris, France. A few short films, and a web-series was created on it and the idea started to gain traction. Sol Roth also created a feature film and some experimental cinema pieces (In Real Life). Eventually MoviePals failed, everything was taken offline and Sol Roth lost everything. He never stopped writing or dreaming, but spent years recovering and figuring out what to do from there. In 2015 while working as web developer, he wrote / starred in and directed a short horror movie called The Dollface Slasher. This short film went on to play in a number of festivals and premiere at the famous Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. At the same time, he made some progress and almost sold an epic sci-fi movie script and relaunched his career. Life continued with it's ups and downs and after a number of failed attempts at a big win (large movie), Sol Roth took a step back to try something new. To return to the love of the art and to start again with a different perspective. He founded Sol Roth Media in 2020, and instead of waiting and putting all his energy into the grandiose ideas, he went simpler. Basic, minimalist and pure. He started video blogging daily, expressing his creativity across many different mediums. His audience began to grow again and new opportunities presented themselves. Physicality wise, he pushed his body to it's limits, crafting the body of a Greek God, the best body of his life. While visiting his mother who was dying of cancer, she left him a camera and made him promise to make a movie and go for his dreams again. True to his word, Sol Roth started planning the creation of a feature film. While on quarantine from Covid-19 in 2020, Sol Roth created "Sol Roth's The Audition" a solo feature film, shot in black and white. It was distributed internationally and received wonderful reviews. In 2021 Sol Roth is video blogging his filmmaking adventures and working on his next movie. His goal is to make works that matter and inspire others while expressing his true self. And being awesome!
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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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Chris Pecchenino

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Chris Pecchenino is an LA-based film and television actor born and raised in San Jose, CA. He got his start performing improvisational comedy in 2004. He can be seen once a month with his sketch team The Money Pit at the Ruby LA theater in Los Angeles. In 2019 he wrote, produced, and starred in his first SAG/Aftra short film Delivery Guy, based on a true story. He can also be seen in the Amazon Original Series Tales of Morrissa and the short film Sparks!, which has been screened at the Queen Palm Film Festival, The Raw Science Film Festival, the KWC Film Festival, the Los Angeles Movie Awards, the LA Indie FIlm Festival, the Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival, The Hollywood Forever Film Festival, The Beverly Hills Film Festival, the Los Angeles Cinefest, and the Adrian Film Festival.
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Edwige Fenech

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Fenech was born in Bône (now Annaba), in French Algeria to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. From the late 1960s to early 1980s, Fenech starred in many types of European movies. She is best known for her erotic comedies, and began to work in that field in the late 1960s with Austrian director Franz Antel. Fenech also achieved fame with giallo and sex films such as Five Dolls for an August Moon, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and Sex with a Smile, many of which were directed by Sergio Martino. In the 1980s, she became a television personality, typically appearing with Barbara Bouchet on a chat show on Italian television. In the mid-1990s, she was engaged to the well-known Italian industrialist Luca di Montezemolo. After many years of work in movie production (she produced, among others, The Merchant of Venice, 2004, with Al Pacino), Fenech accepted Quentin Tarantino's offer to star in another movie, Hostel: Part II (2007), directed by Eli Roth. A British general named Ed Fenech (played by Mike Myers) is a character in Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edwige Fenech, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Ain Lutsepp

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Ain Lutsepp (born May 6, 1954) is an Estonian actor and politician. Born in Tallinn, Ain Lutsepp began his career as a child actor at age thirteen as the character Tõnisson in the 1969 Arvo Kruusement directed Estonian language film Kevade (English: Spring); a film adaptation of author Oskar Luts' popular 1913 novel of the same name. In 1972, he graduated for the Tallinn 10th Secondary School (now, the Tallinn Nõmme Gymnasium) and in 1980 he graduated from the Tallinn State Conservatory's Performing Arts Department (present-day Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) under course instructor Merle Karusoo. Graduating classmates included actors Roman Baskin, Guido Kangur, Arvo Kukumägi, Paul Poom, Anne Veesaar, and Ülle Kaljuste.
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Nabila Obeid

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Nabila is an Egyptian actress and is among the best recognized cinema figures as she was dubbed “Egypt’s first star”. She was born to a wealthy family and her talents were noticed by the Egyptian director ‘Atef Salim in the film “Mafeesh Tafahom” (“No Understanding”) on which she did not utter a single word. Thereafter she assumed the lead on the film “Rabi’ah al-‘Addawiyah”. Nabila was married to her discoverer ‘Atef Salim for a few years. She worked in Lebanese cinema and on stage. On television she assumed the lead on works such as “Bardees”, “Sahibat al-Galala” and “al-‘Amma Nour” (“Aunt Noor”) in 2003. On radio Nabila worked on “al-Sabr fee al-Malahat”. The actress also produced some of her own movies such as “Wa Saqatt fee Bahr al-‘Assal” (“I Fell into a Sea of Honey”), she also worked on stage with Tahhiya Karyoka on “Robabika” and received the award for best actress for her role in the film “La Yazal al-Tahqiq Mustamirran” (“The Investigation is still Ongoing”) in 1979. Nabila also received the award for other films such as “Intihar Sahib al-Shaqa” (“The Suicide of the Flat’s Owner”), “al-‘Azraa wa al-Sha’r al-Abyad” (“The Virgin and the White Hair”) and “Khatib Mama” (“Mother’s Fiancé”). Nabila was chosen as a member of the judge’s committee in the 2003 Cairo International Film Festival. She is considered among the Egyptian stars who are most intelligent and capable of survival and she dubbed herself “Egypt’s first star”. Nabila established herself following “Rabi’ah al-‘Addawiyah” however the crucial part of her life began when she started producing. She was in her best form with Ashraf Fahmy and in works adapted from Ehsan ‘Abd Al Qudoos. Also among her most important roles was “Kashf al-Mastoor” (“Revealing that which is Hidden”) and “Toot Toot”.
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Catalina Rodriguez

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A rising Latina from Miami who has made a career in modeling, TV commercials and as an actress - Catalina Rodriguez was born in Medellin, Colombia, her family is that of Spaniard and German descent. At three years old her family relocated to Miami, Florida in search of the American Dream where she was raised along with her older sister, Liliana. As the daughter of Guillermo, a freelance camera man and Maria, a sales rep, Catalina began her life in show business at the young age of five as a cast member in the HIT-TV children's comedy show "Caramelo y Galletita." At 8 years of age she participated in her first pageant and by the time she was 18 years old she had won three major titles, reached the semi-finals in Miss World Colombia and was the runner-up in Teen Magazine's Model Search. These achievements, however, were only a stepping stone into her modeling career, where she modeled for several brands, including BodyGlove and Urban clothing companies, before even attending college. Determined to go beyond modeling and into her true passion of acting Catalina attended a prestigious magnet program at the Performing Arts and Visual Arts Center (P.A.V.A.C.) where she dedicated all four years of high school to cultivating and honing her skills in the visual and performing arts. There, she performed in various productions, including Miss Sarah Brown in "Guys and Dolls", Maria in "West Side Story" and "Much A Do About Nothing" in Disney's Pleasure Island, among many others. She then attended the University of Miami where she double majored in Film & Television as well as Theater. Expanding her knowledge beyond acting, she also discovered a talent behind the scenes as a television and video editor; a skill that would help her pay for college by landing part time jobs as a news editor with the local affiliate of NBC WTVJ channel 6 - as well as other freelance projects. Throughout
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