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Mikhail Kaufman
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Mikhail Kaufman was a Soviet cinematographer and photographer. In the 1920s, after Mikhail Kaufman returned from the Russian Civil War, his brother director Dziga Vertov offered him the opportunity to participate in his newsreel series Kino-Pravda as a cameraman.
Kaufman directed photography for several films, including Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera. The film is built around meta-reference and is full of innovative visual effects: in it, Kaufman acts as a cameraman and is seen shooting the film while walking on high bridges, hanging off the side of a train, climbing a smokestack and crawling underground with miners – all in order to get the best shot.
Mikhail Kaufman directed three films: Moscow (1927), In Spring (1929), and An Unprecedented Campaign (1931).
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Buse Meral
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Buse Meral, born on July 25, 1999, in Istanbul, is a graduate of the Mimar Sinan University Theatre Department. She began her acting career in 2018, appearing alongside Uraz Kaygılaroğlu in the family comedy series "Egenin Hamsisi". After joining the casts of "Bizim Hikaye" and "Tek Yürek", she played the character Mahmelek in the historical drama "Uyanış: Büyük Selçuklu" (2020). Subsequently, she starred with Burak Tozkoparan in another historical drama, "Destan," portraying the character Sırma. Following her role in "Baba" alongside Haluk Bilginer and Tolga Sarıtaş, the beautiful actress has recently appeared in "Vermem Seni Ellere" (2023), "Aşka Düşman" (2024), and "Gaddar" (2024). Most recently, Buse Meral played the lead role of Fikriye in the film "Cadı" (The Witch), adapted by Erman Bostan from a work by Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpinar.
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Peter Cambor
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Peter was born in Houston, TX. He attended college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut where he received a B.A. in English. Peter then moved to New York to pursue a career in acting. After two years in New York, he was accepted by The American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theatre, where he received an M.F.A in Acting. Shortly after receiving his M.F.A., Peter was cast in the Mark Taper Forum's production of The Cherry Orchard starring Annette Bening and Alfred Molina in 2006. During the production, a producer asked him to come and audition for the pilot of ABC's Notes from the Underbelly, in which he was cast starring opposite Jennifer Westfeldt. The series was picked up that summer, and ran on ABC for two seasons. Peter was next cast in CBS's drama NCIS:Los Angeles as Operations Psychologist Nate Getz. He still appears as Nate as a recurring cast member. Peter recently starred in the TBS comedy Wedding Band which aired in the fall of 2012. He just wrapped up shooting the NBC pilot Assistance starring Krysten Ritter, Alfred Molina, Zach Cregger, and Vinette Robinson.
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Georges Schwizgebel
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Schwizgebel was born on 28 September 1944 in Reconvilier, Canton of Berne (Jura bernois), in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. From 1960-65 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs at Geneva. In 1971 he founded Studio GDS where he produced and directed animated films as well as working in graphic design. From 1986 to 1995 he worked on retrospectives and exhibitions, among others, in Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris and New York. In 2002 he was awarded Swiss Film Prize, Best Short Film for “La jeune fille et les nuages”. His film, The Man With No Shadow was included in the Animation Show of Shows.
His 2011 short film Romance, a co-production of the National Film Board of Canada and two Swiss studios, was one of five animated shorts nominated for the 32nd Genie Awards, where it won the Award for Best Animated Short.
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Aidan Devine
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Aidan Devine is a Canadian film actor. He was born in England and immigrated with his family to Canada at the age of 15. He studied at Dawson College's Dome Theatre in Montreal, Quebec and began his acting career in Montreal. He would later relocate to Toronto. His 1993 breakout role came in Denys Arcand's, Love and Human Remains. Since then he has worked steadily in Canadian and American television and cinema capturing two Gemini Awards; a best actor award in 1997 for his performance as Ted Lindsay in Net Worth and in 1998, a best supporting actor Gemini for his performance as airframe engineer, Jim Chamberlin in The Arrow. He has been nominated three other times.
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Prariyapit Yu
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JingJing Prariyapit Yu is a supermodel and actor of Chinese-Thai descendant (Chinese father and Thai mother). Since January 2024, she's an artist under GMMTV (จีเอ็มเอ็มทีวี). She studied higher education at Assumption University.
JingJing had wanted to be an international model since childhood. Her dream came true when she began to enter this path at the age of fifteen, winning the Thai Super Model Contest 2012. In 2021, she was part of a five-member girl group project under White Music, 2021 Ratri.
She was previously an artist under QOW Entertainment, a subsidiary of 4NOLOGUE.
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Věra Plívová-Šimková
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Věra Plívová-Šimková ( May 29, 1934 Lomnice nad Popelkou – October 13 , 2024 Semily ) was a Czech film director, known especially for her films about children and for children.
She was born in Lomnica pod Popelka to a volunteer family. Her mother Vlasta Plívová (née Kaplanová) worked in the Svornost theater association in Lomnica, her father František was a teacher at a weaving school. When she was three years old, her father died. Her siblings were also involved in art, sister Břetislava Pospíšilová-Plívová was a painter, Vlasta Zděnovcová-Plívová was a Hispanist and translator. After passing the matriculation exam at Lepař's high school in Jičín , where she and her family moved because of her mother's work, she decided to study directing at FAMU. After completing her studies (1952–1957) under the guidance of Bořivoj Zeman, she began assisting directors Karl Kachyňa ( Král Šumava ) and Vojtěch Jasný ( Desire ) or Václav Vorlíček ( The Case of the Lupínek ) at Barrand. After finishing her film career, she lived in Chuchelno near Semil. Her husband was the glassmaker Tomáš Šimek , who died in 1998.
She died in Semily on 13 October 2024 at the age of 90.
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Yang Bai
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Bai Yang, formerly named Yang Chengfang, was an actress in Mainland China. In 1936, starred in his first movie "Cross Street". In 1989, she took the lead in the biographical drama "Spread to the World Is Love", for which she won the Honorary Actor Award from the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television of China. In 1995, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the world film and the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Chinese film, Bai Yang won the Chinese Film Century Award: Actress Award. On September 18, 1996, Bai Yang passed away at the age of 76.
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Bad Bunny
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Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (born March 10, 1994), known professionally as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, record producer, and occasional professional wrestler. Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap", he is widely credited with helping Spanish-language rap reach mainstream global popularity and is considered one of the greatest Latino rappers of all time.
Bad Bunny rose to prominence in 2016 with his song "Diles", which led to a recording contract with Hear This Music. He continued gaining global recognition with songs such as the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "I Like It" (with Cardi B and J Balvin) and the top-five single "Mía" (featuring Drake). Bad Bunny's debut studio album, X 100pre (2018), was ranked among the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. His second solo album, YHLQMDLG (2020), became Spotify's most-streamed album of the year worldwide, with its 11 tracks charting simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100.
El Último Tour Del Mundo (2020), Bad Bunny's third solo album, became the first all-Spanish language album to top the US Billboard 200, while its lead single, "Dakiti", topped the Billboard Global 200. His fourth solo album, Un Verano Sin Ti (2022), was the year's most successful album globally according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). He followed it with the Billboard 200 number-one albums Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana (2023) and Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025); the latter became the first Spanish-language album to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. He scored another four global number-one singles—"Un x100to" (with Grupo Frontera), "Where She Goes", "Mónaco", and "DTMF", with the lattermost becoming the first Spanish-language solo song to top the Billboard Hot 100. He headlined the Super Bowl LX halftime show in 2026.
His accolades include six Grammy Awards, seventeen Latin Grammy Awards, eight Billboard Music Awards, and thirteen Lo Nuestro Awards. Billboard crowned him the Greatest Pop Star of 2022 and 2025, as well as the Top Touring Artist of the Year in 2022. He became the most-streamed artist of the year on Spotify four times between 2020 and 2025. Outside of music, he occasionally performs in professional wrestling. Bad Bunny began making appearances on WWE programming in 2021 and made his in-ring debut at WrestleMania 37. He is a one-time WWE 24/7 Champion and has wrestled at the 2022 Royal Rumble and the 2023 Backlash pay-per-view events. Bad Bunny has also starred in multiple films, including Bullet Train (2022), Cassandro (2023), Caught Stealing (2025), and Happy Gilmore 2 (2025).
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Marion E. Wong
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Marion E. Wong (January 2, 1895 – February 4, 1969) was a Chinese American company director, costume designer, director, actress, producer, music performer and screenwriter.
Marion Evelyn Wong was born in San Francisco but was raised in Oakland, California. In 1911, Wong traveled to China to meet her future husband. Her two brothers, who were looking for wives, accompanied her. One of her brothers died in China due to smallpox. The other brother, Albert Wong, married Violet, who was the sister-in-law to Marion. Wong returned home without a husband because she refused to marry him. She was a student at the University of California for some time.
In 1916, at the age of 21, she established the Mandarin Film Company. Her uncle, Ben Lim, described in a 1916 newspaper article as a "wealthy Chinese merchant and landowner", provided the funding. Her trip to China also served as inspiration for The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West, Marion's first film in the Mandarin Film Company. The film was regarded as the first Chinese-American feature film. The film was also written, produced, and directed by Wong, who also designed the costumes and sceneries. Marion also cast herself as one of the characters in the film. An article in the July 17, 1917 issue of The Moving Picture World said that the film "deals with the curse of a Chinese god that follows his people because of the influence of western civilation." It is also about Chinese assimilation into American society.
The Curse of Quon Gwon only had two screenings after its completion. A rough cut of the film was viewed in 1916 at the Kinema Theater and a formal premier of the film was shown in 1917 but the film did not receive commercial distribution. Seen as a financial failure, Wong asked her family to never speak of the film again. Her uncle Lim at this time also declared bankruptcy, for he did not see any possibility of return of his investment. Wong's company did not produce any other films after the flop of The Curse of Quon Gwon.
In 1917, Wong married Kim Seung Hong. He was the first Chinese student to graduate from the University of California – Berkeley and was the first Chinese electrical engineer in the country. After Kim and Wong got married, Wong founded the Singapor Hut restaurant in Richmond, California in 1919. The restaurant soon became popular for its musical cabarets. Wong performed everything from traditional Chinese operas to popular music at The Singapor Hut. During this time, Wong also toured in vaudeville as a singer and musician. She died in 1969.
Her The Curse of Quon Gwon came into the spotlight when two of its reels were found in an Oakland basement. Only two reels of the eight-reel film survive, and they do not explain the characters or plot.
Since its last screening in 1917, Wong's film was screened only twice over the following ninety years. It was shown once in 1948 at a public screening in Berkeley, California and once in 1974 at a screening for over seventy family members.
In 2006, The Curse of Quon Gwon was successfully added to the National Film Registry and cataloged with the Library of Congress.
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