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China Miéville

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China Tom Miéville FRSL (born 6 September 1972) is a British speculative fiction author, essayist, comic book writer, socialist political activist, and literary critic. He often describes his work as weird fiction and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird. Miéville has won numerous awards for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke, British Fantasy, British SF, Hugo, Locus and World Fantasy Awards. He holds the record for the most Arthur C Clarke Award wins (three).
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Chow Yun-fat

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Chow Yun-fat SBS (born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.
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Bob Baker

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bob Baker (born in Bristol, England on 26 July 1939) is a British television and film writer. His most famous contributions have been as the author of four scripts for the Wallace and Gromit films The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and A Matter of Loaf and Death (in which a character is named after him). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Baker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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 who 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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Adrian Younge

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Adrian Younge was known foremost as an entertainment law professor when he provided the score for the blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite (2009). As noted on the front sleeve of the release, Younge was the composer and producer, yet he also performed most of the music -- an acid-tinged hybrid of soul and funk -- on well over a dozen instruments, assisted by only a handful of vocalists and ancillary musicians, and also edited the film itself. Younge reached that point after a 13-year process that entailed immersing himself in hip-hop production, deepening a scholarly appreciation for a broad spectrum of late-'60s and early-'70s sounds, teaching himself to play a multitude of instruments, and learning the ins and outs of recording in the analog domain. Once the effect of Black Dynamite took hold, Younge's grip tightened with conceptual solo projects ranging from the dark psychedelic soul of Something About April (2011) to the synthesizer experimentation of The Electronique Void (2016). Concurrent sessions yielded full-lengths headlined by major influences such as the Delfonics, Ghostface Killah, Souls of Mischief, and Bilal. Younge's synthesis of vintage styles from a crate-digger's perspective appealed to hip-hop producers such as No I.D., the RZA, and DJ Premier, major inspirations who sampled his work. Younge also got to work directly with another influence, A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad, for the score of Marvel's Luke Cage, as well as The Midnight Hour (2018) and the Jazz Is Dead sessions (2020). His vision has expanded again with an album, short film, and podcast entitled The American Negro (2021).
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Marvin 'Krondon' Jones III

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Marvin Jones III (born July 9, 1976), also known as Krondon, is an American rapper and actor from Los Angeles, California. He is a member of the group Strong Arm Steady, along with rappers Phil Da Agony and Mitchy Slick. As an actor Jones portrays the character Tobias Whale in The CW superhero television series Black Lightning, and voices Tombstone in the superhero film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Strong Arm Steady formed in 2003, and released its debut album Deep Hearted in 2007 followed by the mixtape Gang Mentality, the conceptual album In Search of Stoney Jackson and their most recent installment, Arms & Hammers. Krondon's debut album, Everything’s Nothing, came out in 2013. Krondon collaborated with Shafiq Husayn (Sa-Ra Creative Partners) under the group name White Boiz, releasing the 2015 album Neighborhood Wonderful on Stones Throw Records. Krondon also ghostwrites for other rappers, such as Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Xzibit. Krondon maintains a friendship with Bishop T. D. Jakes and fellow actor Mahershala Ali. Jones grew up in South Central, Los Angeles. He is an African American with albinism.
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Ben Burtt

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. (born July 12, 1948) is an American sound designer for the films Star Wars (1977), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and WALL-E (2008). He is also a film editor and director, screenwriter, and voice actor. He is most notable for creating many of the iconic sound effects heard in the Star Wars film franchise, including the "voice" of R2-D2, the lightsaber hum and the heavy-breathing sound of Darth Vader. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Burtt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Alex Agnew

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​Alex Agnew (Antwerpen °1972) is een Belgisch stand-upcomedian. Agnew werd bekend toen hij in februari 2003 als eerste Belg in de geschiedenis het Leids Cabaret Festival won (Jury- en Publieksprijs). Na lang te hebben getoerd in typische line-ups van een comedycollectief en comedypodia ging in 2006 zijn eerste avondvullende soloshow in première, getiteld KA-BOOM! KA-BOOM! liep het hele seizoen 2005-2006 en werd in 2007 uitgezonden op de Vlaamse televisiezender Canvas.  In 2007 startte Agnew zijn tweede Theatershow Morimos Solamente. In datzelfde jaar coachte hij ook Xander De Rycke voor het programma Comedy Casino Cup van de Vlaamse televisiezender Canvas. De Rycke won uiteindelijk de finale. In 2009 gaat gaat de derde show More Human Than Human in première. De show tourt meer dan 250 keer langs uitverkochte theaterzalen. 2011 Alex Agnew staat 10 jaar op de planken. Om dit te vieren konidgt hij een éénmalige best of show aan in het Antwerpse Sportpaleis. Het zullen er uiteindelijk vijf worden. In deze show blikt hij nog één keer terug op z'n voorbije 10 jaar. Alex Agnew - Larger Than Life, sportpaleis Antwerpen 25, 26, 28 februari en 4 & 5 maart 2011. 63107 mensen zakten 5 dagen af om deze best of show tot een succes te maken. In 2013 is Alex Agnew 12 jaar bezig. Tijd om z'n andere passie iot te bouwen. Z'n hard-rock/metalband Diablo Blvd. Met nog één show in het sportpaleis "The Legend Ends" neemt Alex voor onbepaalde tijd afscheid van z'n comedyfans. Wie Alex nog één laatste keer aan het werk wil zien, kan dat op 25/10/2013 in het sportpaleis.  Daarnaast was Alex in al die jaren oa. te zien in de televisieprogramma's De Bovenste Plank en Comedy Casino (Canvas). En is hij al sinds 2009 de presentator van het jaarlijks terugkerende Studio Brussel programma 'De Zwaarste Lijst' Agnew heeft een Engelse vader en een Limburgse moeder. Een overdosis films, striphelden, en een ongezouten mening zorgt niet voor rustige, diepintellectuele humor, maar staat eerder voor rock'n roll comedy. Naast stand-upcomedian is Agnew ook zanger. Hij is frontman van de rockgroep DIABLO BLVD.
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Dan Chișu

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Dan Chisu is the organizer of DaKINO International Film Festival. The oldest film festival in Romania, held every year in Bucharest since 1991. He made a series of documentaries for television: Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Reality of a Myth - Peruvian Shamans (2007), The Earth's Taste in 80 Spices (2008). He produced and starred in a TV Show called "I Eat, Therefore I Am" which was broadcast four years on a national television. He also published books: "Alone Under the Shower" (2004) and "The Studio in the Forest of Cranes", "100 Times About", "Stories About Recipes" - 2 volumes. In 2008 directed his first feature film, "WebSiteStory". An independent production, released in 2010. His second film, "Ursul (The Bear)" released in the spring of 2011. "Si Caii Sunt Verzi pe Pereti (Chasing Rainbows)", his third film, released in November 2012. Currently he is in post-production with 2 feature projects: Deja Vu (dir. Dan Chisu, feature film) and Youtube Bazaar (dir. Dan Chisu, feature documentary).
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Jack Peter Mundy

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Jack Peter Mundy is a Director, Cinematographer and Producer. He was born on 18 October, 1979 in Hillingdon, England, UK to parents Peter Mundy, an Antique Dealer, and Lindsay Mundy, and grew up with 4 younger sisters. Jack studied film production at Christ Church University, Canterbury. In 2017 he formed the company Film Everything and directed his first short film 'Parallel'. He has since gone on to undertake numerous cinematographer and directing roles for films released globally on physical formats as well as online viewing with viewing figures for his films exceeding 10 million. He formed his production company Deception Films in 2021.
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