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Adam Falkoff

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Adam Falkoff is a founding partner and Co-Chairman of Circle 4 Entertainment, an independent financing and production company with close relationships to distributors and the major entertainment studios. The company has become a leader in the independent film space featuring a collection of award winning, inspiring films on determination, grit and achieving the American Dream. Circle 4 Entertainment continually seeks out new and interesting commercial full feature length film projects and currently has four additional films in development and three in pre-production. Mr. Falkoff has produced, directed, and acted in theatrically released films generating millions of dollars in box office revenues. With all-star casts, Circle 4 Entertainment films have won multiple 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director' awards and have been the 'Best in Show' headline films in over a dozen film festivals, including part of the "Top 10" most downloaded films on Amazon Prime. His films include, Walt Before Mickey (2015), Swing State (2016), New Life (2016), The Brawler (2018), Stowaway (2019), and Honest Thief (2019). Mr. Falkoff and his team were invited to The White House to meet President Obama and screen Walt Before Mickey - a film whose central theme is immigrant perseverance and successfully achieving the American Dream. They were also invited by the US Congress to screen the film in the Capitol Building. Mr. Falkoff is a member of The Collective, an organization dedicated to driving social change through film and technology. The Collective is comprised of leaders in entrepreneurship, film, music, business, technology, philanthropy, and other creative endeavors meeting annually at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. He lends his philanthropic expertise and mentorship to a Washington, D.C.- based nonprofit organization that provides young aspiring filmmakers in the inner city with educational and financial resources. Mr. Falkoff is also the President and a Principal of CapitalKeys - regarded as one of the top global strategy and public affairs firms. While at CapitalKeys, among a variety of clients, he works on intellectual property issues of critical importance to the major film studios and represents foundations for actors seeking to continually raise awareness of their causes within the public policy space. Adam Falkoff was featured in the "Power 100 List", a list of the 100 most powerful people in Washington, DC in the May, 2017 publication of Washington Life Magazine and again in the May 2018 publication. Earlier in his career, Mr. Falkoff served two U.S. Senators on Capitol Hill and a former Vice President of the United States.
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Amy Yasbeck

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Amy Marie Yasbeck (born September 12, 1962) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Casey Chappel Davenport on the sitcom Wings from 1994 to 1997, and for having played the mermaid Madison in the television film Splash, Too in 1988 (the role originated by Daryl Hannah in the film Splash). Yasbeck was born in Blue Ash, Ohio, and graduated from The Summit Country Day School in Cincinnati. She then attended the University of Detroit Mercy, where she studied theater. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Yasbeck's early acting credits include guest roles on such television shows as Dallas, Spies, Werewolf, J.J. Starbuck, Magnum, P.I., China Beach, and Murphy Brown. She also played Olivia Reed for four months between 1986 and 1987 on the long-running daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives. In 1988, Yasbeck starred in the Disney television film Splash, Too. She then went on to appear in a number of films, including House II: The Second Story (1989), Pretty Woman (1990), Problem Child (1990), Problem Child 2 (1991), The Mask (1994), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). From 1994 to 1997, Yasbeck starred as Casey Chappel Davenport on the sitcom Wings. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her performance. In 1999, Yasbeck married actor John Ritter. They had one son together, Noah, who was born in 1998. Ritter died suddenly of an aortic dissection in 2003. Since Ritter's death, Yasbeck has continued to work in film and television. She has appeared in the films The Santa Clause 2 (2002), The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006), and The Christmas Chronicles (2018). She has also had guest roles on such television shows as Two and a Half Men, The Middle, and Modern Family. Yasbeck is also a writer and producer. She wrote the book With Love and Laughter, John Ritter, which was published in 2005. She also produced the documentary John Ritter: A Celebration of His Life, which aired on the Hallmark Channel in 2004. Yasbeck is a strong advocate for heart health awareness. She is a member of the board of directors of the John Ritter Foundation, which was founded in 2003 to raise money for heart research.
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Nithiwat Tharathorn

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Nithiwat Tharathorn (nickname: Ton) is director born in Bangkok, Thailand. He is graduated at Bachelor of Communication Arts specialed Film and Photography from Chulalongkorn University. One of his works more know is "My Girl" (2003), film that was the most popular and the highest grossing movie of the year in Thailand. In fact, for that film he won The Best Director in "The Asian New Talent Award" (2004) and "The Thailand National Film Association Award" (2004) together with the others five directors.
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Stanley Weber

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Stanley Weber is a French actor best known for playing Juan Borgia in the Borgia series. He is the son of actor Jacques Weber and Christine Weber, he has two brothers, Kim and Tommy Weber. In 2011, he joined the main cast of the French series Borgia where he played John Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI (John Doman), until 2013. In 2013, he joined the cast of the film Not Another Happy Ending where he played Tom Duval. In 2015, it was announced that Stanley would join the second season of the popular series Outlander where he will play the villain of the second season, Le Comte St. Germain, a wine merchant.
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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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Andrés Campos

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Born in Vigo, Spain, in 2003, Andrés Campos is a director, screenwriter and producer known for short films such as Lost Messages (2023). His interest in cinema began at the IES Pino Manso, where with his classmate Samuel Herrero Giráldez he would create the amateur production company, SHAC80 Film Company, in 2019, which would initially be used to carry out school projects. In 2021 he would go to study with Martín R. Camiña at the IES Audiovisual Vigo where he would participate in projects such as Malditos Deseos (2023) or DA European (2023) for which he would win the award for best production at the Ostras de Pedra together with Lucía Fernández and Laura Piñeiro.
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Robert McAtee

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A once shy, thoughtful and observant child, Robert McAtee was always questioning day-to-day mysteries and putting them under the light. A romance with movies led him to waking up one day as an actor, and life experience has brought integrity and edge along for the ride. Indie Slate Magazine recently featured a cover article on Robert who is known for leading roles in independent film - including the multi-festival and award nominated film, Trail of Crumbs (2008). Published reviews for his work have described his varied performances as "Strong," "Stellar," and "Top-Notch," and he was recently observed in a Vanity Fair article. Robert continues to find mystery and shine a light back on the audience - not only as an actor but also as a musician and filmmaker.
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Grace Stafford

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Grace Stafford (born Grace Boyle, November 7, 1903 – March 17, 1992) was an American actress and the wife of animation producer Walter Lantz. Stafford is best known for providing the voice of Woody Woodpecker, a creation of Lantz's, for many years starting from 1950. At first Stafford asked not to be credited in the role, believing that audiences would be disillusioned if they knew Woody was voiced by a woman. But she soon came to enjoy being known as Woody's voice and, starting with 1958's Misguided Missile, finally allowed her name to be credited on screen. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
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Rogério Samora

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José Rogério dos Anjos Filipe da Conceição Samora (28 October 1958 – 15 December 2021) was a Portuguese film, television and stage actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1980. On 20 July 2021, Rogério Samora suffered two cardiorespiratory arrests during recordings of SIC's soap opera Amor Amor. Subsequently he was hospitalized in a coma. He died on 15 December 2021, at the age of 63. Source: Article "Rogério Samora" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Nicholas Farrell

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost, in 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet , in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty. Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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