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Hunter Hopewell

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At nine years old, Hunter first picked up a camera to make videos with his friends and family. Growing up, the support continued, and today, Hunter has won over sixty awards across twenty short films, a feature film, and 300+ videos, including a first place win at the United Nations for Numbskull, an anti-bullying short film. In 2021, his feature directorial debut Shellfish premiered at the TCL Chinese Theater as part of the Dances with Films Festival and went on to win thirty awards at seventy-five festivals, including ten Best of Festival awards. You can catch Shellfish on Prime Video, Apple TV+, and every major rental platform Walt Disney has been a longtime inspiration in Hunter’s life. At Disney for six years now, Hunter works full-time as a Video Producer, where he Assistant Directed the feature documentary Adventure Thru The Walt Disney Archives, streaming on Disney+. Ongoing, he produces content for D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, Disney Corporate, Walt Disney Studios, Pixar, Marvel, and more. As a voice actor, Hunter provides VO for D23 promos and events, co-hosts Inside Disney: The Official Disney Podcast, and is the creator and narrator of D23’s most popular series, Five Facts. Five Facts is now available on Disney On Demand at every Disney Resort in the United States. None of this would be possible without support from friends, family, and educators. Likewise, Hunter plans to pay it forward and give back through film productions and festivals with profits benefiting arts education programs.
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Nadine Labaki

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Nadine Labaki (born February 18, 1974) is a Lebanese actress and director. She is one of the well known directors in the Arabic music video industry. Nadine is usually credited for bringing artists into the scene. In 2007, Labaki co-wrote, directed, and starred in her feature-film debut, Caramel, which became an international sensation at film festivals and went on to achieve box office success. It showcases a Beirut that most are not familiar with. Rather than tackle political and religious issues which have plagued Lebanon, she presents a romantic comedy that deals with five Beirut women who gather at a beauty salon and deal with love, sexuality, tradition, disappointment, and everyday ups and downs. The film garnered Labaki much acclaim as both a director and actress, and put her on Variety's 10 Directors to Look Out for List. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nadine Labaki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Zineb Triki

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Zineb Triki (born 1980) is a French actress of Moroccan descent, known for her role as Nadia El Mansour in the French television series The Bureau. Zineb Triki was born in 1980 in Morocco. She attended a French school, where she took up theatre and classical dance. She moved to Paris at the age of 15 to attend high school. She obtained a degree in political science from McGill University in Canada. She did an internship in UN headquarters in NY in 2003. She obtained a master's degree in political science from the Sorbonne University in Paris, then obtained another master's degree in audio-visual production in Paris. Triki began her acting career in earnest from 2009, with short roles in 14h05 and The Misadventures of Franck and Martha. Her first film roles were in Deux fenêtres in 2013 and La Marche verte (2016). It was the TV series The Bureau that brought her to prominence with her role of Nadia El Mansour. Her performance as Nassim's mother in the 2017 film De toutes mes forces was described as "luminous, in this short and difficult role". Source: Article "Zineb Triki" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Nicolas Van Beveren

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Nicolas Van Beveren (born August 31, 1982) is a French actor and film director best known for starring as Jon in the 2016 science fiction film Virtual Revolution. Van Beveren was born in Summer 1982 to a Seychellois mother and Belgian father in Machabée, a town in Mahé, Seychelles. At the age of 6, he moved to France where he developed interest in acting. He started his career in 2007 after he was called up for an audition in Paris to play a role in a television series on M6, a French TV channel. He has since gone on to feature in various television series and films and has directed four short films over the course of his career. He cites Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Denzel Washington as his influences. Van Beveren appeared in Axe (marque) publicity in 2015. Nicolas Van Beveren went in Notre Dame private school in Poissy, a little city next to Paris between 1987 and 1991. As a teenager, he went in collège Saint-Stanislas in Osny from 1991 to 1996 then he changed for another collège, Léonard de Vinci, located in Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes from 1996 to 1998 in Île-de-France region. He passed his baccalaureate in the Martin Luther King highschool in Bussy-Saint-Georges from 1998 to 2001. He entered between 1998 and 2000 in the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique of Noisiel. Source: Article "Nicolas van Beveren" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Theresa Saldana

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Theresa Saldana (August 20, 1954 – June 6, 2016) was an American actress and author, known for her work in film and television. She is perhaps best known for her role as Rachel Scali, the wife of Police Commissioner Tony Scali, in the 1990s television series The Commish, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, in 1994. Major film roles include the part of Lenore La Motta, the wife of Joe Pesci's character, in the 1980 feature film Raging Bull and Robert Zemeckis's Beatle-mania ensemble I Wanna Hold Your Hand. She also appeared in Home Movies with Kirk Douglas and Nancy Allen for director Brian De Palma in 1980. The crime of stalking was brought to early attention after Saldana survived a brutal attempted murder by an obsessed fan in 1982. Saldana died at age 61 on June 6, 2016, following her hospitalization for pneumonia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Theresa Saldana, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Yvonne Rainer

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Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York and began to choreograph her own work in 1960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern dance in the following decades. Between 1962 and 1975 Rainer presented her choreography throughout the U.S. and Europe. In 2000 and 2001 Rainer returned to dance via commissions from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation to choreograph work for the White Oak Dance Project, including a 35-minute piece called After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Since 1972, Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Performers (1972) and more recently The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). Rainer has received numerous awards and fellowships for her work, including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1969, 1988), three Rockefeller Fellowships (1988, 1990, 1996), a MacArthur Fellowship (1990-95), and a Wexner Prize (1995), as well as four Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees. Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961-73 was published by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and New York University Press in 1974; The Films of Yvonne Rainer, a collection of her film scripts, was published by Indiana University Press in 1989; and A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. Rainer's latest choreographic work, based on Balanchine's AGON, was presented at Dance Theater Workshop, April 2006, subsequently traveling to the Getty Museum. A memoir, Feelings are Facts: A Life, was published by MIT Press in 2006.
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Gianna Nannini

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Gianna Nannini (born 14 June 1954) is an Italian singer and songwriter. Her most notable songs include "America" (1979), "Fotoromanza" (1984), "I Maschi" (1987) and "Bello e impossibile" (1986), the latter a European hit, with success in Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Nannini was born in Siena on 14 June 1954. She is the elder sister of former Formula One racing driver Alessandro Nannini. She studied piano and composition in Milan in the late 1970s and obtained a degree in philosophy from the University of Siena in 1994. The following year she took part in a protest organized by Greenpeace at the French embassy in Rome against the decision of the French government to pursue nuclear experiments at Mururoa. Nannini scored her first domestic hit in 1979 with the single "America" and the album California, which became a success in several European countries. Her international breakthrough happened in 1984 with the release of her sixth album, the Conny Plank-produced Puzzle, which peaked in the top 10 in the Italian, German, Austrian and Swiss charts. The first single from the album, "Fotoromanza", was supported by a music video directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, and went on to win many musical awards. Nannini embarked on a long European tour to support the album, culminating in a headlining gig at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In 1986, her song "Bello e impossibile" was a European hit in Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Her 1987 compilation album Maschi e Altri sold over a million copies. In 2004, she released the greatest hits album Perle, where a number of her most renowned songs were rearrangemed with the support of musicians such as Christian Lohr on piano (who also had a co-producer credit), and a string quartet composed of Vincenzo di Donna (first violin), Luigi de Maio (second violin), Gerardo Morrone (viola) and Antonio di Franca (violoncello). With this orchestra Nannini went on a European tour from 2004 to 2005. The album Grazie was released in February 2006, and peaked at number one of the Italian hit-parade with the single "Sei nell'anima". In April 2007, Nannini released Pia come la canto io, a collection of songs produced by Wil Malone and originally intended for a rock opera based on the medieval Tuscan character Pia de' Tolomei (briefly mentioned in Dante's Purgatorio) that would eventually be performed in 2008 after eleven months of gestation. An acoustic version of her song Meravigliosa Creatura (from Perle) has been used in a 2008 advertisement commercial for the Fiat Bravo directed by Matthias Zentner. Fiat would later include another Gianna Nannini song, "Aria", in a subsequent Fiat Bravo ad. ... Source: Article "Gianna Nannini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Lakshmi Marikar

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Born in the year 1991 and raised in Kerala, Lakshmi Marikar graduated from the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi in the year 2017. Her enthusiasm in film and visual culture brought her to pursue her Masters in Philosophy in Women's Studies and Film Studies. Since 2018, Lakshmi has been working as Assistant Director in a prominent production house in Kerala, and worked as an Assistant Director for a feature length film 'Virus' in Malayalam. Her field of interest entails history of cinema, South East Asian cinema, slow cinema, and feminist cinema. Extremely sensitive to the idea of cinematic form, Lakshmi believes that her short film "Blackhead" is an amalgamation of these cinematic traditions. Her other interests include Sociology, Music, and Theatre.
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Chris Terrio

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Chris Terrio (born December 31, 1976) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film Argo, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio also won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2012 and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, a BAFTA, and the 2013 Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for this work. Terrio wrote the screenplay for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the follow-up to Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, based on an earlier draft by David S. Goyer, and is credited as co-writer for the 2017 film Justice League, alongside Joss Whedon for the theatrical cut and Zack Snyder and Will Beall for the 2021 director's cut for Warner Bros. He completed another screenplay, A Foreigner, based on an article by the journalist David Grann. Terrio also co-wrote the script for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with director J. J. Abrams. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Terrio, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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