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Piero Sbragia

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Piero Sbragia is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. Directed "República das Saúvas" (2021), chosen by the jury as Best Short Film in Documentary at the 6th International Film Festival of Santos and official selection of Festival Estação Virtual - 35 Years of Brazilian Cinema, Unified Filmmakers Media Library and São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum, "Uma Bala" (2018), official selection of the 29th São Paulo International Short Film Festival and the 12th Film and Human Rights Exhibition, "Em Refúgio", a project made in partnership with the UN and exhibited at the 1st International Meeting on Migração e Refúgio and "Descobrir: Os Criadores de Saci" (2014), official selection of the 13th Children's Film Festival in Florianópolis, of the 1st Children's Film Festival of Porto Alegre and highlight of the 15th edition of the Festival Nacional do Saci in Botucatu. He wrote "Novas Fronteiras do Documentário: Entre a Factualidade e a Ficcionalidade", published by Chiado Books in 2020. He has a master's degree in Education, Art and History of Culture and a degree in Social Communication, with specialization in Journalism, from Universidade Mackenzie. He specialized in Documentary Cinema at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP) and the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (CPDOC). He is currently the artistic director of the Second Stories Films production company, text and content editor for TV Globo and founder of the 3emCENA channel on YouTube. In his career, he worked for the three largest television stations in Brazil: Rede Globo, Rede Record and SBT. He also collaborated on audiovisual projects for Hospital das Clínicas, TV Cultura, Rural Channel, WorldSkills, TV Justiça and XP Educação. He was artistic director at eduK, an online learning platform that offers free courses. He has been a university professor since 2013, with classes taught at Mackenzie University, at the School of Communication at FIAM-FAAM Centro Universitário, at FATEC-SP and at the University of Santo Amaro. He was a finalist for the 2018 Professionals of Music Award in the "Best Music Video Director" category and win as Best Director for "República das Saúvas" in Roshani International Film Festival 2021.
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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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Rob Lowe

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Robert Hepler "Rob" Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American actor. Lowe came to prominence after appearing in films such as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, About Last Night..., and St. Elmo's Fire. On television, Lowe is known for his role as Sam Seaborn on The West Wing and his role as Senator Robert McCallister on Brothers & Sisters. He is currently a main cast member of Parks and Recreation, playing the role of Chris Traeger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Lowe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Buck Owens

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Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006), known professionally as Buck Owens, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. He was the lead singer for Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California, Owens's adopted home and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music".
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Donny Damara

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Donny yang merupakan keponakan dari penulis novel terkenal Ikke Supomo ini memulai karirnya sebagai model iklan di produk mentega Blue Band pada tahun 1978. Kemudian sebagai bintang beberapa produk iklan reklame di televisi pada tahun 1970an-1980an. Setelah menginjak remaja mulai merambah pada dunia seni peran sebagai pemain film remaja di layar lebar. Ia pernah mendapatkan nominasi pemeran pendukung terbaik dalam Festival Film Indonesia dalam film Perwira dan Ksatria. Lulusan FISIP UI ini setelah film Indonesia mengalami kemunduran, kemudian terjun ke dunia sinetron.
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Lin Tucci

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Lin Tucci (born Linda Petrucci, February 8, 1960) is an American actress. Tucci is known for her performance as Henrietta "Mama" Bazoom in the film Showgirls (1995). She also performed in the number of theater productions, and co-starred in several films. Tucci became interested in acting while in High School in Rhode Island. She later attended Community College of Rhode Island and Boston Conservatory of Music, where she received a fine arts degree in theater. Afterwards, Tucci moved to New York to pursue a career in acting. In 2013, Tucci began appearing in a recurring role in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black. She plays the role of Anita DeMarco, an outspoken Jersey-Italian inmate. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lizbeth Olivier

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Lizbeth Olivier is a beautiful Mexican actress who became famous in the 80's during the era of sexy comedies for playing mostly roles of a sexy and innocent young lady. During his career he participated in more than 100 movies and videohomes, among which Un macho en el salón de belleza (1987), Los gatos de las azoteas (1988), El Semental de Palo Alto (1989), De super macho a super hembra (1989), Si mi cama hablara (1989), Los rateros (1989), Comezón a la mexicana (1989), Transplante a la mexicana (1990), Mujeres de medianoche (1990), Ellos trajeron la violencia (1990), Jovenes Perversos (1991), Secuestro (1995), Sabado Violento (1996), Campeón (1997), in addition to playing secondary roles in dozens of films in which she does not appear credited. Lizbeth also made several fotonovelas and gave us exquisite nudes in movies like "Ellos trajeron la violencia" and "El Semental de Palo Alto". Lizbeth retired from the stage in the late 90's and has not been heard from since.
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Federica Foglia

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Federica Foglia is a transnational visual artist and writer. She holds a BA in Multimedia Languages and Digital Humanities: History of Art, Theatre, and Cinema from the University of Naples L'Orientale, an MFA in Film from York University, Toronto, and is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. ​ She is interested in migration, citizenship and identity, displacement, women of the diaspora, migrant temporalities, and finding a visual language to investigate these experiences. Her practice revolves around tactile filmmaking, recycled cinema, amateur filmmaking, archives, ecofeminism, and materialist cinema. She works within the domestic space to remediate found-footage movies, via a sculptural approach she intervenes directly on the celluloid body. Her work engages with the physical qualities of the film medium and the politics of fragmented aesthetics. She is currently working on a project that involves eco-friendly emulsion lifting techniques to remediate 16mm archival films and developing eco-sustainable photographic processes with algae-based materials.​ Her works have been exhibited and won awards in several international art galleries and festivals, including Macau Art Garden, Images Festival, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Bilbao Arte Foundation, Toronto International Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Crossroads San Francisco, Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, REAKTOR Wien, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Visions in the Nunnery - Whitechapel UK, Groupe Intervention Vidéo Montreal, SCAD Savannah International Film Festival, NYU Orphan Film Symposium, ULTRAcinema Festival Mexico, MIMESIS Documentary Festival, Camerimage, Mostra del Cinema di Pesaro, Torino Film Festival, Friche la Belle de Mai, Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico City, Museo Nitsch Napoli.​ Her research has been supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and received an MFA nomination from the Graduate Program in Cinema and Media Studies (York University) for the Governor General's Gold Medal. She is also the recipient of the 2017 RBC Arts Access Fund Award for Newcomer Artists in Canada. ​
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Shelley Morrison

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shelley Morrison (born Rachel Mitrani, also known as Rachel Domínguez; October 26, 1936 – December 1, 2019) was an American theater and television actress. Her most recognizable role was as maid Rosario Salazar in the NBC comedy television series Will & Grace, which she played from 1999 to 2006. She was also a regular performer on the sitcom The Flying Nun, playing Sister Sixto, a nun known mostly for mangling the English language; and had a recurring role in the soap opera General Hospital in 1982.
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Joe Jackson

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Born in Staffordshire, David Jackson (as he was then known) grew up in Portsmouth in the Paulsgrove area and he attended the City of Portsmouth Boys School. His parents later moved to Gosport when he was a teenager. He initially learned to play the violin but soon switched to piano and prevailed on his dad to install one in the hall of their Paulsgrove council house. From the age of 16, he played in bars, and won a scholarship to study musical composition at London's Royal Academy of Music. Jackson's first band, in Gosport, was Edward Bear (not to be confused with the 1970s Canadian band fronted by Larry Evoy). The band was later renamed Edwin Bear and later Arms and Legs, but dissolved in 1976 after two unsuccessful singles.  Although he was still known as David Jackson while in Arms & Legs, it was around this time that Jackson picked up the nickname "Joe", based on his perceived resemblance to the puppet character Joe 90.  He then spent some time in the cabaret circuit to make money to record his own demos.  However, whilst at school he had been known as 'Joe' to his schoolmates and teachers from 1972 onwards. In 1978, a record producer heard his tape, and got him signed to A&M Records.  The album Look Sharp! was recorded straight away, and was released in 1979, quickly followed by I'm the Man (also 1979) and Beat Crazy in 1980. He also collaborated with Lincoln Thompson in reggae crossover. In 1981, Jackson produced an album for the British power pop group The Keys. The Keys Album was the group's only LP. The Joe Jackson Band toured extensively. After the break-up of the band, Jackson took a break and recorded an album of old-style swing and blues tunes, Jumpin' Jive, featuring songs of Cab Calloway, Lester Young, Glenn Miller, and most prominently, Louis Jordan. The album, and associated single release, was credited to Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive. Jackson's 1982 album Night and Day paid tribute to the wit and style of Cole Porter (and indirectly to New York City).  Night and Day was Jackson's only studio album to reach either the United States or UK Top 10, peaking at #4 (US) and at #3 (UK), and the cuts "Steppin' Out" and "Breaking Us In Two" were chart hits. The tracks "Real Men" and "A Slow Song" have pointed obliquely to the city's early 1980s gay culture. Jackson lived in New York for the next 20 years, incorporating the sound of the city into his music throughout the 1980s and beyond. Almost two years later, Jackson recorded the UK #14 album Body and Soul, also heavily influenced by pop and jazz standards and salsa, showcasing the US #15 hit single "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)". In 1986, he collaborated with Suzanne Vega on the single "Left of Center" from Pretty in Pink's soundtrack (with Vega singing and Jackson playing piano). Jackson followed with the live album Big World, a three-sided double record – the fourth side consisted of a single centring groove and a label stating "there is no music on this side". The instrumental "Will Power" set the stage for things to come later, but before he left pop behind, he put out two more albums, Blaze of Glory and Laughter & Lust. For some years he drifted away from the pop style, going on to be signed by Sony Classical in 1997.  They released his Symphony No. 1 in 1999, for which he received a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album in 2001. In 1995, Joe Jackson contributed his version of "Statue of Liberty" on a tribute album to the English band XTC called "Testimonial Dinner" (released 1998). In 2003, he reunited his original quartet[2] for the album Volume 4, and a lengthy tour. As before, the quartet consisted of Jackson, Graham Maby, Dave Houghton and Gary Sanford. In 2004, Jackson performed a cover of Pulp's "Common People", with William Shatner for Shatner's album Has Been. Jackson toured 45 US and European cities in 2005 with Todd Rundgren and the string quartet Ethel,  appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien performing their collaborative cover version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Thereafter, he embarked on a short tour in a piano-bass-drums trio format. He toured Europe in Spring 2007, again in a trio format.  Jackson's album, Rain was released by Rykodisc on 28 January 2008 in the UK and one day later in the US.[6] The album included a CD and a bonus DVD containing over 40 minutes of material, including concert and behind-the-scenes footage and interviews. Jackson performed two UK shows in spring 2008, followed by a full UK tour
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