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- Abigail O'Branovich is an American Actor, Singer, and Musician born in Arizona and has lived in No. CA, Texas, and Los Angeles. Abigail attends college on the Central Coast of California and is majoring in Journalism.
Abigail has always enjoyed performing and being in front of an audience. She grew up making her own movies and videos, and at a young age theatre became her passion. She began with TexArts (Austin, TX) at four years old. She studied musical theatre, acting, dance, and voice. Musical theatre was a favorite as it combined her primary love for acting and singing. Abigail has appeared in over 12 TexArts productions, including leading roles in Annie, Peter Pan, and The Jungle Book. Her last show with TexArts was a role in their professional production series of Wait Until Dark. Abigail has been taking acting classes and workshops in LA for more than two years and in 2017 filmed two episodes of Clique Wars; and in 2018 filmed her first commercial for Chevrolet. She recently filmed an episode of Showtime's Shameless, opposite Shanola Hampton and Steve Howey. She finished 2019 filming a short film, Healer, which will be entered in film festivals this year.
Abigail has been singing her entire life and has been training with professional voice coaches for 5 years. Abigail's passion for singing has also drawn her to become a musician, she plays the ukulele and guitar and is now formally studying songwriting.
When Abigail isn't nurturing her passion of acting and singing, she enjoys listening to music, hiking, practicing yoga, and reading. - Director
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Adam Green is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor known for his success within the horror genre with films like the "Hatchet" franchise, "Frozen," and "Digging Up The Marrow." He is also the creator, writer, director, star, and show runner of the television comedy series "Holliston" and the singer for the metal band "Haddonfield."
Born and raised in the small town of Holliston, Massachusetts, Green grew up performing leading roles in school plays and hosting his own morning radio program "Coffee & Donuts" on the town's local radio station. He graduated from Holliston High School in 1993. Upon graduating from Hofstra University in New York with a Bachelor of Science in film and television production in 1997, Green landed a job producing and directing local and regional cable television commercials at Time Warner Cable Advertising back in his hometown of Boston. While working at Time Warner he met cinematographer Will Barratt and in 1998 the two formed their own production company ArieScope Pictures and began making short films together under the ArieScope banner. During this time period Green was also the lead singer for the hard rock/metal band "Haddonfield" which amassed a large and loyal following as they headlined weekly club shows in Salam, MA and other large venues around Boston's north shore in the late 90's. In 1999 at the age of 24, Green wrote, directed, and starred in his first feature film "Coffee & Donuts" which was based on his own life and his experiences chasing his career dreams while trying to get over the break-up with his first girlfriend/childhood love. The autobiographical comedy was made for only $400 by "borrowing" Time Warner's commercial production equipment after hours and ultimately gained the attention of United Talent Agency (UTA) in Los Angeles when it won "Best Picture" in (what was then called) The Smoky Mountain Film Festival. Signed by UTA as an official client, Green moved to Los Angeles in February of 2000 with the intention of turning "C&D" into a sit-com.
Though reactions were positive and interest in "Coffee & Donuts" was strong within the industry, Green's first three years in Los Angeles were a major struggle and he survived by doing any odd job that would pay or feed him. Though he was able to find occasional paid work as everything from an on-set production assistant, to performing as a stand-up comic, to working as a writer's/show runner's assistant, to performing as an extra/background, to writing, shooting, and editing local cable commercials, to ghost writing jokes for other stand-up comics, Green's main occupation from 2000 to 2003 was working as the DJ in the upstairs nightclub at the world famous Rainbow Bar and Grill where he survived off of the left-over food off of customer's plates or by eating out of the restaurant's trash at the end of each night. He performed stand-up comedy at various Hollywood night clubs including monthly comedy shows at the Rainbow with his regular troupe of comedians/friends that included comics Andy Sandberg, Chris Romano, and Eric Falconer whom had also all yet to be discovered at that time. In 2003 Green sold "Coffee & Donuts" as a sit-com to Touchstone/UPN with Tom Shadyac producing. However, the week after Green delivered the final draft of his pilot script for "Coffee & Donuts", UPN announced a merger with the WB (creating the CW network) and all of UPN's pilot development was scrapped, tying up the rights to Green's dream project and life story for a further 5 years. ("C&D" would wind up going through thirteen years of development and false starts due to random corporate mergers at various networks and studios before eventually coming to fruition as the television series "Holliston" in 2012.)
Green first gained worldwide recognition with his independent slasher comedy "Hatchet", a story and character ("Victor Crowley") that he had first come up with while at summer sleep away camp in 1983 when he was just 8 years old in an effort to scare the other children in his cabin. Written in 2003 while Green was spinning heavy metal records in the DJ booth at the Rainbow, "Hatchet" was filmed independently in May/June of 2005 and had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, 2006. Green spent the next 18 months traveling the world with his gruesome slasher/comedy as it played dozens of film festivals, winning a multitude of awards and accumulating incredibly positive reviews from critics and fans along the way. "Hatchet" received a US theatrical release through Anchor Bay on September 7, 2007 and introduced the world to the iconic villain "Victor Crowley." A worldwide success, "Hatchet" has spawned three sequels to date. Green wrote and directed "Hatchet 2" which arrived in US theaters on October 1, 2010 and he also wrote and produced "Hatchet 3" (2013) which opened in US theaters on June 14, 2013.
After the first "Hatchet" film was massively censored by the Motion Picture Association of America for its 2007 theatrical release, Green made international headlines in 2010 by standing up to the MPAA's archaic and secretive ratings system and refusing to accept the organization's arbitrary NC-17 rating for "Hatchet 2" which the filmmaker stated was completely unfair given the comedic tone of his film and in comparison to the serious torture porn style films of the time, many of which featured sequences of rape and mean spirited, realistic violence but which also happened to be distributed by major studios. After offering cuts and re-submitting "Hatchet 2" to the MPAA numerous times to no avail in an effort to try and find a compromise for an "R" rating, Green and distributor Dark Sky ultimately opted to release the "Hatchet 2" uncut through an arrangement with AMC cinemas, making it the first genre film in almost 30 years to be released in mainstream multiplexes without an MPAA rating. Though the unrated release of "Hatchet 2" was endorsed and conducted exclusively through AMC theaters, the chain immediately began pulling the film from all screens upon its midnight opening and within just 48 hours of its release the film had mysteriously disappeared from all AMC screens nationwide. Though journalists in the media pointed to outside pressure from the MPAA on AMC to pull the film, no explanation was ever given on official record by a proper representative of AMC and the MPAA refused to comment on the matter. With "Hatchet 3" being green-lit almost immediately after "Hatchet 2" arrived on home video, "Victor Crowley" still succeeded despite the AMC/MPAA debacle.
Though "Hatchet" was always intended to be a trilogy, on August 22, 2017 Green took the entire genre world by surprise when he suddenly showed a 4th "Hatchet" film (titled "Victor Crowley") to a sold-out audience of fans that thought they had gathered at the Arclight Cinema in Hollywood, CA to watch a 10th anniversary screening of the original film. Written and directed by Green, "Victor Crowley" was made in complete secrecy over a two year period as the filmmaker's surprise to the fans (known as the "Hatchet Army") on the 10th anniversary of the original "Hatchet." The stunt worked famously and "Victor Crowley" was trending #5 in the world on social media on the night of its surprise premiere in Hollywood, CA - two spots above Marvel's star-studded A-list celebrity attended "Stan Lee Celebration" that was taking place that same night. Green immediately began a worldwide tour with the film that started just three nights later in London, England and carried on through cities in Germany, Canada, and all across the United States (where the tour was dubbed the "Dismember America Tour") until the middle of November. By the end of the tour "Victor Crowley" had played nightly in 57 cities and 4 countries with Green personally appearing and speaking at most of the screenings. To date "Victor Crowley" is the best reviewed of the four "Hatchet" films and the most financially successful film in the franchise since the original. Three months after the theatrical release, the film was released on home video on February 6, 2018. In the weeks leading up to the home video release "Victor Crowley" was the #3 best seller on Amazon.com and among the top 10 most pre-ordered Blu-Rays worldwide ranking above wide release studio films like "Justice League," "Blade Runner," "Jigsaw," and "Get Out" further solidifying the "Hatchet" franchise's villain "Victor Crowley" as a modern day horror icon.
"Hatchet" also earned Green his place in the "Splat Pack", a term coined by esteemed UK film critic Alan Jones to describe a core group of new genre filmmakers who brought practical effects and extreme violence/gore back to the horror genre in the mid 2000's. Heralded by Jones as "the next wave of genre filmmakers," his original article about the "Splat Pack" ran in Total Film magazine in April of 2006 and by October both Time Magazine and the New York Post had also published stories about the "Splat Pack." Green appeared in the 2010 documentary "The Splat Pack" that also featured extensive interviews with his fellow "Splat Pack" members Eli Roth, Neil Marshall, Darren Bousman, Alex Aja, and Greg McLean. (Missing from the documentary were "Splat Pack" members James Wan and Rob Zombie.) Various merchandise based on "Hatchet" and its iconic villain "Victor Crowley" continues to sell more and more each year and in August of 2015 the first widely distributed "Victor Crowley" Halloween mask hit retail shelves across America, selling out of stock nationwide long before the Halloween holiday had arrived. In 2011 "Victor Crowley" first appeared in comic book form in "Hatchet/Slash", a crossover comic between Green's "Hatchet" films and Tim Seeley's long-running "Hack/Slash" comic series. In October of 2016 the first issue of the official "Hatchet" comic hit retail stores and the series has continued on strong with a new issue being released every 3-4 months. Green's first novel, the "Hatchet" tie-in "I, Survivor" will be released in May of 2018. "I, Survivor" first appeared in "Victor Crowley" as a fictitious autobiography written by the film's main character "Andrew Yong," however Green and author Joe Knetter co-wrote the actual book so that fans could delve even further into the "Hatchet" universe and fill in the ten years that had passed in the storyline between "Hatchet 3" and "Victor Crowley."
Aside from "Hatchet" (2007) and its three sequels (2010, 2013, 2017), Green continued and diversified his filmmaking legacy by directing the award winning Hitchcockian psycho-drama "Spiral" (2008), by producing the Sundance shocker and critically acclaimed "Grace" (2009), by writing and directing another Sundance darling and global success the very next year with his snowy suspense thriller "Frozen" (2010), by producing, writing, and directing the comedy "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" which was included as part of the drive-in anthology film "Chillerama" (2011), and by writing, directing, and starring in the genre bending and highly praised successful pseudo-documentary "Digging Up The Marrow" (2015). In between his feature films Green also continued to write and direct various short films for his ArieScope website just for fun, several of which went on to become full blown viral hits with millions of views on-line including "Jack Chop," "Fairy Tale Police," and "Saber." Written, directed, and edited by Green, "Saber" received two awards in Lucasfilm's annual Star Wars Fan Film Awards at San Diego Comic-Con in 2009 ("Best Action" and "Audience Choice") and also spawned two sequels that were released to huge success in 2012 and 2014.
Meanwhile, after thirteen years of development and setbacks due to network mergers, in 2011 Green's ultimate passion project "Coffee & Donuts" was finally brought to fruition as the sit-com "Holliston." In its new form, Green was not only "Holliston's" creator but also the series' show-runner, writer, director, and main star. Licensed for broadcast by the FEARnet cable network, "Holliston" had its world television premiere on April 3, 2012 and quickly found a loyal audience. A second season was announced the morning after only the second episode had aired. An hour-long "Holliston Christmas Special" premiered later that same year on December 18th and is still considered by most fans to be their favorite episode of the series with its unexpected amount of emotion including a tear-jerking final scene between "Adam" and "Corri" that was revealed on the Blu-ray commentary track to have been completely improvised by actors Adam Green and Corri English. Season 2 of "Holliston" premiered on June 4, 2013 and further solidified the series as a hit despite FEARnet's extremely limited broadcast accessibility. However, just as Green was beginning to write Season 3, "Holliston" suffered the tragic death of main ensemble cast member Dave Brockie who passed away in what was eventually reported to be a drug overdose. Brockie not only played "Oderus Urungus" on "Holliston" (Green's character's imaginary alien friend and ulterior conscience), he had also performed as the lead singer for the heavy metal band GWAR for 30 years and was one of Green's closest friends in real life. To make matters even worse, just three weeks after Brockie's death, the FEARnet television network was suddenly dissolved in yet another unforeseen corporate merger between Comcast and Time Warner. In August of 2014 Green delivered a eulogy for Brockie at a public memorial in Virginia attended by several thousand GWAR and "Holliston" fans. During his speech, Green's played back the final voice mail Brockie had left for him and concluded by asking the thousands of fans that were present to all hold their hands together in the air. "This is your metal family," Green reminded the grieving fans. "And your metal family will always be here for you." The memorial concluded with a traditional viking style burning of Brockie's "Oderus Urungus" costume in Richmond's Haddad Lake. Overcome with grief, Green stepped away from "Holliston" for several years without any word if he would ever return to his show again.
During Green's indefinite hiatus from "Holliston," he continued to do a weekly podcast with fellow director, co-star, and real-life best friend Joe Lynch called "The Movie Crypt" on the GeekNation digital network. Named after the fictitious cable access program that Green and Lynch's character's host on "Holliston", "The Movie Crypt" was originally designed to merely be a spin-off and companion piece to the sit-com and the two filmmakers only planned to do the podcast for the ten weeks that Season 2 was airing. However, their weekly program began pulling in extraordinarily high numbers and quickly became one of the most popular entertainment industry behind the scenes podcasts on the internet due to Green and Lynch's enjoyable on-air chemistry and the duos unfiltered honesty about their real-life experiences as working artists in the Hollywood system. Focusing on a different guest artist's entire career journey each week, "The Movie Crypt" showcases all sides of the industry from filmmakers to actors to costumers to agents to studio executives to musicians and beyond. Guests have included Chris Columbus, Slash, Joe Dante, Jordan Peele, James Gunn, Penelope Spheeris, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Rob Cohen. By January of 2015 "The Movie Crypt" was averaging over 500,000 worldwide listeners a week and the podcast was listed in Entertainment Weekly's January 9th issue as one of "The Top 20 Podcasts You Should Be Listening To" out of over 285,000 podcasts in existence. In addition to their candid and compelling weekly artist interviews, Green and Lynch have also produced special stand out episodes of "The Movie Crypt" such as the November 2015 "Addiction" episode that tackled substance abuse and addiction within the industry, the December 2014 "Holliston Reunion" episode where the cast performed a new original "Holliston" episode designed as a radio play, and their December 2015 "Christmas Special" which featured a sincere and moving 2-hour interview with Santa Claus that remains the podcast's most popular episode to date. Green and Lynch have never missed a single week since the podcast first launched on May 6, 2013. It was "The Movie Crypt's" unplanned and unexpected success that would ultimately set the stage for the return of "Holliston."
In August of 2015 Entertainment Weekly made the announcement that Green and his cast had decided that they would indeed continue on with "Holliston" and do a 3rd season. In February of 2016 the "Holliston" cast appeared together on Facebook live where they answered questions from fans after completing their first ever read through of two of Green's new scripts for Season 3. During the Q&A with fans Green stated that "Oderus" would not be recast or replaced and that when "Holliston" returns he would acknowledge the loss of Brockie and then move on with the show, keeping his character's closet door permanently closed for as long as the series may continue. As of the time of this writing, Season 3 of "Holliston" is expected to begin shooting once the cast's individual production schedules can line-up together. With series stars Adam Green and Joe Lynch both consistently directing feature films and other television shows and with series co-star Dee Snider so busy with his various music projects and tours it is very difficult to get the entire cast together at the same time to shoot. The first official "Holliston" graphic novel (titled "Friendship Is Tragic") was announced and previewed on March 17, 2016 at Chicago's C2E2 comic book expo and pop culture convention. The comic book hit retail shelves in the Fall of 2016 and a sequel was green-lit just four days later. The second graphic novel (titled "Carnival of Carnage") hits shelves in May of 2018.
In 2015 Green turned ArieScope.com into an on-line network by offering weekly original programming. With over 100 free short films and original series' episodes to watch, Green's personal blog, and an on-line merchandise store, ArieScope.com has become a destination site for original content to millions of fans worldwide. Original series such as "Adam Green's Scary Sleepover" and "Horrified" proved to be extremely popular with fans and ArieScope.com also released the award winning series "20 Seconds To Live" which was helmed by filmmaker Ben Rock, an artist that Green personally believes in and wanted to expose his own audience to. Green's original on-line series and various short films are also carried on ArieScope's YouTube channel which has received over 4.6 million individual views to date.
In 2017 Green once again turned his attention back to his longtime band "Haddonfield" and the group released the album "Ghosts of Salem" on vinyl, CD, and digital through EMP Label Group and Green's own sub-label ArieScope Records. On October 14, 2017 "Haddonfield" celebrated the release of "Ghosts of Salem" with a live performance at the Palladium in Worcester, MA during the annual Rock And Shock horror and music festival. "Ministry," "Devil Driver," and "Motionless In White" also performed at the festival with "Haddonfield" in 2017.
A celebrated leader and inspirational personality in the horror genre, Adam Green has amassed an enormous following worldwide through his down to earth and extraordinarily kind demeanor at personal appearances, by his accessibility to his fans on social networking, by performing improv comedy and original live "Holliston" episodes for fans on the convention circuit, by never charging his fans for his autograph or photo, by consistently putting out new entertainment for his audience on such a frequent schedule, and by inspiring and encouraging his own fans that they too can achieve their dreams so long as they don't let the world's negativity change or disenchant their spirit. Green has personally organized and lead many charity events over the years. In May of 2013 he raised over $15,000.00 to help the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing by putting on a three-night fundraiser in his home town of Boston where he held theatrical screenings of the "Hatchet" films, a preview screening of select Season 2 episodes of "Holliston", and a silent auction of celebrity donated genre memorabilia. In April of 2015 Green also helped raise $7,000.00 for "Save A Yorkie Rescue" at the Monstermania convention in New Jersey by auctioning himself off for a date with a fan and auctioning off a screen-used prop hatchet. While on stage during the auction event, Green stated that it was the companionship of his own Yorkie "Arwen" that got him through the various personal tragedies he underwent in 2014. "You're not just saving the lives of these wonderful dogs, you're also very likely saving the lives of the people who will adopt them." Adam Green and Joe Lynch also put on an annual 48-hour live marathon of their Movie Crypt podcast to benefit "Save A Yorkie Rescue." The two filmmakers and "Holliston" co-stars stay on the air live for an entire weekend with celebrity guests joining them around the clock providing live comedy, film commentaries, script readings, and interviews to raise money for the dog rescue through donations from their audience. The Movie Crypt marathon raised $14,000.00 in 2016 and $24,000.00 in 2017, saving hundreds of abused and abandoned dogs that were in dire need of medical care and foster homes.
At the time of this posting Adam Green is developing Season 3 of "Holliston," working on a new TV series called "Killer Pizza" which is being produced by Chris Columbus, working on his next feature film project, and writing his next record with "Haddonfield" as well as working on many other projects. He lives in Los Angeles with his dog "Arwen" and his cat "Tyler." An avid music fan he has been known to follow bands on tour such as "Aerosmith," "Metallica," and "Guns N Roses." "Twisted Sister" is his favorite band of all time and 1982's "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" remains his most favorite film. He is active on Twitter and Instagram at @Adam_Fn_Green and he also personally responds to his fans on his public Facebook page: Facebook.com/AdamFnGreen.
Biography submitted to IMDB in May 2016. Updated in March 2018.- Location Management
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Born in 1981, Adam Turk is a film scout based in Los Angeles that has been able to apply his skills to some of Hollywood's biggest feature films. Through his hard work and dedication, Adam has been able to work on globally recognized movies and TV shows such as Top Gun 2 (2022), Tenet (2020), Army Of The Dead (2021), Us (2019), Homecoming (2018), Reverie (2018), Animal Kingdom (2022), The Prom (2020), and Ballers (2019). His passion for the film industry came at a young age through the form of 1980's and 1990's B films whose influence ultimately helped direct the course of his career. This path has recently led to national accolades as he and his team were a finalist for the COLA Awards (California On Location Award). After starting in the production office for the TV show Reverie (2018), he switched career paths to be able to focus on the visual and location aspect of the production. Through his exceptional work on a few smaller movies and TV shows, Adam was able to land a position as a location scout on Jordan Peele's horror blockbuster, Us (2019). This helped to jump start his role as a full time location scout and allowed for more major roles such as working on Top Gun 2 (2022). Adam currently lives with his wife and son in their home in Los Angeles, California. His current goal for the future is to be able to work internationally as a film scout so that he can utilize his love of travel to be able to find breathtaking locations that instantly draw the audience into the world on the big screen.- Art Department
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Adriana Sharp was born in Argentina in October of 1967. She, along with her parents, immigrated to America when she was 2. She spent her early years in New York before her family settled in northern California. Her mother taught her to knit and sew at age 7, a skill that has served her well throughout her life. At an early age it became clear that Adriana had artistic talent. She spent her free time making professional looking doll clothes and even took small sewing jobs as early as age 10.
Adriana began her film career in 1996 working in set decorating and as a scenic painter for theater, film and television. But her "Passion for Fashion" soon brought her to positions in the wardrobe department. Adriana certainly found her niche. With a keen eye and an intense work ethic, Adriana betters every project that she is associated with. Adriana still lives and works in northern California with her husband Brian.- Actress
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Agnes Edith Kiss was the first American born in her family. Her mother Eva Albert was born in Gyergyoujfalu Romania (Erdély) and fled Budapest Hungary during the Russian invasion of 1956. Her mother bravely at age 15 hopped on a train with the families grocery money after hearing on the radio of the invasion, if your smart you'll leave now, she later was reunited with her family in South Africa via Switzerland where the America Red Cross was assisting war refugees. Her father Oscar Antal Kiss was a lieutenant in the Hungarian Air Force, he performed stage acting/Theater in Benoni South Africa where he met Eva. Agnes's brother's Attila Otto (Andy) and Antal Laszlo (Tony) we're born in Johannesburg South Africa and the family moved to the United States on a ship from Africa New York City in the late 1960's.
Agnes Kiss went to catholic school in Wharton and Denville NJ and later moved to Boca Raton Florida in her high schools years, she studied television and radio broadcasting in Ft. Lauderdale, than lived in Snoqualmie Pass Washington and later moved to Budapest Hungary to work as a translator and sales of importing American beauty products for the family business. Her two daughters Lauren & Ashley Ell were born in Budapest. In the late 90's After returning to the USA her daughters were very young, Agnes did background work on Law and Order, Sex and the city, 28 days changing lanes and other various shows. She realized she needed a better paying job and put her acting passions on the back burner, she embarked on a 25 year successful career as an IT headhunter. As fate would have it with the support of her family and Entrepreneurial husband Brian Piccolo she was able to Pursue her passions for the performing arts full time in her early 50's.
In the 2020's Landing speaking roles in independent films " You wouldn't understand", "Out of the cattle", "Kings club"," You wouldn't understand" and extra work on PowerBook III Raising Kanan, Marvel's Daredevil, Long bright River" her dreams reignited after taking more classes at Strand Studios in Hackettstown and Mayo performing arts of Morristown. Agnes likes to be known as a kind generous loving funny down to earth free spirit who loves adventure travel who stands firm on sobriety and human rights especially when it's comes to defending children & victims of pedophilia and sex trafficking. Agnes speaks both English and Hungarian fluently .- Actor
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Akira Takarada was born on April 29, 1934, in Chongjin, North Korea. He rose from the Toho New Face program to become 1 of the most recognizable men associated with the original Godzilla series, though he appeared in only 6 installments. He began in 1949 w/ a small role in When the Liberty Bell Rang and several other small roles. His big break came as navy diver Hideto Ogata in Godzilla (1954). He soon became recognizable for his persona as the cocky, slightly cynical urban male & making him a very successful actor. Throughout his life, he was a celebrity in Japan through his appearances in TV dramas, quiz shows & commercials.- Actor
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Alan Bean first started out as a Navy Test Pilot, he flew over 5500 hours, and flew 27 different aircrafts. Alan Bean became an astronaut in 1963. But wasn't picked for any missions for sometime. It wasn't until fellow astronaut, Charles Conrad (aka Pete), asked him if he wanted to take part on Apollo 12 after the death of C.C. Williams, whom Bean went on to replace. On Apollo 12, he was The Lunar Excursion Module pilot (LEM Pilot) and became the 4th man to walk on the moon in November of 1969. He flew again on Skylab 3, and was in space for 59 days in 1973. Alan retired from NASA in 1981. He is now an artist, painting his experiences on the moon. He released a book of his artwork in 1998, titled "Apollo: An Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer/Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean".- Alan Saperstein (born February 1, 1959) is an American Internet entrepreneur in the concert video and digital media field. He is recognized for his accomplishments in both the multi-camera, live concert, film business, as well as the streaming media field. Alan is recognized as the first person to broadcast video on the Internet in a commercial application in 1993.
Alan was born 1 February 1959 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1981 with a degree in Cinematography and went to work for NFL Films as Director of the Entertainment Division. Saperstein used off-season National Football League cameramen to cover large multi-camera arena rock performances by artists such as Journey, Billy Squier, Cyndi Lauper, Ronnie Dio and Bruce Springsteen for major record labels and MTV. Saperstein was the first music video producer to employee the use of the Skycam camera system in a live concert setting for Billy Squier. Today he is called upon to handle and facilitate unusually large live streaming events for very high-profile entertainment, corporate and government clients. He produced one of the largest grossing online pay-per-view concerts in history, The Allman Brothers Band 40th Anniversary, live streamed from the Beacon theatre NYC - Visual Effects
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Albert Whitlock was one of the most skilled matte artists in the history of motion pictures, with his work seen in more than 500 films and television shows. His very long career began in London in 1929, when, at the age of 14, he was a fetch-and-carry fellow at Gaumont Studios. He went on to build sets and worked as a grip. Trained as a sign painter, Whitlock began a life-long association with Alfred Hitchcock, doing all of the signs for The 39 Steps (1935) and then assisting in the miniature effects for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). The two maintained a close personal and professional relationship, working together upon several films through Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot (1976).
During World War II Al started doing matte work. His first solo glass shot was a ballroom scene appearing in The Bad Lord Byron (1949). He apprenticed alongside Peter Ellenshaw, under W. Percy Day (aka Pop). Admiring Al's work done within Walt Disney's British studio in the early 50s, Walt Disney, convinced Al to re-locate to America. Upon doing so in 1954, his first work was designing the titles for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). Ellenshaw had preceded him, and was in charge of the Disney matte department.
At Disney, Whitlock successfully mastered his impressionistic approach to matte painting. Like the works of French Impressionism, they are not detailed upon close inspection. However, on the screen they are very realistic. He remained at Disney for seven years, helping with the design of Disneyland as well as film work.
Moving to Universal in 1961, and would head up the matte department there. Many considered Al the greatest master of the matte starting from this time to his retirement. He efficiently aided film productions by being able to supply masterful effects for films varying greatly in budget, often taking very little time to do so. His effects for the $10 million feature The Hindenburg (1975), cost just $180,000 (Paramount spent more than $20 million for the special effects on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) just four years later). Like other matte artists, he blocked-out parts of shots into which the painting was inserted. However, Al developed a trademark technique of doing it all on the original negative, so his matte work was all first generation. The original negative of the live action was left undeveloped except for a portion used to guide the creation of the matte painting. The painting was then exposed on the negative and combined with the original photography. He also typically added moving elements such as clouds or waves to give more life to mattes (a skyline of Manhattan from an aerial perspective in The Hindenburg (1975) is a good example of this). The opening shot of 1930s Chicago in The Sting (1973) incorporated an elevated train into a skyline matte painting with live-action traffic, buses and pedestrians. For the dust-storm sequence in Bound for Glory (1976), three large balls of cotton dyed the color of dust were mounted on cardboard and rotated at different speeds. Portions of each matte were half-exposed, once with dust moving toward the camera and then with it moving away from the camera. This produced the effect of eddying dust.
After all the other studios closed their matte departments, Universal frequently loaned out Whitlock and his staff. Working with director of photography Conrad L. Hall, Whitlock produced matte paintings for the climactic scenes of The Day of the Locust (1975) at Paramount. Mel Brooks gave Al the chance to act in High Anxiety (1977) and cast him as a used chariot dealer in History of the World: Part I (1981).
Whitlock retired from Universal in 1985, but continued working on occasional productions for a few more years.- Born in Puerto Rico to Cuban immigrants, Father Alberto Cutie is an Episcopal priest and the first clergy person of any denomination to host a secular TV Talk Show. His show presently airs nationally on MEGA TV and is filmed in Miami, FL where he lives. Father Cutie worked with Telemundo from 1998-2001.
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Alex Braverman began his career as a documentary cameraman, filming a diverse array of subjects including homicide investigations, wildlife migrations, military training, and celebrity chefs. Since pivoting to producing and directing, his credits include the celebrated news magazine series "Vice on HBO", the Netflix Series "Diagnosis" based on the New York Times Magazine column, and "Waffles and Mochi", a children's food and culture documentary series produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. Alex's work has been recognized with five Emmy nominations and a Peabody Award. His feature documentary "Thank You Very Much", about famed performance artist Andy Kaufman, won the Venice Classics award for best documentary at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.- Alex was born in the middle of the woods, and was raised by a group of Mongoose until the age of 16. At 16 he emancipated from his overbearing Mongoose parents, and set his sight on Hollywood. From age 16 to 25 he hiked through the wilderness, encountering many wacky characters along his way. When he finally arrived at Hollywood, he decided he no longer wanted to be an actor, and instead wanted to seek the truth out there. He spent another 15 years walking to Area 51, where he found there was a raid currently occurring, by complete coincidence. Not one to miss a good opportunity, Alex used the distraction of Ancient Aliens to break into the base and break free all the Aliens. He discovered one family that claimed to be his parents. When he was a wee bab, the alien family accidentally dropped him out of their UFO, and have been looking for him ever since. Now reunited with his family, Alex can be found sailing the cosmos, looking for more adventure, and a chance to bring the concept of being grateful to millions of planets.
- Alex graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor's degree in Business and Law. Alex's first television appearance was a co-starring role on the CBS medical drama "Code Black." He also co-starred on Amazon's "Transparent", FOX's "The Mick" and NBC's "Superstore". Alex recurred on Hulu's series "All Night." Aside from acting, Alex is very much involved in the community and has been a vital part of the anti-bullying campaign, To Be Kind Inc., for many years.
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Alexander Golitzen was a legendary art director, a field in which most worker's names remain relatively unknown. His prolific work in hundreds of films, predominantly at Universal, made his name familiar to many film-goers, at least among those who read credits. Possibly only Cedric Gibbons, at MGM, shared a similar fame. Golitzen was nominated for Academy Awards fourteen times, winning on three occasions.
Golitzen's family, noble descendants of princes of Lithuania, fled Moscow following the Russian Revolution, so he found himself in America at the age of 16. The family settled in Seattle and Alexander earned a degree in architecture from the University of Washington. He moved to Los Angeles in 1933 and became an assistant to the fellow Russian-born art director, Alexander Toluboff at MGM working as an illustrator for Queen Christina (1933). He became an art director in 1935, and went on to work at various studios for independent producers, including Samuel Goldwyn and Walter Wanger. His older sister, Natalie Galitzine, appeared in two Hollywood films, including Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings.
Golitzen was Oscar-nominated for his work on Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940) before Wanger brought Golitzen to work with him at Universal on the film Arabian Nights (1942) for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. He continued to show his flair for the design of Technicolor films at this studio, and won his first academy award the very next year for Phantom of the Opera (1943).
In 1954 Alexander was named Supervising Art Director at Universal, a title he held until his retirement in 1974. Although considered a genius for his work in color films, with his contributions adding considerably to the impact of diverse film subjects, including westerns, musicals, and even the science fiction film, This Island Earth (1955), he was also adept in black & white, earning an Oscar for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Golitzen also did some notable work for television series such as The Twilight Zone (1959) and One Step Beyond (1959). He retired on a high note, with his very last work, on the film Earthquake (1974), being Oscar-nominated.- Producer
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Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then immediately started to film everything he saw, showing it afterwards to everyone. In his teen years, films were his hobby. Sometimes he said to his mother he would go to a friend's home, when in fact he would go to the cinema. His ambition was to know every theatre in the city. Near his house there were two studios, Studios Churubusco and Studios 212. After finishing school, Cuarón decided to study cinema right away. He tried to study at C.C.C. (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica) but wasn't accepted because at that time they weren't accepting students under twenty-four years old. His mother didn't support that idea of cinema, so he studied philosophy in the morning and in the afternoon he went to the C.U.E.C. (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos). During that time he met many people who would later become his collaborators and friends. One of them was Luis Estrada. Cuaron also became good friends with Carlos Marcovich and Emmanuel Lubezki. Luis Estrada directed a short called "Vengance is Mine", on which Alfonso and Emmanuel collaborated. The film was in English, a fact which bothered many teachers of the C.U.E.C. such as Marcela Fernández Violante. The disagreement caused such arguments that in 1985, Alfonso was expelled from the university.
During his time studying at C.U.E.C. he met Mariana Elizondo, and with her he had his first son, Jonás Cuarón. After Alfonso was expelled, he thought he could never be a director and so went on to work in a Museum so he could sustain his family. One day, José Luis García Agraz and Fernando CáMara went to the museum and made an offer to Cuarón. They asked him to work as cable person in "La víspera (1982)", a job which was to prove to be his salvation. After that he was assistant director in Garcia Agraz's "Nocaut (1984)", as well as numerous other films.
He was also second unit director in "Gaby: A True Story (1987)", and co-wrote and directed some episodes in the series "A Hora Marcada (1967)". One New Year's Eve, he decided he would not continue to be an assistant director, and with his brother Carlos started writing what would be his first feature film: "Love in the Time of Hysteria (1991)" (Love in the time of Hysteria). After the screenplay was written, the problem became how to get financial backing for the movie. I.M.C.I.N.E. (Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia), which supports movies financially, had already decided which projects it would support that year, much to Alfonso's initial chagrin. However, the director of one of those already-chosen projects was unable to direct it, so his project was canceled, and "Sólo con tu pareja" took its place. Despite this being chosen, there was a lot of tension between Alfonso and the I.M.C.I.N.E. executives. Nevertheless, after the movie was finished, it was a huge success. In Toronto festival the films won many awards, and Alfonso started to be noticed by Hollywood producers. Sydney Pollack was the first one to invite him to shoot in Hollywood. He proposed a feature film to be directed by Alfonso, but the project didn't work and was canceled. Alfonso moved to Los Angeles without anything concrete, and stayed with some friends, as he had no money. Soon after that, Pollack called him again to direct an episode called "Murder, Obliquely (1993)" of the series "Fallen Angels (1993)", that was the first job he had in U.S., and also the first time he worked with Alan Rickman.
After a while, and no real directing jobs, Alfonso wanted to direct something as he needed money. He finally signed a contract with Warner Brothers to direct the film Addicted to Love (1995). However, one night, he read the screenplay for another film, A Little Princess (1995) and fell in love with it. He talked to Warner Brothers and after some meetings he gave up directing "Addicted to Love" in order to do "A Little Princess". Even thought it wasn't a great box office success, the film received two nominations for the Oscars, and won many other awards. After "A Little Princess" Alfonso developed a project with Richard Gere starring. The project was canceled, but Cuarón got an offer from Twentieth Century Fox to direct the modern adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations (1998). He initially didn't want to direct it but the studio insisted, and in the end he accepted it. The experience was very painful and difficult for him mainly because there was never a definitive screenplay.
He then reunited with producer Jorge Vergara and founded both Anhelo Productions and Moonson Productions. Anhelo's first picture was also Alfonso's next film, the erotic road movie "And Your Mother Too (2001)", which was a huge success. During the promotion of the film in Venice, Alfonso met the cinema critic Annalisa Bugliani. They started dating and married that same year. "Children of Men (2006)" was to be Alfonso's next film, a futuristic, dystopian story. During the pre-production of the film, Warner Brothers invited Alfonso to direct the third Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)", an offer which he accepted after some consideration. The film would prove to be the greatest box office success of his career.
In 2003, he had a daughter named Bu Cuaron, and in February 2005 another son, called Olmo Teodoro Cuarón. Alfonso Cuarón signed a three-year first-look deal with Warner Brothers, which allowed his films to be distributed world-wide. He directed one five-minute segment of the anthology film Paris, I Love You (2006) with Nick Nolte and Ludivine Sagnier. His next project, the futuristic film Children of Men (2006) with Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 having been nominated for three Academy Awards. After his youngest son was diagnosed with autism and the divorce from Annalisa Bugliani he took a break from directing and settled in London where he plans to work on his next projects.
In 2013, Alfonso directed the space thriller Gravity (2013), which would go win 7 academy awards.
Alfonso is the only filmmaker to have ever won twice for a clean sweep for the awards, for "Gravity" and "Roma", for Best Director at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.- Actress
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Ali Landry broke onto the scene and gained instant fame as "the Doritos Girl", when she was featured in a commercial for Frito Lay during the 1998 Super Bowl telecast. The next day, the NY Post hailed in a cover story "A star was born during Superbowl XXXII". Later that year, she was named one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful".
Following the success of the commercial campaign, Ali, who was crowned Miss USA 1996, made the transition from modeling to acting with a variety of film and television roles. Most recently, she co-starred in the feature film Bella (2006), which won the Toronto Film Festival Award in 2006, in addition to three seasons on the hit UPN Network series Eve (2003).
Other television appearances included recurring roles on Felicity (1998), Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (1998), Sunset Beach (1997) and Popular (1999). Her hosting credits have included the weekly music-talk show Farmclub.com (2001), Cooking with Mom (2003) and Full Frontal Fashion (2002) on WE: Women's Entertainment, and NBC's Spy TV (2001). Plus, Ali was an MTV staple in the summer of 1999, appearing in the popular video for 98 Degrees' single, "I Do". In feature films, she co-starred in Beautiful (2000), directed by Sally Field, in 2000.
A trained dancer in jazz, tap and ballet for 15 years, Landry hails from Beaux Bridge, Louisiana. She also enjoys kickboxing and gymnastics. Ali currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, director Alejandro Monteverde, and their daughter, Estela.- Make-Up Department
Stylish, outspoken, and sometimes controversial, there's no denying that Alison Kenyon is an attention-grabbing and memorable personality- not to mention a kick-ass body painter.
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Connect, follow the blog, and book Alison for public appearances, speaking engagements, conventions and of course body painting.- Born in Ohio on November 15, 1983, Alonda Shevette is an African American actress, her career started at the age of 6 where she performed in almost every school play and after school program she got her hands on. Her dream was to act and sing. She wanted so badly to be apart of the Mickey Mouse Club as a child, but being from a poor family Alonda's parents couldn't afford to follow through on it and her audition tape was never mailed in; however, her dream still lives on today appearing in films such as: Deadly Underground Studios "The Vamp Wore White" directed by Gwendolyn Kiste, Mythopolis Pictures' horror film/graphic novel trailer promo "DBA/Hollow Eyed Mary" directed by Tony Kern and written by Andre Duza, Strange Stuff Production's "Death Of The Dead" directed by Gary King, Marvel Studios' "The Avengers(2012)" directed by Joss Whedon, PBS/Ohio University's Jean P."We Wear The Mask" music video directed by Frederick Lewis, and several industrial films and commercials throughout Ohio. Alonda now resides in NYC and Ohio where she hopes to expand her career.
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Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as smaller amounts of Danish, Swiss-German, and Norwegian, ancestry.
Adams sang in the school choir at Douglas County High School and was an apprentice dancer at a local dance company, with the ambition of becoming a ballerina. However, she worked as a greeter at The Gap and as a Hooters hostess to support herself before finding work as a dancer at Boulder's Dinner Theatre and Country Dinner Playhouse in such productions as "Brigadoon" and "A Chorus Line". It was there that she was spotted by a Minneapolis dinner-theater director who asked her to move to Chanhassen, Minnesota for more regional dinner theatre work.
Nursing a pulled muscle that kept her from dancing, she was free to audition for a part in Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), which was filming nearby in Minnesota. During the filming, Kirstie Alley encouraged her to move to Los Angeles, where she soon won a part in the Fox television version of the film, Cruel Intentions (1999), in the part played in the film by Sarah Michelle Gellar, "Kathryn Merteuil". Although three episodes were filmed, the troubled series never aired. Instead, parts of the episodes were cobbled together and released as the direct-to-video Cruel Intentions 2 (2000). After more failed television spots, she landed a major role in Catch Me If You Can (2002), playing opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. But this did not provide the break-through she might have hoped for, with no work being offered for about a year. She eventually returned to television, and joined the short-lived series, Dr. Vegas (2004).
Her role in the low-budget independent film Junebug (2005) (which was shot in 21 days) got her real attention, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as other awards. The following year, her ability to look like a wide-eyed Disney animated heroine helped her to be chosen from about 300 actresses auditioning for the role of "Giselle" in the animated/live-action feature film, Enchanted (2007), which would prove to be her major break-through role. Her vivacious yet innocent portrayal allowed her to use her singing and dancing talents. Her performance garnered a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Adams next appeared in the major production, Charlie Wilson's War (2007), and went on to act in the independent film, Sunshine Cleaning (2008), which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Her role as "Sister James" in Doubt (2008) brought her a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild award, and a British Academy Film award. She appeared as Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and as a post-9/11 hot line counselor, aspiring writer, amateur cook and blogger in Julie & Julia (2009). In the early 2010s, she starred with Jason Segel in The Muppets (2011), with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012), and alongside Clint Eastwood and Justin Timberlake in Trouble with the Curve (2012). She played reporter Lois Lane in Man of Steel (2013) and con artist Sydney Prosser in American Hustle (2013), before portraying real-life artist Margaret Keane in Tim Burton's biopic Big Eyes (2014).
In 2016, she reprised her role as Lane in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and headlined Denis Villeneuve's science fiction drama Arrival (2016) and Tom Ford's dark thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). In 2018, she received another Oscar nomination, her sixth, for starring as Lynne Cheney in the biographical drama Vice (2018), opposite Christian Bale as Dick Cheney.- Additional Crew
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Andrew is a well rounded entertainment professional. He is a pop recording artist, television and radio personality who has hosted and produced numerous programs. Andrew is also heard on multiple Southern California radio stations. Andrew Caravella is known for his work on Angels Garage (2017), Retro Rock-It TV Show (2011) and Uncovered in the Archives (2018).- Andrew "Andy" Rutledge was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa, which is directly across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska. Andy attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, IA. Andy now calls Seattle, WA home. Andy was employed by the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office in Council Bluffs, IA from 2006 to 2012, when he moved to Seattle, WA. Andy was able to attain the status of Corporal and even worked as an Investigator in the Criminal Investigations Division while working at the Sheriff's Office. Andy was greatly missed when he resigned from law enforcement and moved to Seattle. Andy still calls Council Bluffs his home and has contact with Deputies he worked with at the Sheriff's Office. Andy is an avid music lover and talented musician as well. Andy plays guitar and drums, but has yet to get his big break in the music industry.
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One of Hollywood's most private and guarded leading men, Andy Garcia has created iconic characters while at the same time staying true to his acting roots and personal projects.
Garcia was born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez on April 12, 1956, in Havana, Cuba, to Amelie Menéndez, a teacher of English, and René García Núñez, an attorney and avocado farmer. Garcia's family was relatively affluent. However, when he was two years old, Fidel Castro came to power, and the family fled to Miami Beach. Forced to work menial jobs for a while, the family started a fragrance company that was eventually worth more than a million dollars. He attended Natilus Junior High School and later at Miami Beach Senior High School. Andy was a popular student in school, a good basketball player and good-looking. He dreamed of playing professional baseball. In his senior year, though, he contracted mononucleosis and hepatitis, and unable to play sports, he turned his attention to acting.
He studied acting with Jay W. Jensen. Jensen was a South Florida legend, counting among his numerous students, Brett Ratner, Roy Firestone, Mickey Rourke, and Luther Campbell. Following his positive high school experiences in acting, he continued his drama studies at Florida International University.
Soon, he was headed out to Hollywood. His first break came as a gang member on the very first episode of the popular TV series Hill Street Blues (1981). His role as a cocaine kingpin in 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) put him on the radar of Brian De Palma, who was casting for his gangster classic The Untouchables (1987). At first, he envisioned Garcia as Al Capone's sadistic henchman Frank Nitti, but fearing typecasting as a gangster, Garcia campaigned for the role of "George Stone", the Italian cop who gets accepted into Eliot Ness' famous band of lawmen. Garcia's next notable role came in Black Rain (1989) by acclaimed director Ridley Scott, as the partner of police detective Michael Douglas. He then co-starred with Richard Gere in Internal Affairs (1990), directed by Mike Figgis. In 1989, Francis Ford Coppola was casting for the highly anticipated third installment of his "Godfather" films. The Godfather Part III (1990) included one of the most sought-after roles in decades, the hot-headed son of "Sonny Corleone" and mob protégé of "Michael Corloene", "Vincent Mancini". A plum role for any young rising star, the role was campaigned for by a host of actors. Val Kilmer, Alec Baldwin, Vincent Spano, Charlie Sheen, and even Robert De Niro (who wanted the role changed to accommodate his age) were all beaten out by the up-and-coming Garcia. His performance was Oscar-nominated as Best Supporting Actor, and secured him international stardom and a place in cinematic history. Now a leading man, he starred in such films as Jennifer 8 (1992) and Hero (1992). He won raves for his role as the husband of Meg Ryan in When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) and gave another charismatic gangster turn in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995). He then returned in Night Falls on Manhattan (1996), directed by Sidney Lumet, as well as portraying legendary mobster Lucky Luciano in Hoodlum (1997). In perhaps his most mainstream role, he portrayed a cop in the action film Desperate Measures (1998). Garcia then starred in a few lower-profile projects that didn't do much for his career, but things turned around in 2001, with the first of many projects being his role as a cold casino owner in Ocean's Eleven (2001), directed by Steven Soderbergh. Seeing his removal from Cuba as involuntary, Garcia is proud of his heritage which influences his life and work. One such case is his portrayal of renowned Cuban trumpet player Arturo Sandoval in For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000). He is an extremely private man, and strong believer in old-fashioned chivalry. Married to his wife, Maria Victoria, since 1982, the couple has three daughters. One of the most talented leading men around, Garcia has had a unique career of staying true to his own ideals and thoughts on acting. While some would have used some of the momentum he has acquired at different points in his career to get rich off lightweight projects, Garcia has stayed true to stories and films that aspire to something more. But with a presence and style that never seem old, a respect from directors and film buffs, alike, Andy Garcia will be remembered for a long time in film history.- Editor
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Anna Auster is a New York based documentary film editor. Over her 20 plus year career, she has worked with several award-winning filmmakers on projects for Netflix, PBS, Showtime, National Geographic, and Discovery. She recently made her directorial debut with the short documentary Holky: The Steven Holcomb Story. Anna was born in Aspen, Colorado.- Director
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Anthony Lucero's directorial debut feature film, East Side Sushi, was picked up by HBO after screening at the Miami International Film Festival where it was also nominated for Best Screenplay. Written by Lucero, this drama/comedy indie favorite garnered 15 film festival awards nationwide, 8 Diosa de Plata award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, has a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score and has the distinction of being listed as one of the "Top 10 Films of 2015" by SF Weekly and one of "The Most Overlooked Films of 2015" from the Los Angeles Times. In 2017, Lucero was selected as a U.S. Envoy and screened East Side Sushi at six U.S. Embassies and Consulates throughout Japan.
Born and raised in Oakland, Lucero draws on his Chicano roots to create stories that are multicultural and socially relevant. After receiving his B.A. in Film from San Francisco State University, Lucero spent over a decade working in visual effects at George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic, working on such films as Star Wars Episode I & II, Ironman, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Avengers.
Lucero is an alum of the 2016-2018 Disney/ABC Diverse Directors Fellowship Program. His screenplay, Billy Dreams of Bagging, was a 2019 Sundance Development Track semi finalist.- Arlene Martel is well-known to Star Trek (1966) fans as Spock's Vulcan bride, T'Pring, in the episode, Amok Time (1967). Born Arline Greta Sax to Austrian Jewish immigrants on April 14, 1936 in New York City, she spent her early years in one of the poorest slums in the Bronx. When her mother's boss saw her poor living conditions, he personally underwrote her attendance at an upper-crust boarding school in Connecticut. At age 12, Arlene assumed personal responsibility to audition for New York's famed High School of the Performing Arts. Not only did she gain entrance, she also went on to excel at the school--graduating with the school's top drama award. Her professional career began in her teens when she landed the role of Esther in the Broadway production of "Uncle Willie", also starring Norman Fell.
After heading to Hollywood, Martel began making guest appearances on television series such as The Untouchables (1959), Route 66 (1960) and The Twilight Zone (1959). She had the recurring role of Tiger on the situation comedy Hogan's Heroes (1965). Her facility with accents and dialects enabled her to play a wide variety of characters, earning her the nickname of "The Chameleon". Arlene's relationship with James Dean is chronicled in Joe Hyams' biography, "The James Dean Story". Married and divorced three times, Arlene had three children: Adam Palmer, Avra Douglas and Jodaman Douglas. Martel died at age 78 of a heart attack on August 12, 2014 in Santa Monica, California. She had battled breast cancer some years earlier. - Born in Waycross, Georgia. Stage and silent screen actor in handsome leading man roles. Navy veteran. Albertson was active on Broadway from 1919-26, appearing in 6 productions. Committed suicide in New York City on October 26, 1926, by drinking Lysol after the close of a stage show in Chicago. He was married to actress Esther Howard, who in 1926 was appearing in "Sunny" at the New Amsterdam Theatre and appeared in films from 1930-1952.
- August Bridges is an actor born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Born April 1st, 1998, he is known for his role in Avocado Toast (2021), where the film won an Ensemble Cast award in the Utah Film Festival. His career started in theater but has since transitioned to film and television.
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Barbara was born on 18 April 1922, as one of two children. As a young girl, Ms. Hale intended to major in art and drawing but to work her way through The Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, she began her professional career as a model for a comic strip called "Ramblin' Bill." Barbara is best remembered as Della Street, long-time secretary to attorney Perry Mason on the TV series Perry Mason (1957) from 1957 to 1966 and again in over 25 Perry Mason TV movies from 1985 to 1995. She married actor Bill Williams in 1946. He was best remembered for his portrayal of Kit Carson in The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951) from 1951 to 1955. The couple had three children - two daughters: Jody (born in 1947), Juanita (born in 1953), and in 1951 a son William Katt who is the spitting image of his father. William Katt is best known for his character, Ralph Hinkley, the klutzy superhero in The Greatest American Hero from 1981 to 1986.- Writer
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Barbara Ziel attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City (1991). After AADA, she worked at the Original Improvisation Comedy Club in Hell's Kitchen until it closed in the mid-'90s.
Barbara then transitioned to the corporate world working on IT teams in publishing, entertainment, and advertising agencies. She spent time with NBC Universal, Time Inc., and CBS Interactive among other Fortune 500 companies.
During this time, she continued to work on creative projects including performing with Gotham City Improv in the short form program. Her production experience includes production work on the off-Broadway production "Cafe A Go Go" in New York, the feature-length independent film "Friendship Hotel" and co-writing a digital short for NBC Universal, "Oralick Records".- Actor
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Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).
Benicio was born on February 19, 1967 in San Germán, Puerto Rico, the son of lawyer parents Fausta Genoveva Sanchez Rivera and Gustavo Adolfo Del Toro Bermudez. His mother died when he was young, and his father moved the family to a farm in Pennsylvania. A basketball player with an interest in acting, he decided to follow the family way and study business at the University of California in San Diego. A class in acting resulted in his being bitten by the acting bug, and he subsequently dropped out and began studying with legendary acting teacher Stella Adler in Los Angeles and at the Circle in the Square Acting School in New York City. Telling his parents that he was taking courses in business, Del Toro hid his new studies from his family for a little while.
During the late 1980s, he made several television appearances, most notably in an episode of Miami Vice (1984) and in the NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (1990). Del Toro's big-screen career got off to a slower start, however--his first role was Duke the Dog-Faced Boy in Big Top Pee-wee (1988). However, things looked better when he landed the role of Dario, the vicious henchman in the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989). Surprising his co-stars at age 21, Del Toro was the youngest actor ever to portray a Bond villain. However, the potential break was spoiled as the picture turned out to be one of the most disappointing Bond films ever; this was lost amid bigger summer competition.
Benicio gave creditable performances in many overlooked films for the next several years, such as The Indian Runner (1991), Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) and Money for Nothing (1993). His roles in Fearless (1993) and China Moon (1994) gained him more critical notices, and 1995 proved to be the first "Year of Benicio" as he gave a memorable performance in Swimming with Sharks (1994) before taking critics and film buffs by storm as the mumbling, mysterious gangster in The Usual Suspects (1995), directed by Bryan Singer. Del Toro won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role in the Oscar-winning film.
Staying true to his independent roots, he next gave a charismatic turn as cold-blooded gangster Gaspare Spoglia in The Funeral (1996) directed by Abel Ferrara. He also appeared as Benny Dalmau in Basquiat (1996), directed by artist friend Julian Schnabel. That year also marked his first truly commercial film, as he played cocky Spanish baseball star Juan Primo in The Fan (1996), which starred Robert De Niro. Del Toro took his first leading man role in Excess Baggage (1997), starring and produced by Alicia Silverstone. Hand-picked by Silverstone, Del Toro's performance was pretty much the only thing critics praised about the film, and showed the level of consciousness he was beginning to have in the minds of film fans.
He took a leading role with his good friend Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), co-written and directed by the legendary Terry Gilliam. Gaining 40 pounds for the role of Dr. Gonzo, the drug-addicted lawyer to sportswriter Raoul Duke, Benicio immersed himself totally in the role. Using his method acting training so far as to burn himself with cigarettes for a scene, this was a trying time for Del Toro. The harsh critical reviews proved tough on him, as he felt he had given his all for the role and been dismissed. Many saw the crazed, psychotic performance as a confirmation of the rumors and overall weirdness that people seemed to place on Del Toro.
Taking a short break after the ordeal, 2000 proved to be the second "Year of Benicio". He first appeared in The Way of the Gun (2000), directed by friend and writer Christopher McQuarrie. Then he went to work for actor's director Steven Soderbergh in Traffic (2000). A complex and graphic film, this nonetheless became a widespread success and Oscar winner. His role as conflicted Mexican policeman Javier Rodriguez functions as the movie's real heart amid an all-star ensemble cast, and many praised this as the year's best performance, a sentiment validated by a Screen Actor's Guild Award for "Best Actor". He also gave a notable performance in Snatch (2000) directed by Guy Ritchie, which was released several weeks later, and The Pledge (2001) directed by Sean Penn. Possessing sleepy good looks reminiscent of James Dean or Marlon Brando, Del Toro has often jokingly been referred to as the "Spanish Brad Pitt".
With his newfound celebrity, Del Toro has become a sort of heartthrob, being voted one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" as well as "Most Eligible Bachelors." A favorite of film fans for years for his diverse and "cool guy" gangster roles, he has become a mainstream favorite, respected for his acting skills and choices. So far very careful in his projects and who he works with, Del Toro can boast an impressive resume of films alongside some of the most influential and talented people in the film business.- Actor
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Bernardo Cubría is a writer from Mexico City. He is currently working on The Untitled Ryan Garcia screenplay that will be directed by Gina Rodriguez. His play "The Giant Void in My Soul" was nominated for best play at the 2019 Ovation Awards, The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards and the StageRaw Awards. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son where he is a proud member of Ammunition Theatre Company. (July 26, 2020)- Additional Crew
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For decades Bob Corff has been the authority on voice technique in Los Angeles. Corff mastered his voice coaching techniques during a long-lived acting career. The actor/singer played lead roles in many acclaimed stage productions including: Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar," Claude in "Hair," and Danny in "Grease." Bob first started singing in a garage band named "The Purple Gang," which eventually recorded with MGM records. Soon thereafter, he began singing on Broadway and eventually started acting. He appeared in over 100 episodes of network television.
He was 12 years into his acting career when the actors strike hit in the 1980s. At that time he ventured into coaching and became one of the most sought-after teachers in Hollywood. Bob has since taught hundreds of A-list celebs. (see "official site" for complete list)- Actor
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Brent Brooks is an actor/ director based in Atlanta Georgia. He owns and operates Blank Stage Productions, manages the Blank Page Screenwriting group and is a co-founder of Get Connected. As an actor Brent uses his 20 plus years of improvisational experience and archetypal work from his studies of "The Heroes Journey" to deliver his performances.- Actor
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Brian A McFadden was born Brian Andrew McFadden in San Francisco, CA March 23, 1975. He dabbled in acting & creative writing in high school and college and in 1999 acquired an Environmental Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley. From 2012-Present he has been "saving the environment one house at a time" as President of a Home Energy Contracting Company. He credits Al Gore & Leonardo DiCaprio for inspiring his interest in writing scripts that encourage social responsibility and developing & implementing a sustainable future via creative inspiration in art and film making.- Producer
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Brian A. Bernhard is a multi-award winning (EMMY, TELLY, various festivals) digital media strategist, producer, director, shooter, designer, illustrator, editor; who has been working in professional broadcast television, movies, motion-graphics & web-video for over fifteen years.
Brian A. Bernhard holds a B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University, with a major in sculpture and a minor in painting; as well as, an M.F.A. in Design and Technology from Parsons New School for Design.
He has created, produced, shot & edited many award winning television series, documentary projects, magazine shows, promotional packages, motion graphics and PSA's for clients such as: 20th Century FOX Studios, Dr. Mark Goulston, All Management Corporation, Plymptoons Studios, eCivis, CUNY TV 75, WNYE TV 25, ABC and many more.
Throughout his career he has interviewed & profiled hundreds of brilliant creative visionaries and has had the opportunity to pick the brains of some of the best minds in the world; as a result he has gained a unique perspective of life and professionalism in the creative production world.
He also has a natural ability to communicate well and collaborate with anyone. He is more then capable of functioning as a member of a strong production team or operating autonomously in order to craft compelling, sharable stories or huge strategic transmedia campaigns. project about the world of physical comedy, vaudeville, circus and clown called "A Fool's Idea". When he is not producing documentaries about brilliant artists, he somehow finds time to continue drawing, painting, shooting photography, occasionally writing music, and making experimental short fiction films.- Sound Department
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Brian D'Almeida is a filmmaker from Greenwich, CT. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Recording Arts & his Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from Full Sail University. Brian was Valedictorian of his Bachelor's & received an advanced achievement award on completion of his Master's degree.
During his spare time Brian volunteered to be production sound mixer & boom operator for student thesis projects & independent films. Using a sound rig consisting of a Sound Devices 788T, lav mics, & a shotgun mic he captured the on set dialogue from actors & necessary ambiance for post-production. By employing hidden lav techniques he managed to keep the microphones discreet whilst the camera was rolling and made sure the boom operator remained out of frame.
Brian now resides in Los Angeles where he works as a production sound mixer/boom operator for indie/feature films & corporate audio interviews.- Producer
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Brian McLaughlin is a producer of mainly narrative feature films. He has been a Producers Guild of America member since 2011, sponsored by the iconic Roger Corman. He is a mentor in the PGA Power of Diversity Master Workshop and a member of the PGA Education and Diversity committees.
He was born in Southern California but was never interested in a Hollywood career, although his grandmother, Madelyn McLaughlin, was a sculptor who created props for such movies as Alien (1979) (the alien), The Deep (1977) (the eel), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977), and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978).
Brian was a visiting film professor at the University of Notre Dame for the 2011-2012 academic year. Immediately prior to that, he was the media production advisor to General David Petraeus in Afghanistan. In that role, he produced several documentary shorts with Afghan crew.
He was a PAGE International Awards quarter-finalist for his feature screenplay, Scylla Dilemma, which he wrote under the tutelage of the yearlong Writers Guild Foundation's Veterans Writing Project. His mentors in that program included Karen Struck, April Fitzsimmons, Niceole R. Levy, Brian Anthony, and Timothy Wurtz. Scylla Dilemma was selected as one of ten projects in the 2017 PGA Power of Diversity Master Workshop, where Brian's mentors included Nic Novicki, Carrie Lynn Certa, and Olga Zhurzhenko, and workshop chairs Sasheen Artis and Julie Janata.
He was published in The Hollywood Reporter, January 29, 2016 issue, "Oscars' Diversity Dilemma: A Mathematical Solution to Parity in Voting."
Brian is an active member of Veterans in Media and Entertainment and is that organization's producers liaison. He produced a PSA for a veterans charity, which aired on CBS in Los Angeles.
He taught at The Los Angeles Film School and the Art Institute of Tucson.
Brian is a veteran of the Army and Army Reserve, a Major in the Infantry, Airborne, and Special Operations. His decorations include Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, German and Dutch Commando Parachutist badges, Pathfinder Torch, and Airborne Wings.
Brian was a member of the Notre Dame Alumni Diversity Council and Asian Pacific Alumni Board, three-time president of the Independent Film Association of Southern Arizona (now Independent Film Arizona), a founding member of Media and Entertainment of Notre Dame (now Hollywood Domers), and treasurer of the Loft Cinema in Tucson. He was awarded a Notre Dame Exemplary Asian Pacific Alumnus award.
Brian has also been an actor in over 60 films, the first of which was directed by William Shatner, and stand-up comic.
He worked nearly twenty years in corporate finance and international business, earned an MBA from Boston University and a BBA from University of Notre Dame.
He has one son, Collin.- Producer
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Eleven-time Emmy Award-winning producer of both television and film, Brian Miller served as senior vice president and general manager of Cartoon Network Studios from 2000-2021. Miller opened the doors to the production facility in Burbank, Calif., in 2000. In this capacity, Miller oversaw the studio's production of Cartoon Network original programming domestically and internationally as well as its day-to-day operations. Additionally, he was responsible for creating and managing the unit-based animation production model that bred a unique and artistic environment at the studio. He also oversaw the scripted live-action series production slate as well as the live-action original TV movies for the network. Miller joined the network in 2000 to set up a production facility for Cartoon Network Originals. More than 3,000 episodes of production have come out of the studio since its opening. Under Miller's watch, the studio has become a forerunner in award nominations and wins for animation. Having been honored with 47 Emmy nominations in both prime time and daytime The studio has also garnered multiple Annie Awards as well as Italy's Pulcinela Award and Annecy's Cristal Award for Best Television Series in its world festival, making Cartoon Network Studios the top awarded television animation studio in the last decade. Beyond the studio productions, Miller consulted directly on co-production deals, as well as managing production needs on shows produced outside of the studio. Prior to Cartoon Network Studios, Miller worked for Nickelodeon's Animation Studio as vice president of production opening their facility in 1998. In this capacity, Miller was responsible for overseeing domestic and overseas production on all series, including Spongebob Squarepants, Hey Arnold!, and the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts program. Previously, Miller was vice president of animation production at Hanna-Barbera, where he managed both domestic and overseas production on all series, including Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, The What a Cartoon Shorts program. Miller's animation career began in the mid 80's when he joined DIC Enterprises as an associate producer and eventually assumed the role of vice president of production. Prior to his twenty plus year tenure in the animation industry, Miller began his career in live action specializing in early reality programs, including That's Incredible! Miller holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in radio, television & film from California State University Northridge in Northridge, Calif.- Producer
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Brian is from eastern Kentucky. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has directed award-winning short films, web content and written for TV programs airing on MTV, NBC, USA, TLC, AXS TV and VH1.
He created the digital series "Big Country Blues" which won numerous awards and accolades.- Director
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Four-Time Emmy Award Winner Brian A. Wilkins is a Passionate Director & Filmmaker. An acclaimed storyteller in the world of sports, he is currently writing and directing an original feature film. His creativity, ambition & unmatched work ethic are just a few of the characteristics that have placed him in a league of his own.
A Southern California native that now calls New York home, Wilkins continues to elevate content in the entertainment industry with the awards and story-telling acumen to support his ascent.
With experience as a Creative Director and Producer with companies such as Showtime, GoPro, and NFL Network, he has built a strong name in the industry. With over 10 years of experience in cities such as Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, he has excelled in producing Documentaries and Original Programs.
Brian is a former standout Division-1 football player for the University of Texas at El Paso. As a Linebacker for the Miners, some of Wilkins' brightest moments came against Texas Tech, University of Houston, and the University of Kansas.- Brian Abendroth is from Kalamazoo Michigan. Before and after lock up he became a horror core rapper for morlock records. His most known song is "body bag swag". He has a son Taylonz whom has been missing for three years, and a wife Ashley Huff whom is a underground model for juggalos and juggalettes. Brian resides in Grand Rapids Michigan. You can check him and his wife out on YouTube, sound cloud and reverbnation.
- Brian Abston was born August 21, 1963 in Nashville Tennessee. He had his first role acting in 1980 at the age of 17 playing a teenager turning 18 on an episode of the Baxters, the American-Canadian sitcom that aired as a syndicated series from September 1979 to August 1981. There was a special episode filmed in Nashville at the Channel 2 News Station, titled "But Dad, I don't want to be a Doctor" where he played a son going against his fathers wish of going to college to become a doctor.
He went on to spend his career in Telecommunications but never lost his love of acting. It wasn't until 2015 when he jumped at an opportunity to work as a background actor on the hit show "Nashville". He worked in over a dozen episodes with several being a featured extra. This sparked his desire and he has now worked in several films, television series, commercials and music videos. Many as credited supporting and principle roles. - Brian Adam DeJesus was born and reared in The Bronx, New York. Early on Brian realized he wanted to act and often was the source of entertainment at family gatherings. He started out with sports, boxing, and dance, then found Acting and followed it through. His first acting opportunity materialized when he auditioned for an open call for a pilot called Russo. He auditioned for the first time without having any prior acting experience, and landed a principal role with director Tim Van Patten at the age of 10. Since then Brian has been an active Sag member and constantly working with his agency to achieve his goals. Brian's natural chemistry with the camera has become apparent in the many roles he booked. He has been cast in different projects such as Law & Order, The Punisher, Bull, Raising Kanan, East New York, and most recent Buffalo Wild Wings commercial.
At a certain point Brian relocated to California to pursue his career further. While auditioning he also continued doing background work in order to keep himself involved in his passion. Brian is currently attending acting classes in New York Sag Offices and has recently finished wrapping up on the show FBI on CBS. He plans to attend One on One acting classes and is always auditioning, looking to improve. Brian absolutely loves acting and hopes to one day to be a successful and well-respected actor.
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Brian Aichlmayr is a Houston, Texas based 1st and 2nd Assistant Camera currently working on Commercials. Brian Aichlmayr has been a freelance AC in Houston since 2011 and has worked on many projects not listed. Feel free to look at his website for a complete list of credits under the resume tab.- Brian Joseph Albanese was born on February 7, 1988 at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His parents are Louise Feniello, a homemaker and Robert Albanese, a real estate mogul. He has an older brother, Matthew.
Brian began his writing aspirations in college authoring mostly short science fiction stories based on video games. While he majored in International Business & Management, he took electives in Creative Writing and Screenwriting to fulfill his creative ambitions. From 2010 to 2012, he worked simultaneously as a disc-jockey and other part time jobs for a few years after college while still searching for his main passion.
He later started a online blog in 2015 discussing a variety of topics ranging from politics, video games, sports, business, travel and religion but was lacking focus on what he truly wanted to write about. While Brian was using the blog as an outlet, he also had written an untitled 50 page screenplay composed of dreams, real life experiences and fiction.
Brian eventually met Peter Tilley through an online forum and became their main screenwriter for Faces Of Fear Productions in late 2020. Stemming from his passion for the horror genre, Brian then started writing short horror screenplays for them and has completed multiple short stories that have yet to be released. The terrifying Christmas short entitled Killer Khristmas is scheduled to be released on their YouTube channel in December, 2020. - Camera and Electrical Department
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For more than 13 years, Brian Alberth has been involved in film and television production include roles as a producer, director, writer, DP and various other production positions. In the past, he's produced and directed regional and national television programming including ATV Illustrated TV, American Snowmobiler, Into the Outdoors, Discover Wisconsin and Trail Nation. He has won several awards, including a Telly, WCCA Award, MadFed Addy, CAB Award, and AHECTA Award.- Writer
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Brian is the writer and director of the feature film, "Afghan Hound," for MaryeaMedia Productions, LLC. He has also written three novels and five screenplays, three of which were on commission for producers and talent agents. He has associate produced and production coordinated two feature films, one for Life Cinemedia, LLC in 2005 titled "Beyond Life" and the other for Diamonds & Cheese, LLC in 2006 titled "The Spring in Her Step," respectively. His three one-act plays, "The Keeper of My Dignity," "The Unmentionable Mann," and "My Ego Sometimes Trips Up My Wisdom" have been performed by Love Creek Productions, The Neighborhood Playhouse, and Monarch Theater Company in 2005, 2008, and 2013, respectively, and his short fiction and journalism have appeared in Humdinger.com, the Hamptons Journal, The New York Hamptonite, Hamptons.com, Dan's Papers, Film Gravity, and Body Architect. He recently co-developed and wrote the scripts for "Cardio Mission," an interactive personal fitness smart phone application with an espionage narrative. Jonathan Pegg, Gore Vidal's one-time literary agent, called his writing "swift and incisive." American Amp, the marketing firm behind "The Passion of The Christ" and "The Chronicles of Narnia," endorsed one of his un-produced screenplays, writing a letter of intent to market the film should it be produced. He also holds a Master of Arts in clinical psychology from Columbia University and is a member of "The Creative Conspiracy", a NYC-based fiction writers' and filmmakers' collective and workshop.- Actor
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Brian Ames is originally from Atlanta, GA where he began acting in commercials as a child. While he relished his time on set he never dreamed of pursuing a vocation in the arts. With intentions of becoming a doctor he selected Emory University for their renowned medical school; however, a chance audition with the Shakespeare Company his first semester changed all that. He quickly became a fixture in the theater with leading roles in eight major productions in four years. In addition he was accepted to Oxford University for a British Theater semester. After graduating with Business and English degrees he moved to Los Angeles and never looked back. Brian is an actor and writer, known for Westworld (2018), Awkward (2014-15) and I Am Watching You (2016).- Actor
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Brian Andrew Shaw was born in Paterson, New Jersey and grew up in near by Sussex County. He graduated from High Point Regional High School. He enlisted in the United States Army as a Military Police Officer shortly after the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks. Stationed in Germany, he then served two combat tours in Iraq receiving numerous commendations including one for valor. After 5 years in the Army he attended Montclair State University for Justice Studies and Pre-Law. It is at Montclair that he developed an interest in acting and film after a theater class. He also began building costumes as a hobby which helped him meet the right people. Many of those people were fellow Veterans who are involved in the arts in organizations such as "Veteran Artist Program", "Society of Artistic Veterans", and "Tomahawk Pictures".
He became a firefighter in New Jersey in 2012, a position he still holds to this day. Shortly after becoming a firefighter, he moved to Jersey City, New Jersey which is close to New York City and he began background acting. He also had a few smaller roles on student films with many roles portraying Soldiers or Police Officers.