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Allison Scagliotti was born on September 21, 1990 in Monterey, California, USA as Allison Glenn Scagliotti. She is an actress, known as Claudia Donovan on Warehouse 13 (2009), as Maddie Clifford on Redemption Maddie (2007) and as Sawyer on Read It and Weep (2006). Her most recent television series is Stitchers (2015), on ABC Family, where she plays the character, Camille Engelson.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Erica Cerra discovered her love of acting by her 8th birthday. After appearing in numerous commercials Erica decided to take a break from acting. Returning to the business at 22, she decided to dedicate herself whole-heartedly to living as a professional actor. She has since committed herself to extensive study with the likes of Matthew Harrison and top acting coaches Larry Moss and Gina Chiarelli.
Erica has worked alongside the likes of Lolita Davidovich, Luis Guzman, and Hank Azaria. Her most recent credits include: New Line Cinema's Blade III; Showtime's The L Word; Adam Druxman's The Condemned; and MGM's Dead Like Me. In addition to appearances on Jake 2.0, The Collector, Dead Zone and Long Weekend.- Actor
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Saul Rubinek was born in a refugee camp in Germany, where his father ran a Yiddish Repertory Theatre company. Saul started his professional career as a child actor in theater and radio in Canada. By the time he was 20, he was a member of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival company in Stratford, Ontario and, later, was a co-founder, actor and director of Theatre Le Hibou, Theatre Passe-Muraille and Toronto Free Theatre. He got his early training in film and television as an actor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Saul started working in the United States as an actor at the Public Theater in New York. Rubinek's work on U.S. and Canadian television, film and theater spans four decades. In 1997, Rubinek directed his first feature for Lionsgate, based on the play he previously directed, Jerry and Tom (1998). He also was producer on the film in partnership with his wife, Elinor Reid. The film was an official entry in competition at Sundance in 1998. He also directed the features _Club Land (2001) (TV)_ and _Bleacher Bums (2001) (TV)_ for Showtime/Paramount. Rubinek directed, and his wife and partner Elinor Reid produced the award-winning indie film Cruel But Necessary (2005). Penguin Books published (1987) Rubinek's non-fiction book, "So Many Miracles", an account of his parents' survival growing up in Poland during World War II. He wrote and produced an award-winning documentary (1988) of the same title, So Many Miracles (1987), for CBC and PBS which chronicles his parents' reunion with the people who saved their lives during the Holocaust. The DVD of the documentary is available from The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University. Rubinek wrote the play "Terrible Advice", which was produced in 2011 in London by The Chocolate Factory, starring Scott Bakula, Andy Nyman, Caroline Quentin, Sharon Horgan, and directed by Frank Oz.- Actor
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Joe Morton was born on October 18, 1947 in New York, New York, USA. He is a television, film, and theater actor, best known for The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Eureka (2006), and Scandal (2012). He also writes and directs, and is a singer/songwriter.- Actor
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Niall Matter was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for The Predator (2018), Watchmen (2009) and Primeval: New World (2012). He has been married to Sara Bradley Matter since June 2016. They have two children.- Music Artist
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Pink was born Alecia Beth Moore in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and was later raised in Philadelphia. Her parents, Judith Moore (née Kugel), a nurse, and Jim Moore, a Vietnam veteran, divorced when she was very young. Her mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, while her father has Irish, German, and English ancestry. As a child, all Pink wanted was to become a singer, and she was driven by the music of Madonna, Mary J. Blige, 4 Non Blondes, Janis Joplin, Billy Joel and Whitney Houston. She was a very unique teenager, and went through phases as a skateboarder, hip-hopper and gymnast.
Pink spent several years as part of the club scene in Philadelphia, singing guest spots and performing for talent shows. At the age of 13, she was asked by a local DJ to sing back-up for his rap group, Schools of Thought. A short time later, she was discovered by a record executive and joined a female R&B group, Choice. When that didn't work out, she signed with LaFace Records and began her solo career. In spring 2000, she released her debut, "Can't Take Me Home". She co-wrote many songs and watched it go multi-platinum by the year's end. Her debut included the Top 10 hit, "There You Go", which was certified a gold single.
Pink is now considered an icon in the world of pop music. For example, in 2019 she won the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, becoming the first non-British artist to have won the award since the Brit Awards began in 1977 (originally known as the BPI Awards). This was especially impressive as she was chosen ahead of the likes of Phil Collins, a British musician who has sold more records and had a longer career but never won the award.- Actor
- Producer
Neil Grayston was born on 24 March 1981 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Godiva's (2005), Warehouse 13 (2009) and The True Heroines (2011).- Noah Danby is a Canadian born actor, known for his versatility in Television, Film and Theatre. Noah is known for his film work with his roles in Riddick (2013) opposite Vin Diesel. The Tuxedo (2002) with Jackie Chan and opposite Dave Bautista as Todd in My Spy (2020)
In Television, Noah is known for his character work as the Alien Sukar in SyFy's Defiance (2013) The Werewolf Russell in Shadowhunters (2016) and the ruthless Buris "Buzzie" Burke on BBC America's show Copper (2012)
Noah can be seen in the Chinese survival film Wings Over Everest (2019) and the 2019 film She Never Died (2019) - Director
- Actor
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Eric Laneuville was born on 14 July 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Lost (2004), I'll Fly Away (1991) and The Omega Man (1971).- Director
- Producer
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Stephen Surjik is known for The Umbrella Academy (2019), The Punisher (2017) and Lost in Space (2018).- Producer
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Jane Espenson was born on 14 July 1964 in Ames, Iowa, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), Husbands (2011) and Game of Thrones (2011).- Producer
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Chris Fisher, also known as 'Fish', was born in Pasadena, 1971. He spent his childhood overseas before returning to California where he went to high school in Newport Beach. He attended USC for undergraduate and law school, then began his entertainment career in the William Morris training program. He wrote, produced, or directed three films in the Sundance Midnight Madness section, 'Taboo', Nightstalker', and 'Spun', establishing himself as an independent genre filmmaker. Over the next decade, he went on to make five more genre films, 'Hillside Strangler', 'Dirty', 'S.Darko', 'Street Kings Motor City', and 'Meeting Evil'. He started his career in television as a staff writer on, 'The Cleaner', before going on to direct and produce multiple television dramas for cable, streaming, and network. Fish has produced over 100 episodes of television, and directed more than 70. He has directed 5 of the top 40 episodes rated by fans on IMDB, all from 'Person Of Interest', including the highly rated and critically acclaimed 'If-Then-Else'. He is considered one of the premiere producer/directors in town, having produced long-running hit shows like 'Warehouse 13, Person Of Interest, and The Magicians'. He lives in Ojai with his family.- Additional Crew
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John Hamilton is the founder and CEO of Wonderkind Pictures based in Los Angeles. Prior to forming his own company, Mr. Hamilton was based in Orlando and had offices at Universal Studios Florida as well as Chapman/Leonard Studios from which he worked as a writer/producer/director on various film/TV projects. Upon relocating to California, Mr. Hamilton worked directly for Universal Studios Home Entertainment where he coordinated the national publicity campaigns for a multitude of film titles including The Bourne Ultimatum, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Wanted, Mamma Mia: The Movie, Charlie Wilson's War, Inglourious Basterds, Fast and Furious and Despicable Me as well as such television titles as "30 Rock", "House", "The Office", "Monk" and "Psych." After his tenure at Universal, he was the Administrator of Television and Originals for Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and coordinated the marketing elements for such titles as "The House of the Dragon", "The Winchesters", "You", "White Lotus", and "The Last of Us." In 2016 Mr. Hamilton wrote and directed the award-winning short film (Best Live-Action Short... Louisville International Film Festival and "Official Selection" of the Studio City Film Festival) entitled The Morning Star. Most recently John Hamilton wrote and directed the short film Well-Intentions which became an "Official Selection" at both the 2021 Orlando Film Festival and the 2021 Louisville International Festival of Film. Well-Intentions went on to win The Darling Award at the later (the top prize of the entire festival) which has only been awarded three times in the festival's twelve year history. Currently, Mr. Hamilton is prepping a new "Jim Henson like" television series that is slated to be shot in Orlando in the fall of 2024.- Producer
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Matthew Hastings was born on 21 October 1967 in Rockville Center, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), Spinning Out (2020) and Shadowhunters (2016).- Music Department
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Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, Vyatka region, Russia. He was the second of six children (five brothers and one sister). His father, named Ilya Chaikovsky, was a mining business executive in Votkinsk. His father's ancestors were from Ukraine and Poland. His mother, named Aleksandra Assier, was of Russian and French ancestry.
Tchaikovsky played piano since the age of 5, he also enjoyed his mother's playing and singing. He was a sensitive and emotional child, and became deeply traumatized by the death of his mother of cholera, in 1854. At that time he was sent to a boarding school in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the St. Petersburg School of Law in 1859, then worked for 3 years at the Justice Department of Russian Empire. In 1862-1865 he studied music under Anton Rubinstein at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1866-1878 he was a professor of theory and harmony at the Moscow Conservatory. At that time he met Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz, who visited Russia with concert tours. During that period Tchaikovsky wrote his first ballet 'The Swan Lake', opera 'Eugene Onegin', four Symphonies, and the brilliant Piano Concerto No1.
As a young man Tchaikovsky suffered traumatic personal experiences. He was sincerely attached to a beautiful soprano, named Desiree Artot, but their engagement was destroyed by her mother and she married another man. His homosexuality was causing him a painful guilt feeling. In 1876 he wrote to his brother, Modest, about his decision to "marry whoever will have me." One of his admirers, a Moscow Conservatory student Antonina Ivanovna Milyukova, was persistently writing him love letters. She threatened to take her life if Tchaikovsky didn't marry her. Their brief marriage in the summer of 1877 lasted only a few weeks and caused him a nervous breakdown. He even made a suicide attempt by throwing himself into a river. In September of 1877 Tchaikovsky separated from Milyukova. She eventually ended up in an insane asylum, where she spent over 20 years and died. They never saw each other again. Although their marriage was terminated legally, Tchaikovsky generously supported her financially until his death.
Tchaikovsky was ordered by the doctors to leave Russia until his emotional health was restored. He went to live in Europe for a few years. Tchaikovsky settled together with his brother, Modest, in a quiet village of Clarens on Lake Geneva in Switzerland and lived there in 1877-1878. There he wrote his very popular Violin Concerto in D. He also completed his Symphony No.4, which was inspired by Russian folk songs, and dedicated it to Nadezhda von Meck. From 1877 to 1890 Tchaikovsky was financially supported by a wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck, who also supported Claude Debussy. She loved Tchaikovsky's music and became his devoted pen-friend. They exchanged over a thousand letters in 14 years; but they never met, at her insistence. In 1890 she abruptly terminated all communication and support, claiming bankruptcy.
Tchaikovsky played an important role in the artistic development of Sergei Rachmaninoff. They met in 1886, when Rachmaninov was only 13 years old, and studied the music of Tchaikovsky under the tutelage of their mutual friend, composer Aleksandr Zverev. Tchaikovsky was the member of the Moscow conservatory graduation board. He joined many other musicians in recommendation that Rachmaninov was to be awarded the Gold Medal in 1892. Later Tchaikovsky was involved in popularization of Rachmaninov's graduation work, opera 'Aleko'. Upon Tchaikovsky's promotion Rachmaninov's opera "Aleko" was included in the repertory and performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
In 1883-1893 Tchaikovsky wrote his best Symphonies No.5 and No.6, ballets 'The Sleeping Beauty' and 'The Nutcracker', operas 'The Queen of Spades' and 'Iolanta'. In 1888-1889, he made a successful conducting tour of Europe, appearing in Prague, Leipzig, Hamburg, Paris, and London. In 1891, he went on a two month tour of America, where he gave concerts in New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. In May of 1891 Tchaikovsky was the conductor on the official opening night of Carnegie Hall in New York. He was a friend of Edvard Grieg and Antonín Dvorák. In 1892 he heard Gustav Mahler conducting his opera 'Eugene Onegin' in Hamburg. Tchaikovsky himself conducted the premiere of his Symphony No.6 in St. Petersburg, Russia, on the 16th of October, 1893. A week later he died of cholera after having a glass of tap water. He was laid to rest in the Necropolis of Artists at St. Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg, Russia.- Music Department
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Award-winning songwriter ("All the Way" [Academy Award, 1957], "Three Coins in the Fountain" [Academy Award, 1954], "Love and Marriage" [Emmy Award, 1955], "High Hopes" [Academy Award, 1959], "Call Me Irresponsible" [Academy Award, 1963]), composer, author and publisher, educated at Seward Park High School in New York.
He was a violinist in vaudeville orchestras, and organized a dance band wih Saul Chaplin. He wrote the night club scores for "Connie's Hot Chocolates of 1936", "New Grand Terrace Review", and "Cotton Club Parade" (1939).
Arriving in Hollywood in 1940, he wrote many title and theme songs along with film scores and incidental music. His Broadway stage scores include "High Button Shoes", "Two's Company", "Skyscraper", and music for the marionette show "Les Poupees de Paris". He joined ASCAP in 1936, and his chief musical collaboraors included Saul Chaplin, Jule Styne, and James Van Heusen. He became a musical publisher in 1955.
His other song compositions include "If I Had Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes", "Rhythm Is Our Business", "Shoe Shine Boy", "Until the Real Thing Comes Along", "Dedicated to You", "If It's the Last Thing I Do", "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon", "Posin'", "Please Be Kind", "Joseph, Joseph", "I've Heard That Song Before", "Victory Polka", "I'll Walk Alone", "Saturday Night is The Loneliest Night in the Week", "Poor Little Rhode Island" (the official state song), "The Charm of You", "I Fall in Love Too Easily", "What Makes the Sunset", "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry", "It's Been a Long, Long Time", "Day By Day", "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow", "I Should Care", "I'm Glad I Waited For You", "The Things We Did Last Summer", "Five Minutes More", "Time After Time", "Papa, Won't You Dance With Me?", "You're My Girl", "I Still Get Jealous", "It's Magic", "Be My Love", "Because You're Mine", "Teach Me Tonight", "The 86th! The 86th!" (official song of the US Army 86th Infantry Regiment), "The Impatient Years", "Look to Your Heart", "I'll Never Stop Loving You", "Hey, Jealous Lover", "The Second Time Around", "September of My Years", "My Kind of Town", "I Like to Lead When I Dance", "Love Is a Bore", "Everybody Has a Right to Be Wrong", "I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her", and the film title songs for "The Tender Trap", "It's A Woman's World", "The Long Hot Summer", "Indiscreet", "Pocketful of Miracles", "Come Blow Your Horn", "The Best of Everything", and "Where Love Has Gone".- Director
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Matt Earl Beesley was born on 8 October 1954 in Dallas, Texas, USA. Matt Earl is a director and assistant director, known for Chain Reaction (1996), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and Forever Young (1992).- Sound Department
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Tara's been a freelance Foley Artist in Los Angeles for the past fifteen years. With over 222 credits on her resume, she's been nominated 24 times, 21 of which were for best sound editing at the Golden Reels. She snagged five Golden Reels, two for Westworld, Jane, Atlanta, and a Webisode series. She has also been nominated three times for an Emmy and won one for the FX show Atlanta.
So passionate about her craft, Tara's collected her own arsenal of unique props and gadgets over the years, including a Holy Bible and a machete. Tara studied voice at Berklee College of Music, majoring in music production and engineering. It was there she took a visual media course that opened up her eyes to Foley. It blew her mind. She knew what she wanted to do for the rest of her life and hasn't looked back since.
Her most recent projects include, YouYou coming out this summer. Please feel free to contact Tara directly through email for any work inquires. Find her at @boomfoley on IG- Music Department
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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 - 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio St. Paul, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, the mature Violin Concerto and the String Octet. The melody for the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is also his. Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions.- Art Department
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John Lund has collaborated as a Storyboard Artist and a Creative Consultant with top name directors in Feature films, TV series and hundreds of Commercials. Educated at the University of British Columbia in Fine Arts and History, he began his career as a children's book Illustrator and has been published in over 30 books, including the Dr Seuss, Sesame Street and Bear in the Big Blue House series. He is passionate about excellence in cinematic vision and compelling story telling in both visual and word forms. Prior to discovering his love of art and film, John worked as a model in Paris and an actor in Vancouver, Canada. He loves to volunteer, teaching children and film students about storytelling and film.- Composer
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Music producer, arranger, and songwriter Norman Jessie Whitfield was born on May 12, 1941 in New York City. A native of Harlem, Whitfield spent his early teen years hanging out in local pool halls. Norman moved with his family to Detroit, Michigan when he was in his late teens. At age 18 he wrote and produced songs for Detroit's Thelma Records. Whitfield began hanging around Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. offices at age 19. Motown record label founder Berry Gordy Jr. gave Norman a job in the quality control department that determined which songs would or would not be released as singles. Whitfield eventually joined Motown's in-house songwriting staff. His early successes for Motown included such songs as Marvin Gaye's "Pride and Joy," "Too Many Fish in the Sea" by the Marvelettes, and both "He Was Really Saying Something" and "Needle in a Haystack" by the Velvelettes. From 1966 to 1974 Norman produced numerous enormously successful records for the Temptations. Among the many soul classic songs Whitfield co-wrote, produced, and/or arranged are "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)," "(I Know) I'm Losing You," "Cloud Nine," "War," "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," "I Can't Get Next to You," and "Smiling Faces Sometimes." Norman's work at Motown not only beget substantial record sales and various Grammy Awards, but also helped create the whole lowdown funky Motown sound. Moreover, Whitfield was a major instrumental figure in the late 60s psychedelic soul sub-genre. However, Norman became increasingly dissatisfied working with Gordy and left Motown to form his own label Whitfield Records in the mid 70s. Whitfield scored a massive #1 hit smash with the supremely rousing and syncopated "Car Wash" by Rose Royce in 1976. In the early 80s Norman started working again with Motown; he produced the 1983 hit single "Sailing Away" by the Temptations and produced the soundtrack for the movie "The Last Dragon" in 1985. Whitfield and frequent songwriting collaborator Barrett Strong were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004. In 2005 Norman plead guilty to income tax evasion charges and was placed under house arrest. Whitfield died at age 67 from complications of diabetes on September 16, 2008 in Lake Tahoe, California.- Sound Department
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Richard (Rick) Partlow was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1948, the youngest of two boys, to Mr and Mrs. James E. Partlow. His Mother, Norma Jane VanDervort, born in 1921, a graduate of Ohio University, was an artist, singer, poet, lyricist, author (under Norma Kalina) and reporter. His Father, James Edwin Partlow, a graduate of North Carolina State University, was a corporate businessman and served as a Captain during World War II in the Army Signal Corps, Intelligence Division.
One year after his birth the family moved to Oakland, California and the at age three to Houston, Texas where Richard was introduced to swimming, boating, water skiing, crabbing and Saturday Morning Serials at the movies like Buck Rogers and Commander Cody. That is where his imagination took root. At age 9 the family moved to Pennsylvania. His parents bought a modest farm house on ten acres a few miles from the village of Chester Springs where Richard attended fifth and sixth grades in a two room school house. Richard graduated at the top of his class of five students. He and older brother, Jamie, attended amid graduated from Downingtown High School, Richard in 1966. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, 80 miles west of Philadelphis, was idyllic for Richard. No young child or teenager could wish for any greater experience. Friendships were forged that exist to this day. Football, track, gymnastics and swimming took up a lot of his time. But the four seasons of the year held so much more. Summer was rope swings over the swimming hole, a three acre honeysuckle canopied pine forest as his private domain, and a one half acre asparagus patch as his summer cash cow when sold to the local farmers market. Fall was sports, riding horses and roaming the forest . Winter was snow forts, sledding, ice hockey on the local pond and for cash, using his Dads 1948 Jeep with plow to clear snow from the long country lanes. Spring was planting veggie gardens, building homemade go-carts and dreaming of summer.
Richard was somewhat rebellious during his last year of High School so his Father insisted he spend his first year of college at Valley Forge Military Academy Jr. College. From there a year at The University of Miami and a semester at Villanova University which is when Richard joined the Marines. Following his stint in the Marines Richard had no idea of what he wanted to do with his life. During summer breaks in high school and college he spent alot of his time playing guitar, singing and writing music with partner Jim Richards. They played mostly in coffee houses and cafés in Phila. and on the Jersey Shore.
So following the Marines, with his parents divorced, the farm sold, Richard moved back to Philly, working as a bartender, bank teller, retail sales and finally with a detective agency as a flagman on a road crew where he was placed to track stolen equipment. With only two weeks on the job a car stopped. A man and woman got out and asked Richard if he wanted to be in a play at a local community theatre. He got the lead in the play in the role of Tom Lee, in 'Tea and Sympathy'. Richard was hooked. During the limited run of the show he was seen by a producer of a local CBS children's show and signed a one year contract where he played characters in history such as young Ben Franklin and young Thomas Edison.- Music Department
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Jule Styne was born on 31 December 1905 in London, England, UK. He was a composer and producer, known for Funny Girl (1968), Die Hard (1988) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). He was married to Margaret Ann Bissett Brown and Ethel Rubenstein. He died on 20 September 1994 in New York City, New York, USA.- Sound Department
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Born and raised in Hell's Kitchen, NYC, Mark graduated from Fordham University. He started mixing and producing music at age 17 and by 19 he moved into post-production as a re-recording and original scoring mixer at Filmus Sound for the next nine years. He then spent 17 years at Magno Sound & Video as a re-recording mixer. While at Magno, Mark started to mix ADR, he also continued mixing commercials, and music projects. Mark has been at Soundtrack, NY since 2006, predominantly mixing ADR, as well as some feature documentaries. Mark is extremely fortunate to have worked with some tremendously talented people through his years in the industry.- Sound Department
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Monique Reymond, an accomplished foley artist, performer, yogi and content creator who has worked on critically acclaimed projects screened across the globe. Her production company and non-profit Channel 1111 creates content and experiences to elevate the mind, body and spirit. Monique was adopted as a baby from the Punjab region of Pakistan by Western parents and was raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles.