One Hit Wonder Directors
I am using the term (one hit wonder) somewhat liberally, in that I may include directors who have made no more than two widely available feature films. Equally, a director who has made two or less feature films and multiple shorts can be found here: shorts almost never will be considered in this list unless they're longer and somewhat acclaimed. Directors who have done up to four feature films with only one being widely available, or directors who have done up to three, with one standing out significantly above the rest, will also be included.
Each film scoring a 4 or 5 in a given category receives a star for that category.
✦ The green category ✦ rates the integrity of a film's screenplay, plot development and believability.
explained: I deem this category the most important, as without a solid sensible plot, all you have is a hodgepodge of badly connected scenes, regardless of their individual worth where the lines between surrealism and simply badly planned directing can be blurred. For feature films, this is integral.
✦ The yellow category ✦ rates the quality of a film's directorial and cinematographic flair, style, power, and innovation in scene construction, which may also include dialogue and music.
explained: A film may not have a sensible plot, but its individual scenes may be outstanding examples of artistry.
✦ The orange category ✦ rates the talent and assets in a film, including acting talent, hair/makeup, special effects, anything that can often be boiled down to the film's budget, but ultimately, how that budget is made use of.
explained: Unfortunately, at the end of the day, the greater a film's budget, the less likely it is to be a flop. Producers can always churn out a well funded formula based film, largely lacking in substance that will always please viewers adequately and make tonnes of money.
✦ The red category ✦ is to rate how much I personally simply enjoyed the film.
explained: It is intended as somewhat of a recap of the other three categories, but also goes to show, that try as we might, we can never be completely objective. More importantly though, sometimes the viewer simply likes or dislikes a film, and the reasons are not always easy to identify, or simply too complex to list. it could be a point of interest when the rating of this category diverges from the median of the other three.
Each film scoring a 4 or 5 in a given category receives a star for that category.
✦ The green category ✦ rates the integrity of a film's screenplay, plot development and believability.
explained: I deem this category the most important, as without a solid sensible plot, all you have is a hodgepodge of badly connected scenes, regardless of their individual worth where the lines between surrealism and simply badly planned directing can be blurred. For feature films, this is integral.
✦ The yellow category ✦ rates the quality of a film's directorial and cinematographic flair, style, power, and innovation in scene construction, which may also include dialogue and music.
explained: A film may not have a sensible plot, but its individual scenes may be outstanding examples of artistry.
✦ The orange category ✦ rates the talent and assets in a film, including acting talent, hair/makeup, special effects, anything that can often be boiled down to the film's budget, but ultimately, how that budget is made use of.
explained: Unfortunately, at the end of the day, the greater a film's budget, the less likely it is to be a flop. Producers can always churn out a well funded formula based film, largely lacking in substance that will always please viewers adequately and make tonnes of money.
✦ The red category ✦ is to rate how much I personally simply enjoyed the film.
explained: It is intended as somewhat of a recap of the other three categories, but also goes to show, that try as we might, we can never be completely objective. More importantly though, sometimes the viewer simply likes or dislikes a film, and the reasons are not always easy to identify, or simply too complex to list. it could be a point of interest when the rating of this category diverges from the median of the other three.
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Jacob Estes was born on 6 September 1972 in Tulare County, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Mean Creek (2004), The Details (2011) and He's Watching (2022).- Director
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Gerald Kargl born 1953 in Villach, Austria, is a writer and director, famous for the psycho-thriller "Angst" (1983). Kargl started experimenting with the film camera when he was 14. This resulted in a large number of short films. Between 1976 and 1982 he founded and organized the Austrian film festival, Die Österreichischen Filmtage. At the same time he was founder and editor of the Austrian film magazine Filmschrift. Between 1984 and 1994 Gerald Kargl worked on more than 100 commercials and promotional films as writer, director and producer, receiving more than 30 national and international awards, Cannes and Clio Awards among others. 1996 he founded and produced the Hotel-TV City Lights and sold the project in 2002. Since 1994 to date he wrote, directed and produced more than 20 documentaries and educational films. "Angst" is based on an actual case of triple-murder, the "Kniesek case", where Werner Kniesek killed three people in St. Pölten, Austria, out of pure lust in 1980. "Angst" is a collaborative effort of writer/director Gerald Kargl and his co-writer-cameraman Zbigniew Rybczynski, and the composer Klaus Schulze, from the "Krautrock"-group Tangerine Dream.- Producer
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Since its inception in 1996, Mitch has been involved in what has been called by director Quentin Tarantino, "the most important and prestigious genre film festival on this planet". Mitch is the director of international selection for and the co-director of the world renowned Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada.
Held every summer, the Fantasia International Film Festival attracts more than 100,000 spectators, as well as guests from the world of film from all over the planet. Screenings include feature length and short films, from documentary to animation, and everything in between.- Sound Department
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Thomas Clay was born in 1979 in Brighton, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for The Delivered (2019), Soi Cowboy (2008) and The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005).✦✦ The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael (2005) 3 + 4 + 3 + 4 = 14
✦✦ Soi Cowboy (2008) 4 + 4 + 3 + 3 = 14
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Bo Arne Vibenius was born on 29 March 1943 in Solna, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is a writer and director, known for Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973).- Actor
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Andrew Mark Copp was born in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for "The Mutilation Man" (1998), "Consumption of the Heart" (2012) and "Church of the Eyes" (2013). He died on 19 January 2013 in Dayton. Andy was preceded in death by his mother, Charlotte Copp; aunts: Betty Metzger and Ruth Hildebran; cousins: Dale Hildebran and Mark Metzger.
Andy is survived by sister and brother-in-law: Anna and Patrick Ernst; brother, Paul Copp; niece, Jennifer; nephew, Paul, Jr.; loving companion, Kristi Derr; dog, Nappy Pete; and many co-workers and friends.
Andy was part of the Dayton Access Television "DATV" family for many years, hosting many on air cable television shows and coordinating behind the scenes production. Andy had his own production company, Copp Films, in which he produced, directed and distributed independent films.- Anne-Sophie Birot is known for Les filles ne savent pas nager (2000), Une vague idée de la mer (1996) and De rêves et de parpaings (2024).
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Christina Rosendahl was born on 5 January 1971 in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. She is a director and writer, known for Idealisten (2015), Triple Dare (2006) and The Good Traitor (2020).- Director
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Jennifer Montgomery is known for Art for Teachers of Children (1995), Transitional Objects (2000) and Troika (1998).✦ The Art For Teachers Of Children (1995) 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 10
"Very slow tepidly paced, though quite conscientiously crafted low budget beginner film. Passable but largely uncompelling."- Writer
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Tommy Wiseau is an American actor, director, screenwriter & producer. He trained to be an actor at: American Conservatory Theater, Vince Chase Workshop, Jean Shelton Acting Lab, Laney College and Stella Adler Academy of Acting.
In 2001 he wrote, produced, directed and starred in The Room (2003), a feature film that received the 2003 Audience Award at the New York International Film Festival. In 2004, he produced the documentary Homeless in America (2004), which received the 2004 Social Award.
He is now working on several more projects.✦ The Room (2003) 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10
Horrible as a film, though the performance of Wiseau himself makes the film a highly entertaining unmistakably unintentional spoof of itself.- Director
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Robert Martin Carroll is known for Baby Luv (2000), Pale Horse Pale Rider (1980) and Sonny Boy (1989). He is married to Dalene Young.Sonny Boy (1989) 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8
"The only thing good about this film to me was the theme song written by David Carradine."- Transportation Department
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Cheerleader Autopsy (2003) 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 = 8
"A horrible film in every way, but not without low brow entertainment value."- Actress
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Pieter Jan Brugge was born in 1956 in Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands. He is a producer and production manager, known for 127 Hours (2010), The Insider (1999) and Defiance (2008). He has been married to Cristina Berio since 2019. He was previously married to Anna Boorstin.- Director
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Claudio Guerín was born in 1939 in Alcalá de Guadaira, Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Los desafíos (1969), La casa de las palomas (1972) and Estudio 1 (1965). He died on 16 February 1973 in Noya [now Noia], A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.- Actress
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Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan's In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the major performers in the cinema of this young century.
Samantha Morton was born on May 13, 1977 in Nottingham, England to parents who divorced when she was three years old. Peter and Pamela Morton took other spouses and made Samantha part of a mixed family of 13; she has eight brothers and sisters. She turned to play-acting early in her life, while she was a school-girl.
At 13, she left regular school to train as an actress at the Central Junior Television Workshop, where she learned her craft for three years. It was at the end of her training then that she decided that a life as a professional actress was for her.
She honed her skills in television roles, working her way up from series television to TV-movies and prestigious mini-series, such as Emma (1996) and Jane Eyre (1997). Her first major film role, Under the Skin (1997), won her the Best Actress Award from the Boston Film Critics Society. Woody Allen cast her as Hattie, the "dumb" (unspeaking) lover of Sean Penn's caddish jazz guitarist in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), a beautiful performance in a role that could have flummoxed a less-talented performer. Penn was Oscar-nominated for his performance, but it was Morton's Hattie that was central to the success of the film, Allen's last unqualified success. She provided the moral and narrative center of the film. It was quite a remarkable performance for a 21-year old as she had to do all her acting with her face, having been shorn of her voice. The role of Hattie won Morton a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination.
Ironically, Morton had never seen a Woody Allen movie before. (She grew up watching the TV and listening to the radio.) She agreed to do the film after reading the script (as she says, well-written roles for women are hard to find), and the movie made her a hot commodity in Hollywood after she won the Oscar nomination. (She lost out to Angelina Jolie). Morton was offered many roles, but was very choosy as she was not in acting as a game with a payoff of stardom and money.
She had consolidated her reputation by following up the Allen film with work in indie features that showed that she was not only talented, but quite courageous as a performer. She played a heroin addict in the underrated Jesus' Son (1999) and gave a brilliant performance in Morvern Callar (2002), the story of a Scottish supermarket clerk coping with her boyfriend's suicide.
Steven Spielberg cast her, opposite superstar Tom Cruise, as the clairvoyant in Minority Report (2002), in which she more than held her own opposite Cruise and the special effects. (She took the role as Cruise and Steven Spielberg are favorites of hers). As good as she was, Morton was better served by Irish director Jim Sheridan, Sheridan cast her as a character modeled after his wife in an autobiographical picture more in line with persona and that made better use of her talents. Her performance as the young Irish mother coping with life in New York City in In America (2002) won her numerous critics' awards and another Oscar nod, this time as Best Actress.
At this point, one feels that the odds of her winning the Oscar are even or better. Samantha Morton continues to deliver fine work in provocative films such as Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 (2003), though she is branching out towards the mainstream, taking a role in the remake of that perennial family favorite, Lassie (2005).- Director
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Lewis Jackson is known for Christmas Evil (1980) and The Deviates (1970).- Director
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Archibald Flancranstin is known for Header (2006).- Producer
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Johan Renck is one of the most respected and sought after directors of commercials and music videos today, so much so that the French magazine CB News dubbed him "the number one director of commercials and music videos in the world".
His directing career started in 1992 when he joined the production company Mekano Film and Television in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1994 he left Mekano to join forces with childhood friend director Jonas Åkerlund. They established a new production company, Renck Åkerlund Films, which immediately became one of the leaders of its kind in Sweden. During the same time he worked with his music project, Stakka Bo, with big success and a lot of his time was occupied by the music career. In 1997 he started to work as a director full time and quickly became a well-known name worldwide and in 1999 he was working with Madonna and Nike among others.
Johan has worked non-stop all over the world and continues to work with many well known brands such as; Nike, Levi's, Mercedes, Dom Perignon, and H&M and artists like Kylie Minogue, New Order, Madonna, The Libertines and The Streets to mention a few. He has achieved prestigious nominations and awards for his work, such as MTV award nominations to his music videos to Madonna and Beyoncé and two Cannes Bronze Lions for the Nike commercial "Racing Marion". In 2005 he won an award for best video in MVPA and was nominated in several categories in CAD for his music video for The Streets. In Cannes he collected a Bronze Lion for the commercial Sagem and a Silver Lion for his campaign for "Karl Lagerfeld for H&M", this film also awarded Grand Prix in Eurobest and a Gold in Epica. In 2006, again he had several MVPA nominations, this time for his videos for Madonna: Hung Up (2005) and for Robbie Williams: Tripping (2005). In The Gunn Report Johan Renck was listed as the 25th most rewarded director of commercials. In 2007 Johans short film 'Cow', for SOS Live Earth, was nominated in Eurobest and in Epica Awards where it won the Bronze price.
Johan works within a variety of different media; films, commercials, music videos, theatre productions, art and music projects and still photography. He shoots stills for magazines like Italian Vogue and brands such as Diesel just to mention a few. Johan finished his feature film Downloading Nancy (2008), starring Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, and Amy Brenneman among others. The film has its world premiere in the 2008 Sundance Festival where it also competed in the Dramatic Competition picked out of thousands of submissions.
Johan is based in Stockholm where he runs RAF. In the US and in England he is represented by high profile production company RSA/Black Dog, in France by Soixante Quinze. He is also highly respected by David Unger at ICM for feature film projects.could break the label- Actor
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Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi) and Sal Pacino. They divorced when he was young. His mother moved them into his grandparents' home in the South Bronx. Pacino found himself often repeating the plots and voices of characters he had seen in the movies. Bored and unmotivated in school, he found a haven in school plays, and his interest soon blossomed into a full-time career. Starting onstage, he went through a period of depression and poverty, sometimes having to borrow bus fare to succeed to auditions. He made it into the prestigious Actors Studio in 1966, studying under Lee Strasberg, creator of the Method Approach that would become the trademark of many 1970s-era actors.
After appearing in a string of plays in supporting roles, Pacino finally attained success off-Broadway with Israel Horovitz's "The Indian Wants the Bronx", winning an Obie Award for the 1966-67 season. That was followed by a Tony Award for "Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie?" His first feature films made little departure from the gritty realistic stage performances that earned him respect: he played a drug addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971) after his film debut in Me, Natalie (1969). The role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) was one of the most sought-after of the time: Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, Robert De Niro and a host of other actors either wanted it or were mentioned, but director Francis Ford Coppola wanted Pacino for the role.
Coppola was successful but Pacino was reportedly in constant fear of being fired during the very difficult shoot. The film was a monster hit that earned Pacino his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. However, instead of taking on easier projects for the big money he could now command, Pacino threw his support behind what he considered tough but important films, such as the true-life crime drama Serpico (1973) and the tragic real-life bank robbery film Dog Day Afternoon (1975). He was nominated three consecutive years for the "Best Actor" Academy Award. He faltered slightly with Bobby Deerfield (1977), but regained his stride with And Justice for All (1979), for which he received another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Unfortunately, this would signal the beginning of a decline in his career, which produced flops like Cruising (1980) and Author! Author! (1982).
Pacino took on another vicious gangster role and cemented his legendary status in the ultra-violent cult film Scarface (1983), but a monumental mistake was about to follow. Revolution (1985) endured an endless and seemingly cursed shoot in which equipment was destroyed, weather was terrible, and Pacino fell ill with pneumonia. Constant changes in the script further derailed the project. The Revolutionary War-themed film, considered among the worst films ever made, resulted in awful reviews and kept him off the screen for the next four years. Returning to the stage, Pacino did much to give back and contribute to the theatre, which he considers his first love. He directed a film, The Local Stigmatic (1990), but it remains unreleased. He lifted his self-imposed exile with the striking Sea of Love (1989) as a hard-drinking policeman. This marked the second phase of Pacino's career, being the first to feature his now famous dark, owl eyes and hoarse, gravelly voice.
Returning to the Corleones, Pacino made The Godfather Part III (1990) and earned raves for his first comedic role in the colorful adaptation Dick Tracy (1990). This earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and two years later he was nominated for Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). He went into romantic mode for Frankie and Johnny (1991). In 1992, he finally won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his amazing performance in Scent of a Woman (1992). A mixture of technical perfection (he plays a blind man) and charisma, the role was tailor-made for him, and remains a classic.
The next few years would see Pacino becoming more comfortable with acting and movies as a business, turning out great roles in great films with more frequency and less of the demanding personal involvement of his wilder days. Carlito's Way (1993) proved another gangster classic, as did the epic crime drama Heat (1995) directed by Michael Mann and co-starring Robert De Niro. He directed the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Looking for Richard (1996). During this period, City Hall (1996), Donnie Brasco (1997) and The Devil's Advocate (1997) all came out. Reteaming with Mann and then Oliver Stone, he gave commanding performances in The Insider (1999) and Any Given Sunday (1999).
In the 2000s, Pacino starred in a number of theatrical blockbusters, including Ocean's Thirteen (2007), but his choice in television roles (the vicious, closeted Roy Cohn in the HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003) and his sensitive portrayal of Jack Kevorkian, in the television movie You Don't Know Jack (2010)) are reminiscent of the bolder choices of his early career. Each television project garnered him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Never wed, Pacino has a daughter, Julie Marie, with acting teacher Jan Tarrant, and a set of twins with former longtime girlfriend Beverly D'Angelo. His romantic history includes Jill Clayburgh, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Carole Mallory, Debra Winger, Tuesday Weld, Marthe Keller, Carmen Cervera, Kathleen Quinlan, Lyndall Hobbs, Penelope Ann Miller, and a two-decade intermittent relationship with "Godfather" co-star Diane Keaton. He currently lives with Argentinian actress Lucila Solá, who is 36 years his junior.
As of 2022, Pacino is 82-years-old. He has never retired from acting, and continues to appear regularly in film.- Producer
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Andrew Paquin was born in 1977 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is a producer and director, known for Open House (2010), New in Town (2009) and Blue State (2007).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Mimmo Cattarinich was born on 28 June 1937 in Rome, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), Little Lips (1978) and Paradiso Blu (1980). He died on 27 August 2017 in Rome, Italy.- Producer
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Meir is a filmmaker most known for I Spit on Your Grave (1978) about one woman and a group of maniacs. In 2010, Steven R. Monroe directed the remake I Spit on Your Grave (2010) starring Sarah Butler & Jeff Branson. Meir executive produced the film and was an associate producer for the remake as well. Steven R. Monroe also directed I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013) which Meir produced. He has produced two more sequels of the franchise.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Peter Cohn is a director, producer and screenwriter. His debut film was "Drunks," which premiered at Sundance in 1996, and went on to broadcast on Showtime and to a theatrical release in the US and abroad. "Drunks" depicts a group of New Yorkers at a Times Square AA meeting and stars Richard Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Dianne Wiest, Parker Posey, Spalding Gray, and Calista Flockhart. The cast also included Sam Rockwell, in a cameo performance as Richard Lewis's AA sponsee.
Cohn went on to produce and direct documentaries, including "Golden Venture," about Chinese immigrants on the ill-fated freighter that ran aground off New York in 1993; "Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America," about the shocking persistence of gender violence in America, and "Holy Land," a film about Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank. Cohn is an active members of the New Day Films filmmaker distribution cooperative.
Cohn has also written screenplays for MGM, Disney, Fox and a variety of independent producers in the US and abroad. He was a co-founder of the Wall Street Journal parody publication, Off the Wall Street Journal, and produced and edited a series of other parodies and satirical publications in the 1980s. He began his career in daily journalism, at the Richmond Times Dispatch and then the Hartford Courant.
He was born in New Haven, CT and spent his childhood in New York and Washington DC.- Actor
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Michael McDonald was born and raised in Fullerton, Orange County, California. He graduated from USC with a degree in Business and became a loan officer at a bank in Los Angeles. A friend took him to see a sketch comedy/improv show at L.A.'s famous Groundling Theater, and everything changed for him. McDonald quit his job as a banker, enrolled in the Groundling's Improv Program, and became a member of the troupe from 1992 to 1997. His first professional writing and acting jobs came from Concorde Pictures, Roger Corman's infamous low-budget movie studio.
Starting as an extra, McDonald landed small roles in many B-movies of the early 1990s, and he gradually earned bigger roles as well as eventually writing and directing some films. After numerous small roles in various television sitcoms in the mid-1990s, McDonald obtained a starring role on Mad TV (1995).- Actress
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Sophie Marceau was born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu in Paris, France, to Simone (Morisset), a shop assistant, and Benoît Maupu, a truck driver. She grew up far from the studio spotlights. When she was 14 she was living in the Paris suburb of Gentilly with her father. She learned from friends that director Claude Pinoteau was looking for new faces for a movie about teenagers called The Party (1980). She auditioned for the role, got it, and the film was a success. She played in The Party 2 (1982), then bought back her contract with Gaumont when she was 16 years old for one million French francs. She is a critically acclaimed actress, having received the Cesar for Best Feminine Hope for "La Boum 2" in 1983. She was elected Romantic actress for Chouans! (1988) at the Festival International du Film Romantique (International Festival of Romantic Movie) of Cabourg in 1988, and was awarded the Moliere of the Best Theatrical Revelation for "Eurydice et Pygmalion" in 1994.could break the label- Producer
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Leland Thomas is known for Bits and Pieces (1985) and Not Without Reason (2016).- Writer
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Canadian filmmaker Jason Eisener directed, co-wrote and edited the sci-fi horror adventure "Kids vs. Aliens," his second feature film, inspired by his own childhood and shot on location near his hometown of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He made his directorial debut with the 2011 Canuxploitation vigilante epic "Hobo with a Shotgun," starring Rutger Hauer. The cult hit was adapted from his fake trailer of the same name, which won South by Southwest and Robert Rodriguez's international "Grindhouse" trailer contest in 2007.
Eisener is the co-creator, executive producer and director of the groundbreaking hit Vice TV documentary franchise "Dark Side of the Ring," now in its third season. Launched in 2019, the critically-acclaimed flagship series explores untold and controversial stories of professional wrestling and quickly became the #1 rated program in the network's history, spawning spinoff series "Dark Side of the '90s," "Dark Side of Football," and "Dark Side of Comedy."
He also co-created and serves as director and executive producer on the forthcoming Vice TV docuseries "Tales from the Territories," executive produced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Dany Garcia, premiering in Fall 2022.
Genre-obsessed since birth, Eisener's films include the segment "Y is For Youngbuck" for the horror anthology "The ABCs of Death," "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" for "V/H/S/2," the viral underwater horror short "One Last Dive," which was dubbed "The Scariest 1 Minute Movie Ever" and optioned by 20th Century Fox, and the Sundance award-winning Christmas horror short "Treevenge."could break the label- Writer
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Ben Coccio was born on 2 August 1975 in the USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Zero Day (2002) and The Beginner (2010).could break the label- Director
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Laurie Collyer was born in 1967 in Mountainside, New Jersey, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Sherrybaby (2006), Nuyorican Dream (2000) and Sunlight Jr. (2013).could break the label- Camera and Electrical Department
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Jimi Jones is known for Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014), Getting Warmer with Kal Penn (2023) and Touched with Fire (2015).could break the label- Actor
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Steven Frederic Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Patricia Anne (Fisher), a medical technician, and Samuel Seagal, a high school math teacher. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother had English, German, and distant Irish and Dutch, ancestry. The enigmatic Seagal commenced his martial arts training at the age of seven under the tutelage of well-known karate instructor and author Fumio Demura, and in the 1960s commenced his aikido training in Orange County, CA, under the instruction of Harry Ishisaka. Seagal received his first dan accreditation in 1974, after he had moved to Japan to further his martial arts training. After spending many years there honing his skills, he achieved the ranking of a 7th dan in the Japanese martial art "aikido" and was instructing wealthy clients in Los Angeles when he came to the attention of Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz.
Ovitz saw star value in the imposing-looking Seagal. The high-octane action movie genre was in full swing in the late 1980s, and Seagal's debut movie, "Above the Law", was wildly received by action fans and actually received some complimentary critical reviews. He followed up "Above the Law" with another slam-bang thriller, Hard to Kill (1990), as a cop shot in an ambush by the mob who revives from a coma to take his revenge. The movie also starred Seagal's wife at the time, leggy Kelly LeBrock, who was married to him from 1987 to 1996 and is the mother of three of his children. His next outing was battling voodoo-using Jamaican drug "posses" in the hyper-violent Marked for Death (1990), before returning to fight psychotic mob gangster William Forsythe in the even more punishing Out for Justice (1991). Seagal was by now enormously popular, and his next movie, the big-budgeted Under Siege (1992), set aboard the battleship USS Missouri and also starring Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey, was arguably his best film to date, impressing both fans and critics alike.
Seagal's fighting style was rather different from that of other on-screen martial arts dynamos such as Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme, who were predominantly fighters from striking arts background such as karate or tang soo do. However, aikido is built around using an opponent's inertia and body weight to employ various locks, chokes and holds that incapacitate him. Seagal carries himself differently, too, and often appears wearing Italian designer clothes and usually favors an all-black outfit, generally with a three-quarter-length coat with an elaborate trim. Additionally, Seagal's on-screen characters were often seemingly benign or timid individuals; however, when the going gets rough they reveal themselves to be deadly ex-CIA operatives, or retired Special Forces soldiers capable of enormous destruction!
As his box-office drawing power grew, Seagal began to infuse his film projects with his personal and spiritual beliefs, especially concerning the abuse of the environment. He appeared as an oil fire expert who turns against his corrupt CEO (played by Michael Caine) in On Deadly Ground (1994) to save the Eskimo population from an oil disaster; in Fire Down Below (1997) he plays an environmental agency troubleshooter investigating the dumping of toxic waste in Kentucky coal mines, and in the slow-moving The Patriot (1998) he plays a medical specialist trying to stop a lethal virus unleashed by an extremist group.
Action fans struggled to come to terms with social messaging being built into bone-crunching fight films; however, Seagal's box-office clout remained fairly strong, and more traditional chopsocky projects followed with the "buddy cop" film The Glimmer Man (1996), then almost a cameo role as a Navy SEAL alongside CIA analyst Kurt Russell before Seagal is sucked out of a jet at 35,000 feet in Executive Decision (1996).
In 1999 Seagal took a different turn in his film projects with the surprising genteel Prince of Central Park (2000), about a child living inside NYC's most famous park. He returned to more familiar territory with further high-voltage, guns-blazing action in Exit Wounds (2001), Half Past Dead (2002), Out for a Kill (2003) and Belly of the Beast (2003).
Unbeknownst to many, in 1997 Seagal publicly announced that one of his Buddhist teachers, His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, had accorded Seagal as a tulku, the reincarnation of a Buddhist Lama. This initial announcement was met with some disbelief until Penor Rinpoche himself gave a confirmation statement on Seagal's new title. Seagal has repeatedly discussed his involvement in Buddhism and how he devotes many hours studying and meditating this ancient Eastern religion.
While his box-office appeal has somewhat declined from his halcyon blockbusters of the mid-'90s, Seagal still has a very loyal fan base in the action movie genre and continues to remain a highly bankable star.- Writer
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Stephen Belber's plays have been produced on Broadway and in over 25 countries. Additionally, he was an Associate Writer and actor for "The Laramie Project", and co-writer/actor on "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later". Belber has also written and directed three feature films, "Management" (Jennifer Aniston/Woody Harrelson), "Match" (Patrick Stewart/Carla Gugino), and "What We Do Next" (Corey Stoll/Karen Pittman). He has written the movies "Tape" (Ethan Hawke/Uma Thurman, directed by Richard Linklater), "The Laramie Project" (associate writer), "Drifting Elegant", and "O.G.", (Jeffrey Wright, HBO Films). Television credits include "Law & Order SVU", "Rescue Me", "Tommy", "The First", and pilots for Netflix, HBO, F/X, USA, TNT, ABC, History Channel, Fox TV, Paramount and Sony. Has worked on numerous studio films (including "Dallas Buyers Club"), and developed movies with Will Smith, Todd Phillips, Bennett Miller, Jay Roach, George Tillman, Greg Mottola, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anthony Mackie, Sam Rockwell, David Gordon Green, and others.could break the label- Director
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Moisés Kaufman was born in 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela. He is known for The Laramie Project (2002), The L Word (2004) and America on Stage (2013).- Writer
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Skip Woods is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing the screenplay for "Swordfish", the film adaptation of the Hitman video game series, and the 5th installment of the Die Hard franchise, "A Good Day to Die Hard". He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Woods is also a partner in Wetwork Tactical, LLC - a weapons handling and tactics consulting firm; this motivated him to begin writing action films.- Producer
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For the past fifteen years Jonathan Mossek has worked as a Director, Producer and Editor in both film and television. He received his training as a film maker working in news for NBC, covering world global events such as: the Intifada in Gaza and the assassination of PM Rabin, Kosovo, Afganisthan, the Miners story in Chile, the earthquakes in Haiti and most recently he returned from covering the revolution in Egypt and Libya. He also co-created a successful Network show for Grey Advertising, "Shop The World," which was syndicated across the U.S.
He has also worked in documentary both directing and producing, Mossek directed the 3-Part PBS series, "Cuban Masters" and produced, "Have You Heard of The Panthers."
In 2010 Jonathan Mossek's first feature, "As Good as Dead," premiered in L.A. at the Beverly Hills Film Festival and was released theatrically by First Look in October. The movie received a great deal of favourable press both in print and online.
Jonathan Mossek was nominated for Two Emmy Awards for his outstanding work in the News Arena.
Jonathan Mossek is a partner in Major Motion Pictures. In 2017 Major Motion Pictures was a production company on: _Louisiana Caviar_2017 director Cuba Gooding Jr. and _Son of The South_2017 with Barry Alexander Brown directing.- Director
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Frederick R. Friedel is known for Date with a Kidnapper (1976), Axe (1977) and My Next Funeral (2000).- Director
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Robert A. Endelson was born in 1947. He is a director and editor, known for Fight for Your Life (1977) and The Filthiest Show in Town (1973).- Actress
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Laetitia Colombani was born in 1976. She is an actress and writer, known for He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002), The Braid (2023) and Mes stars et moi (2008).could break the label- Director
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Eric Nicholas is a writer-director known for the movies Alone with Her (2006) and River Rats (1995), and for the TV program The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen (2010). He is also the author of "Picture Yourself Directing a Movie: Step-By-Step Instruction for Creating Short Films and More" which was published in 2008.- Editor
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Joel Viertel is known for The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Conventioneers (2005) and The Banker (2020).could break the label- Director
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Sande Zeig is known for The Girl (2000), Le voyage sans fin (1985) and Firelighters: Fire Is Medicine.- Writer
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Gideon Raff was born on 10 September 1972 in Jerusalem, Israel. He is a writer and producer, known for Homeland (2011), The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019) and Prisoners of War (2009).could break the label- Writer
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Giovanni Simonelli was born in 1926. He was a writer and assistant director, known for Conqueror of Maracaibo (1961), The Ten Gladiators (1963) and Assassination in Rome (1965). He died on 17 November 2007 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Producer
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Benjamin Louis was born in Haiti. He is known for Stoker Hills (2020), State's Evidence (2004) and Silk Theory.- Writer
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Guerdon Trueblood is the grandson of General Billy Mitchell, who's the founding father of the U.S. Air Force. Trueblood attended George Wastington University in Virginia. He achieved his greatest success as a solid and dependable television writer. Trueblood has written scripts for such TV shows as "The Young Rebels," "Adam-12," "The Young Lawyers," "The Streets of San Francisco," and "Automan." In addition, Trueblood wrote the screenplays for the excellent psycho Vietnam veterans exploitation winner "Welcome Home, Soldier Boys" and the gritty Western "The Last Hard Men;" Trueblood also was an associate producer of the latter movie. Moreover, Trueblood penned the scripts for the 70s made-for-TV killer animal fright features "The Savage Bees," "It Happened at Lakewood Manor," "Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo," and "Terror Out of the Sky." He also supplied the story for "Jaws 3-D." Trueblood made a rare foray into theatrical film directing with the terrifically rough and sleazy 70s grindhouse crime cult classic "The Candy Snatchers." Trueblood's college friend Vincent Martorano portrays a dim-witted kidnapper in the picture and his son Christopher appears as a little autistic boy. Trueblood's other son Guerdon is a highly successful digital effects artist/compositor.- Director
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Cassandra Nicolaou is known for Interviews with My Next Girlfriend (2002), Show Me (2004) and Why I'll Never Trust You (In 200 Words or Less) (1995).- Writer
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Edward Anderson was born in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Edward is known for Flawless (2007), Shuttle (2008) and Apteros.- Writer
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Mo Ogrodnik was born in 1966. Mo is a writer and director, known for Deep Powder (2013), Uptown Girls (2003) and Ripe (1996).- Sanja Spasojevic is known for A Serbian Film (2010) and Chris Smith Tonight (2020).
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Pier Giuseppe Murgia was born on 6 December 1940 in Sterzing, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for La festa perduta (1981), La piovra (1984) and Incontro d'amore (1970).- Writer
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Jake is the writer/director of arguably the greatest film ever made on a Thursday morning before 11:03, Nundercover. He also wrote and directed the Edsel of sexy thrillers, Oral Fixation, which remains, however, very popular with young men in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.
Jake is the Grand Prize Winner of American Zoetrope's inaugural Screenplay Contest, the top ten finalists of which were judged by Francis Ford Coppola, from whom he received a nice letter and some dough.
He is a recipient of a Development Loan from Bord Scannan na hEireann/irish Film Board for his feature film, The Fergus Cycle.
His feature script, DEADLY DELUSION, was purchased and produced by Formula Features. Directed by Nadeem Soumah, it stars Haylie Duff, Teri Polo, Mike Faiola and Louis Mandylor. Production wrapped in April 2017. Premiered on LIFETIME, 1/13/18.
His scripts have been optioned by a bunch of Hollywood, NYC, Irish producers, including Norman Twain (Lean on Me), Jane Startz (Ella Enchanted), Isen Robbins at Intrinsic Value Films, Princ Films, Ken Schapiro (Alchemy), Dawn Wolfrom.
He won for Best Screenplay, New York Film Fleadh, 2001.- Director
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Robert Parigi is known for Love Object (2003), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) and Beavis and Butt-Head (1993).- Director
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Joseph Ellison was born in Manhattan in 1948, where he first fell in love with music, especially the diverse sounds of Hank Williams Sr, Thelonious Monk, and The Maguire Sisters. His Texas born father instilled a strong sense of morality in him while moving him around the nation. He recalls his childhood as being largely uneventful and typical, which is a far cry from the type of childhood depicted in his most famous work. "Don't Go in the House", where a sadistic mother punishes her son by burning him. By the 1960s he fell in love with movies, particularly the art films of Fellini. Due to this he decided to become a filmmaker. After leaving New York University in 1971 he toyed around in various post production projects for smaller films. It was during this time that director George A. Romero asked him to be in his 1973 viral horror classic "The Crazies", but was unable to do so do to scheduling conflicts. He spent the next several years working on various exploitation films until 1980 when he was finally able to make his own movie. "Don't Go in the House" was a grim and sickening variation on Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960) about a young man who is severely abused by his mother. Every time the boy misbehaves the mother burns the poor boy. When she finally dies he loses his mind and begins kidnapping young women and setting the on fire with a flamethrower in order to get back at his mother. "Don't Go in the House" came out at a time when the horror genre was being attacked by feminist on grounds of it being misogynistic and Ellison's film, along with William Lustig's "Maniac" made the same year (even though "Don't Go in the House" was shot earlier) was seen as the two prime examples to why the genre was dangerous. Critics were no better, calling it "lurid trash" and "sickening" amongst other things. Some critics even went as far to suggest that both the audience and the creators of this film were sick, deranged people. Ellison himself recalls just how strongly the audience reacted to his film. One time the director went to a double feature of "Friday the 13th" and "Don't Go in the House" in New York. While "Friday the 13th" was playing, the audience screamed and cheered; they were having a good time. However, when "Don't Go in the House" was played the audience sat there not moving. Ellison had made a film that was so effective it took the audience out of their comfort zone. It would be another six years before Ellison made another film, and it wasn't a horror film. The little seen drama "Joey" came and went without all the outrage that had accompanied Ellison's debut effort. After the release of "Joey", Ellison retired from filmmaking.- Actor
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Christopher Denham was born in Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Argo (2012), Shutter Island (2010) and Billions (2016).- Producer
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Tom Garrett is a producer of independent feature films and a founding partner of Circa Films, a sales and distribution company engaged in production and international distribution of independent feature films. Over a 20-year period Tom has been credited as a producer on 14 feature films. He has intimate knowledge of the legal and financial issues involved in feature film production, having produced, directed and delivered films to the international marketplace. He has also served as a consultant on production issues, budgets, financing, guilds and unions, and legal affairs on projects ranging from low-budget independents to studio-level pictures.
Tom's films have screened at many prestigious film festivals worldwide, including Berlin, Cannes, Florence, Rotterdam and Toronto. For two decades he has played an active role with Circa Films at the Cannes Marche du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, MIFED (Milan International Film Fair of Exhibitors and Distributors) and AFM-American Film Market.
With an M.F.A from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts- Graduate Film program, Tom has worked as line producer, unit production manager and executive producer for a number of noted directors, including Academy Award winner Jean-Charles Tacchella (Cousin, Cousine (1975), Seven Sundays (1994)) and Alex Cox (Sid and Nancy (1986), Repo Man (1984). He has also worked with such well-known producers as Daniel Toscan du Plantier and Art Linson. Tom has been a part of numerous international co-productions. He has worked with many of the film industry's noted personalities, including such distinguished cinematographers as Mario García Joya (Strawberry & Chocolate (1993)), Carlo Varini (Subway (1985)) and Jan de Bont (Die Hard (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Black Rain (1989)) and such respected actors as Rod Steiger, Gary Oldman and Thierry Lhermitte.
Tom produced and directed Death Collector (1988), aka "Tin Star Void", a sci-fi western apocalyptic film from a screenplay by John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan, Hitchcock, Parker, Coma) that has been been called a "cult classic" by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to his feature film career, Tom has worked as a producer and director for such prominent advertising agencies and public relations firms as Chiat-Day/Mojo, JWT, BBD&O and with such clients as Chanel, Reebok, Tag Heuer, Publix and Calvin Klien. His clients have also included Def Jam and Sony Records, where he produced music videos for the likes of Run-D.M.C. and U2.
Tom and his late wife, Lee Morse, owned Best West Productions, a production service company that had brought many feature films to the West Coast of Florida, among them such notable productions as Great Expectations (1998) (Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert De Niro) and Palmetto (1998) (Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue and Gina Gershon). Lee Morse (I)' was a producer and production coordinator.
In the summer of 2007 Tom attended a Directors Masters Class taught by Martin Scorsese at the Cannes Film Festival.
Tom has taught film production at NYU - Tisch School of the Arts, State College of Florida, University of Tampa and was the founding film program coordinator at Sam Houston State University's (a Carnegie Doctoral Research University) College of Fine Arts and Mass Communication where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses. Tom is Chair in the Department of Communication, Film & Media Studies at The University of New Haven. In addition, Tom continues to coordinate a world class program for students and media professionals at the Cannes Film Festival annually; 'Business of Film and the International Market'. Tom lives in Milford, Connecticut and Sarasota, Florida.- Director
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Ralph De Vito was a director and writer, known for The Death Collector (1976). He died on 24 January 1983 in New York City, New York, USA.- Director
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Cæcilia Holbek Trier was born on 16 April 1953 in Denmark. She was a director and actress, known for Send mere slik (2001), Agnus Dei (1997) and Europa (1991). She was married to Lars von Trier. She died on 21 November 2023 in Denmark.could break the label- Producer
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David Hollander was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Mount Lebanon High School and Sewickley Academy before going to Northwestern University. He began his career as a playwright before turning his attention to film and television. He has served on the faculty of the USC Graduate Screenwriting Program.- Actor
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Adam Arkin was born on 19 August 1956 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Get Shorty (2017), A Serious Man (2009) and Sons of Anarchy (2008).- Director
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Peter Care was born in 1953. He is known for The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), Johnny YesNo (1982) and R.E.M.: Man on the Moon (1992).- Director
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Marcus Reichert, born in 1948, is an artist of various disciplines, inlcuding painting and film-making. His works are held in many important collections throughout the world and have been written about extensively. The first neo-noir, Reichert's film Union City (1980) was hailed by Lawrence O'Toole, film critic for Maclean's Magazine, as "an unqualified masterpiece." Reichert was given his first solo exhibition at the age of 21 at the legendary Gotham Book Mart and Art Gallery, New York, home to the Surrealists during WWII. In 1990 he was honored with a retrospective of his painting organized by the Hatton Gallery of the University of Newcastle, Great Britain which toured in various forms to Glasgow, London, Paris, and the United States. His Crucifixion paintings have been described by Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford, as being among the most disturbing painted last century, while the American critic Donald Kuspit has written that both Picasso's and Bacon's pale in comparison. Reichert's film works are held in the Archive of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He is also the author of three novels: Verdon Angster, Hoboken, and The Miracle of Fontana's Monkey.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Franck Vestiel was born on 18 January 1971 in Paris, France. He is an assistant director and director, known for Femme Fatale (2002), Eden Log (2007) and Them (2006).- Writer
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Caroline du Potet is known for In Their Sleep (2010), Son visage (2021) and Et toi, c'est pour quand? (2022).- Writer
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Éric du Potet is known for In Their Sleep (2010), Son visage (2021) and Et toi, c'est pour quand? (2022).- Producer
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Todd G. Bieber is known for Jordan Klepper Solves Guns (2017), Gary Saves the Graveyard (2014) and The Opposition with Jordan Klepper (2017).- Production Manager
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Joshua Logan is an award-winning director, writer, and producer who has worked in every position in movies over more than a hundred feature films. Growing up in Austin, Texas, he started taking the city bus to work backstage in theater at the age of twelve, and transitioned into movies with every opportunity, working in any department that would have him, learning the art and craft of filmmaking by essentially doing everything.
From building big rubber monsters, animatronics and prosthetics, blowing up helicopters, supervising sound design, and composing film scores, to supervising post production for major studios, writing and re-writing screenplays, shooting documentaries, producing and directing short and long form content - the only thing Josh has ever wanted to do is make movies with his friends.
And he only talks about himself in third person on IMDb.- Director
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Ivan Boeckmans was born in 1973 in Antwerp, Belgium. He is a director and producer, known for Suspect (2005), Mexico ofzo (1996) and Kassablanka (2002).- Director
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Linda Feferman is known for Seven Minutes in Heaven (1986), The Blues Brothers (1980) and Linda's Film on Menstruation (1974).- Director
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Hélène Cattet was born in 1976 in Paris, France. She is a director and writer, known for Amer (2009), The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013) and Let the Corpses Tan (2017).could break the label- Director
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Rajnesh Domalpalli comes from Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh in South India. He was born in Chennai, but spent his childhood in small rural towns associated with dam construction projects where his father worked as a civil engineer for the Andhra government.
After completing his B. Tech in EE from the IIT Mumbai in 1984 and an MS from SUNY, SB in 1986 he worked as a Computer Engineer in California's Silicon Valley before deciding to take up Film at Columbia University in New York and graduating with an MFA in 2006.
"Vanaja" is not only his first Feature but also his Thesis at Columbia. Rajnesh loves writing, and feels that it is the greatest challenge in making a good film. While at the IIT, he had dabbled in penning short stories during his spare time, and one of these, "The Dowry" was eventually picked up and broadcast by BBC's World Service in Sept 1984 and Aug 1989. College was also where he was introduced to South Indian classical music on the veena, before following it up with several years of training in the vocal tradition.
Rajnesh's other passions are photographing with friends in the California Sierras and wildlife. He currently lives in Hyderabad.- Actor
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Klaus Kinski was born as Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski in Zoppot, Free City of Danzig (now Sopot, Poland), to Susanne (Lutze), a nurse, and Bruno Nakszynski, a pharmacist. He grew up in Berlin, was drafted into the German army in 1944 and captured by British forces in Holland. After the war he began acting on the stage, quickly gaining a reputation for a ferocious talent and an equally ferocious temper. He started acting in films shortly afterward, showing an utter disregard for the quality of the productions he appeared in and churning out so many that a complete filmography is almost impossible to assemble.
However, he did turn out memorable work for director Werner Herzog, a similarly driven and obsessive character. Herzog and Kinski pushed each other to extremes over a 15-year working relationship, which finally ended after filming Cobra Verde (1987), a production plagued by volcanic clashes between the star and director, involving--among other things--violent physical altercations and mutual death threats. He subsequently directed and starred in the notorious Paganini (1989), his only film as director and which was marked by (again) clashes between Kinski and his producers, who accused him of turning their movie into a pornographic film and sued him in court. His autobiography, "All I Need is Love", a vicious attack on the film industry, was withdrawn for legal reasons and subsequently re-released as "Kinski Uncut" in the US & UK, "Ich brauche Liebe" in Germany, and in various other languages.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Noam Gonick was born on 20 March 1973 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is an assistant director and director, known for Hey, Happy! (2001), Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight (1997) and Stryker (2004).could break the label- Actor
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Steve Jacobs was born on 8 January 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Disgrace (2008), La spagnola (2001) and The Man You Know (1984). He is married to Anna Maria Monticelli.could break the label- Producer
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Sean Durkin was born on 9 December 1981 in Canada. He is a producer and director, known for Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), The Nest (2020) and The Iron Claw (2023).could break the label- Actor
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Bobby Garabedian is known for Most (2003), No More Kings: Sweep the Leg (2007) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1996). He is married to Elkin Antoniou G. They have two children.- Writer
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Filmmaker Magazine rated her #1 in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004!
She is a performance artist and published short story writer. Since becoming a filmmaker, her debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) has won several film awards.
Daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger, writers and publishers who founded North Atlantic Books.could break the label- Producer
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Johan Vandewoestijne was born on August 26th 1961 in Kortrijk Belgium (Europe) At very young age he showed interest for television and cinema. He studied chemistry and afterwards he went to a filmschool in Brussels.The filmschool was a great disappointment since he always said and today more than ever, that cinema is much more entertainment than it is art. At the filmschool they claimed the opposite. So very rapidly he understood that this was not a place for him to stay. So he left after two years. He joined a video production team by the name of Acces Video and assisted with the lighting of corporate videos. In 1985 he left the company to start up a feature film project entitled " Lucker " which became a cult classic very soon. In 1988 he produced " Rabid Grannies ". Troma inc picked up the film and did the distribution upon this day. It was a 20 year contract and when that was expired Michael Herz asked him to prolonged it with another 20 years. In 1988 Lloyd Kaufman from Troma Inc asked him " to do something about his name ". " Vandewoestijne " means " from the desert " Lloyd said that " Vandewoestijne " for others than Flemish or Dutch, was difficult to pronounce so Johan changed his name into " James Desert " Till today Johan ( or James if you like) is producing and directing low budget horror and exploitation films, always English spoken. That's why some people also name him " The Roger Corman " of the low countries " a surname he seems to like. For many years his films were distributed by Troma Inc but the last five years he has a collaboration with Jeffrey Swanson of SGL entertainment located in Concord California.- Director
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Yotta Kasai was born on November 5, 1987 in Japan. He is a Japanese film director, writer, producer and painter, known for The Viscera (2013), Feeding the Flesh (2013), Methadone and Amphetamine (2014) and Crown of the Archons (2017). He has directed various short films, videos and music videos. He graduated from the Sydney Film School in Australia in 2010. Self-produced short films established his reputation as an innovative filmmaker and allowed him to direct his first feature-length film.- Producer
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Satoru Ogura is known for Nanase: The Psychic Wanderers (2010), Doraibingu Hai! (1993) and Lang zai ji (2009).- Writer
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Hideshi Hino was born on 19 April 1946 in Manchuria, China. He is a writer and director, known for Bara no Meikyu (2014), Kyoufu ressha (2004) and Jigoku kozô (2004).- Writer
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Carlton J. Albright was born on 8 July 1940 in the USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Luther the Geek (1989), The Children (1980) and Dreams Come True (1984). He is married to Patricia Albright. They have three children.- Director
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Glendyn Ivin is one of Australia's leading directors in television, film and commercials. He was recently listed in The Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australian televisions 'Most Powerful and Influential'.
Glendyn came to attention with the short film CRACKER BAG, winning the Palme d'Or in 2003 at the Cannes Film Festival. Glendyn's first feature film, LAST RIDE, starred Hugo Weaving and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won Best New Narrative Director at The Abu Dhabi Film Festival and the Jury Prize at the Rome International Film Festival.
For television, Glendyn's credits include the telemovie BEACONSFIELD, PUBERTY BLUES Series 1 and 2 for which Glendyn was set up director, winning the 2012 AACTA award for Best TV Drama Series. In 2014 Glendyn directed the 7 part World War I drama GALLIPOLI and in 2015 set up and directed THE BEAUTIFUL LIE (Eps 1-3), which was nominated for the 2016 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama and Nine AACTA Awards, including Best Mini-Series.
In 2016 Glendyn set up and directed THE SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY (Episodes 1 and 2) starring Alex Dimetriades and Hugo Weaving. The series won Glendyn the 2017 AACTA award for Best Direction in Television and the series 6 AACTA Awards overall.
In 2017 Glendyn directed the critically acclaimed SAFE HARBOUR nominated for 6 Logie Awards including Most Outstanding Drama and 8 AACTA Awards, including Best Direction in Television and Best Miniseries.
Glendyn most recently directed the BBC1 hit drama THE CRY starring Jenna Coleman and Ewen Leslie.could break the label- Director
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Amardeep Kaleka was born on 12 July 1978 in Patiala, Punjab, India. He is an editor and director, known for Sirius (2013), Baby Blues (2008) and Wamba (2010).- Producer
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Caryn Krooth was born on 1 February 1969 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Quiz Show (1994), Jaded (1998) and Just Cause (1995).- Actor
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With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and one day be the Governor of California!?
The amazing story of megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger is a true "rags to riches" tale of a penniless immigrant making it in the land of opportunity, the United States of America. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born July 30, 1947, in the town of Thal, Styria, Austria, to Aurelia Schwarzenegger (born Jadrny) and Gustav Schwarzenegger, the local police chief. From a young age, he took a keen interest in physical fitness and bodybuilding, going on to compete in several minor contests in Europe. However, it was when he emigrated to the United States in 1968 at the tender age of 21 that his star began to rise.
Up until the early 1970s, bodybuilding had been viewed as a rather oddball sport, or even a mis-understood "freak show" by the general public, however two entrepreneurial Canadian brothers Ben Weider and Joe Weider set about broadening the appeal of "pumping iron" and getting the sport respect, and what better poster boy could they have to lead the charge, then the incredible "Austrian Oak", Arnold Schwarzenegger. Over roughly the next decade, beginning in 1970, Schwarzenegger dominated the sport of competitive bodybuilding winning five Mr. Universe titles and seven Mr. Olympia titles and, with it, he made himself a major sports icon, he generated a new international audience for bodybuilding, gym memberships worldwide swelled by the tens of thousands and the Weider sports business empire flourished beyond belief and reached out to all corners of the globe. However, Schwarzenegger's horizons were bigger than just the landscape of bodybuilding and he debuted on screen as "Arnold Strong" in the low budget Hercules in New York (1970), then director Bob Rafelson cast Arnold in Stay Hungry (1976) alongside Jeff Bridges and Sally Field, for which Arnold won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture". The mesmerizing Pumping Iron (1977) covering the 1975 Mr Olympia contest in South Africa has since gone on to become one of the key sports documentaries of the 20th century, plus Arnold landed other acting roles in the comedy The Villain (1979) opposite Kirk Douglas, and he portrayed Mickey Hargitay in the well- received TV movie The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980).
What Arnold really needed was a super hero / warrior style role in a lavish production that utilized his chiseled physique, and gave him room to show off his growing acting talents and quirky humor. Conan the Barbarian (1982) was just that role. Inspired by the Robert E. Howard short stories of the "Hyborean Age" and directed by gung ho director John Milius, and with a largely unknown cast, save Max von Sydow and James Earl Jones, "Conan" was a smash hit worldwide and an inferior, although still enjoyable sequel titled Conan the Destroyer (1984) quickly followed. If "Conan" was the kick start to Arnold's movie career, then his next role was to put the pedal to the floor and accelerate his star status into overdrive. Director James Cameron had until that time only previously directed one earlier feature film titled Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), which stank of rotten fish from start to finish. However, Cameron had penned a fast paced, science fiction themed film script that called for an actor to play an unstoppable, ruthless predator - The Terminator (1984). Made on a relatively modest budget, the high voltage action / science fiction thriller The Terminator (1984) was incredibly successful worldwide, and began one of the most profitable film franchises in history. The dead pan phrase "I'll be back" quickly became part of popular culture across the globe. Schwarzenegger was in vogue with action movie fans, and the next few years were to see Arnold reap box office gold in roles portraying tough, no-nonsense individuals who used their fists, guns and witty one-liners to get the job done. The testosterone laden Commando (1985), Raw Deal (1986), Predator (1987), The Running Man (1987) and Red Heat (1988) were all box office hits and Arnold could seemingly could no wrong when it came to picking winning scripts. The tongue-in-cheek comedy Twins (1988) with co-star Danny DeVito was a smash and won Arnold new fans who saw a more comedic side to the muscle- bound actor once described by Australian author / TV host Clive James as "a condom stuffed with walnuts". The spectacular Total Recall (1990) and "feel good" Kindergarten Cop (1990) were both solid box office performers for Arnold, plus he was about to return to familiar territory with director James Cameron in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The second time around for the futuristic robot, the production budget had grown from the initial film's $6.5 million to an alleged $100 million for the sequel, and it clearly showed as the stunning sequel bristled with amazing special effects, bone-crunching chases & stunt sequences, plus state of the art computer-generated imagery. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) was arguably the zenith of Arnold's film career to date and he was voted "International Star of the Decade" by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
Remarkably, his next film Last Action Hero (1993) brought Arnold back to Earth with a hard thud as the self-satirizing, but confusing plot line of a young boy entering into a mythical Hollywood action film confused movie fans even more and they stayed away in droves making the film an initial financial disaster. Arnold turned back to good friend, director James Cameron and the chemistry was definitely still there as the "James Bond" style spy thriller True Lies (1994) co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold was the surprise hit of 1994! Following the broad audience appeal of True Lies (1994), Schwarzenegger decided to lean towards more family-themed entertainment with Junior (1994) and Jingle All the Way (1996), but he still found time to satisfy his hard-core fan base with Eraser (1996), as the chilling "Mr. Freeze" in Batman & Robin (1997) and battling dark forces in the supernatural action of End of Days (1999). The science fiction / conspiracy tale The 6th Day (2000) played to only mediocre fan interest, and Collateral Damage (2002) had its theatrical release held over for nearly a year after the tragic events of Sept 11th 2001, but it still only received a lukewarm reception.
It was time again to resurrect Arnold's most successful franchise and, in 2003, Schwarzenegger pulled on the biker leathers for the third time for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). Unfortunately, directorial duties passed from James Cameron to Jonathan Mostow and the deletion of the character of "Sarah Connor" aka Linda Hamilton and a change in the actor playing "John Connor" - Nick Stahl took over from Edward Furlong - making the third entry in the "Terminator" series the weakest to date.
Schwarzenegger married TV journalist Maria Shriver in April, 1986 and the couple have four children.
In October of 2003 Schwarzenegger, running as a Republican, was elected Governor of California in a special recall election of then governor Gray Davis. The "Governator," as Schwarzenegger came to be called, held the office until 2011. Upon leaving the Governor's mansion it was revealed that he had fathered a child with the family's live-in maid and Shriver filed for divorce.
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