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For 40 years, Sean Ferrer has worked in all aspects of motion picture development, production, post-production and marketing. After taking a short sabbatical to create a series of charities dedicated to continuing his mother's humanitarian legacy, Sean directed and produced a one-man feature documentary titled, Racehoss (2001). Shot on HDTV, Racehoss (2001) is based on the highly successful biography by Albert Race Sample currently being developed as a feature by Mike Judge. Sean also executive produced of the award winning Australian mini series Cloudstreet (2011), based on the Australian best selling novel by Tim Winton. He is also the executive producer of Living the Blues (2010), a documentary about blues singers and musicians. Previously, Sean produced the motion picture Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991) raising the $6 mill budget independently. The film stars Alfre Woodard, Jill Clayburgh, Allison Elliot, Tess Harper and Charles S. Dutton. Directed by Ivan Passer, Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991) is set in the 1950's and chronicles the relationship between an African American mother and her white adopted daughter. Sean was also producer _Stranger's Kiss (1983)_ (starring 'Victoria Tennant' and Peter Coyote (Orion Pictures)) and Good to Go (1986) (starring Art Garfunkel (Island Pictures)). Sean's other production credits include: 1st AD. on Blood In, Blood Out (1993) (directed by Taylor Hackford); 2nd Unit U.P.M./ls1 AD. on Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992); Executive Director on Eye of the Widow (1991) (starring F. Murray Abraham, Ben Cross, Rick Young and Annabel Schofield); 1st AD./2nd Unit Supervisor on Old Gringo (1989) (directed by Luis Puenzo, starring Jane Fonda and Gregory Peck); Associate Producer on Ironweed (1987) (directed by Hector Babenco, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep); Director of Post-Production, Marketing and Foreign Servicing for Keith Barish Productions on Light of Day (1987) (starring Michael J. Fox) and The Running Man (1987) (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger). Other credits include: Treasure of the Moon Goddess (1987) (Hemdale), Bad Manners (1984) (Disney), They All Laughed (1981) (starring Audrey Hepburn and John Ritter), One Shoe Makes It Murder (1982) (starring Robert Mitchum and Angie Dickinson), Inchon (1981) (directed by Terence Young, starring Lawrence Olivier and Jacqueline Bisset). Sean has also produced music videos for Sade ("Paradise") and Joan Jett ("Light of Day"). Sean directed the live broadcast and was a founding member of the "American Cinema Awards." Educated in Europe, Sean is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is a Swiss-born writer, ufologist, television presenter and producer. He is a proponent of the pseudo-archaeological theory that ancient alien astronauts interacted with ancient humans. He is best known for his appearances on the television series Ancient Aliens. Tsoukalos also hosted the H2 series In Search of Aliens, which ran for one season in 2014.

In 2021 he appeared as himself on the television series Resident Alien.

Dominique Devenport was born in 1996 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Davos 1917 (2023), Sisi: Austrian Empress (2021) and Night Train to Lisbon (2013).

Kevin Creekman was born on 17 July 1988 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Kevin is an actor, known for Disaster Man (2022), Bad Wolves: Killing Me Slowly (2019) and Illustrated Man (2016).

He just finished his first independent feature film in America where he stars as "Mickey" in "Smile Now, Cry Later" and Patrick won the "Best Actor" award at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA during the "CineRockom" Film Festival in October 2013. Patrick sang and co-produced three songs for the "Smile Now, Cry Later" soundtrack.

He co-stars as "Adalric" in the provocative short film, "Crescendo" that won 11 International Film Festival Honors and is Executive Produced by Pattie Mallette (Justin Bieber's Mom).

He became famous with numerous Top Ten hits from his two pop/rock Albums "Welcome" & "Superglue" on Warner Music and his third Album, a self-titled CD, called "Nuo" for SONY BMG. His song "Undone" was chosen as the theme song for the Warner Bros. blockbuster hit, family film, Scooby Doo 2. For his music, Patrick has won the Bravo Otto Award & Radio Regenbogen Award.

Patrick became even more popular on German TV with hit shows on RTL including: "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" with Patrick as the Judge (Germany's version of "American Idol).

Ueli Christen was born on 21 April 1962 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an editor and assistant director, known for The Wave (2008), Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) and Gladbeck (2018).

Swiss professional wrestler known for his work for Ring of Honor, CHIKARA, CZW, IWA Mid-South, Pro Wrestling Guerilla and many other promotions under his own name and for WWE as Cesaro, formerly Antonio Cesaro. Debuted in 2000 and competed all over Europe, debuting in the U.S. in 2004. He and Chris Hero (Chris Spradlin) formed the Kings of Wrestling in CHIKARA and would go on to be the inaugural CHIKARA Campeones de Parejas (tag team champions). They would also be 2x ROH World Tag Team Champions, 2x CZW World Tag Team Champions, 1x JCW (Juggalo Championship Wrestling, the Insane Clown Posse's promotion in Michigan) Tag Team Champions, and, in 2010, Dave Meltzer's "The Wrestling Observer Newsletter" named them the Tag Team of the Year. He has also been a PWG World Heavyweight Champion, a WWE United States Heavyweight Champion and a 4x WWE Tag Team Champion (1x w/Tyson Kidd (T.J. Wilson) and 3x w/Sheamus (Stephen Farrelly)).

Thomas Imbach was born on 19 December 1962 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a producer and director, known for Mary Queen of Scots (2013), Happiness Is a Warm Gun (2001) and Day Is Done (2011).

American leading man and character actor of the silent period. Born in Crystal City, Missouri(though a number of popular reference works list Switzerland and Kokomo, Indiana). He is listed in the 1880 census as living in Kokomo at the age of two years. This means his date of birth must have been 1878. His father, Paul Santschi was born in Sigriswill, Switzerland and came to the U.S. as a child. Tom Santschi promoted the myth that he was born in Switzerland since it seemed much more exciting than being born in Crystal City or Kokomo. After performing as an amateur actor, he made his professional stage debut at age 19, and worked for the next decade in the theatre. He landed a small role in a film produced by Selig Polyscope, and over the next few years rose from bit player to leading man. He directed and wrote a few of his films. Following the First World War, he became more frequently seen in supporting roles, often as villains. He worked consistently until his death in 1931.

In 2024, Marcel Barsotti made his debut as a film director with the highly awarded international short film "Transformation", a dystopian elaborate science fiction production that deals with the question of the extent to which life can find peace in this universe or whether living beings are fundamentally capable of doing so. The movie started 2024 worldwide to international festivals, awarded with the renowned Honorary Award on the International Peace Festival in Canada and just with best reviews like "A masterpiece / A brilliant movie". Barsotti began working as a music video director on various projects in 2020 and received the David Award (2023) for his electronic music video "The New Human" and the Onkyo Award (2023) for "Fields".

Multi-award winning composer Marcel Barsotti is an impressive and extraordinary talent who creates powerful individual film scores and electronic music that expand the possibilities of storytelling. The composer is known for a wide range of international projects, from the impressive highly awarded international drama La Línea Imaginaria (2023), to the acclaimed Constantin Production Pope Joan (2009) and The Miracle of Bern (2003), the dystopian thriller Forgiveness (2022), to the Warner family entertainment comedy Jesus Loves Me (2012) and to the german documentary Germany. A Summer's fairytale (2006).

Barsotti's numerous more than 80 wins & nominations include the German Record Critics Award, Rome & Madrid International Movie Award, New York Cinematography Award, Goldspire International Film Award, Atlantis Moondance Award, nominations at the Cannes World Film Festival, International Sound & Film Music Festival, Next Generation Indie Film Awards, Global Film Festival Los Angeles, German Television Award, German Film Academy Award, German Film Critics Award and the German Music Authors Award.

Since 1995 Barsotti has composed the scores for more than 100 national and international movies & commercials. During these years he worked with famous collaborations like Carl Schenkel, Josée Dayan, Luc Besson Production, Sönke Wortmann, Constantin, Caroline Link (Oscar), Warner and Universal.

Judith Kennel was born in 1958 in Root, Lucerne, Switzerland. She is a director and assistant director, known for Zornige Küsse (2000), Steinschlag (2005) and Letzte Spur Berlin (2012).

The son of Austrian political figure, Prince Ernst Ruediger von Starhemberg and Austrian stage and screen actress Nora Gregor, Prince Heinrich (von) Starhemberg joined his parents in Latin American exile after the 1938 Nazi annexation of Austria. Originally a student of law and philosophy, Starhemberg became interested in acting during his college years. Since 1964 he has been a well-known producer, director and actor in the four countries he resides in: Spain, Austria, Chile and Argentina. In addition to his Madrid-based Nora Productions, Starhemberg has appeared in over forty film and television roles and on many Latin American and European stages, often under the name Heinrich or Henry Gregor. Starhemberg has made the family castle in Eferding, Austria home to his Eferding Cultural Institute, which hosts international symposia on European culture and sociopolitics. A novelist and playwright as well, Strahemberg's stage works have been produced in several languages in Austria, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile and Argentina.

Andrea Staka was born in 1973 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is a producer and director, known for Mare (2020), Fraulein (2006) and Cure: The Life of Another (2014).

Michael Koch is a young Swiss actor who received his training at the Actor's Academy at the "Junges Theater Basel", in Switzerland. Some of his many theater credits include the leading role in "Playboy of the Western World", featured at the Theaterspektakel in Zürich. He also played in "Die Schaukel", a theater play which won the 2001 Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Impulse Off-Theater Festival, and was invited to the prestigious Vienna Festwochen in 2002. His notable debut in cinema was in the motion picture "Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!" ("Ready, Steady, Charlie!"). A Swiss movie which became, during its 8 weeks of theater projection in Switzerland, the most successful film for years to be released in the country. It was nominated for the 2004 Swiss Film Prize.

Emil Steinberger was born on 6 January 1933 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an actor and writer, known for Kassettenliebe (1981), Die Schweizermacher (1978) and The Formula (1980). He has been married to Niccel Kristuf since 28 May 1999. He was previously married to Maya Rudin.

Edith Mathis was born on 11 February 1938 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Die Hochzeit des Figaro (1967). She was married to Bernhard Klee and Heinz Slunecko. She died on 9 February 2025 in Salzburg, Austria.

Tobias Ineichen was born on 18 May 1964 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Tage im Galopp (1993), Clara and the Secret of the Bears (2013) and Sonjas Rückkehr (2006).

After studies of law and journalism entered film production as assistant to Maximilian Schell in 1971, production manager since 1975. Own production service company Unicorn Films founded in 1985. Worked with Fred Zinnemann, Jean-Jacques Annaud and on various James Bond action sequences. Lectures at University Siegen on film production.

Andreas Karrer was born on 20 February 1977 in Sursee, Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an editor, known for Star Trek: Short Treks (2018), Star Trek: Discovery (2017) and Only in Hollywood (2002).

Gerd Gockell was born 1960 in Darmstadt; from 1980-87 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brunswick; he worked as a freelance animator for the "HR-Hessische Rundfunk" Frankfurt; 1988 he moved to London and worked on several film projects; in 1990 he founded the ANIGRAF film production with Kirsten Winter in Hanover; various teaching appointments since 1992, including e. g. the Academy of Fine Arts in Brunswick, Ngee Ann Polytechnics in Singapore, Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and 2002-2011 Head of the Animation Dept. at the University of aplied Sience and Arts Lucerne, Switzerland; 2009 he founded the "Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion"; lives and works in Hanover and Lucerne.

Gorgeous, buxom, and shapely brunette knockout Jolanda Egger was born on January 8, 1960 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She's the daughter of a Swiss filmmaker. Jolanda has lived in Spain, Germany, and Switzerland while working as a model, actress, or stewardess. Egger was the Playmate of the Month in the June, 1983 issue of "Playboy." She has acted in a couple of movies and made a guest appearance on an episode of a TV show. Jolanda married race car driver Marc Surer in 1986; she divorced Surer seven years later. Egger then married Patrick Tavioli in 1997; the couple had two children before splitting up in 2004. Jolanda married hotel owner Jacques Risi on her 50th birthday on January 8, 2010.

Alexandra Datig was born on 5 December 1969 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), The Works (1996) and Marijuana: A Chronic History (2010).

Thelma Morgan was born on 23 August 1904 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for So This Is Marriage? (1924), A Society Scandal (1924) and Any Woman (1925). She was married to Marmaduke Furness and James Converse. She died on 29 January 1970 in Culver City, California, USA.

Fritz Muri was born in 1955 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a writer and director, known for Eye Opener (2013), Smoke Alarm and Pulp Kitchen (2010).

Chris Bucher was born on 28 October 1987 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for King Courage (2012), Tyfelstei: An Alpine Horror Tale (2014) and Requiem: Three Tales of Horror (2024).