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Jesse Zigelstein
Toronto native Jesse Zigelstein's debut film Nose to Tail (2019) screened at the 9th annual Napa Valley Film Festival. Nose to Tail stars Aaron Abrams (HANNIBAL, BLINDSPOT) as a talented but abrasive chef struggling mightily with his personal demons and the relentless pressures of running a high-end restaurant. Over the course of one increasingly frantic day and night, he faces a rash of private trials and professional tribulations in a desperate bid t...
George Hammer
Producer George Hammer produced 'Code & Response' (2019), a documentary about one of the worst years on record for natural disasters-taxing governments, straining relief organizations and overwhelming communities as they attempt to rebuild. In the wake of these global catastrophes, a new type of responder emerges: the code. The film recently premiered at the 9th annual Napa Valley Film Festival.
George is Chief Cont...
A veteran in the film industry, Bobby Rock currently heads acquisitions at Lightning Entertainment Group. Previously he was Senior VP of Acquisitions at Eric Doctorow’s Random Media. Prior to that Rock was Head of Acquisitions at Echo Bridge Entertainment for six years (2008-2014). For the previous eight years (1999-2007) Rock was at Francis Coppola’s American Zoetrope as Senior V.P. of Production and Development, Rock has guided PUMPKIN, JEEPERS CREEPERS II...
Producers Branko Lustig (left) and Kayvan Mashayekh (right)
Producers Kayvan Mashayekh (left) and Branko Lustig (right)
On November 14th, 2019, Hollywood lost eminent and legendary producer Branko Lustig at the age of 87 who passed away in his Zagreb home. Before his role as Co-Chair of the International Committee of the Producers Guild of America, PGA Producer Kayvan Mashayekh worked as an apprentice and mentee ...
Jim Jermanok is an award-winning writer, director, producer author and speaker based in NY. He is currently directing and producing a feature documentary about the life and art of Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau featuring interviews by Chris Rock, Diane Ladd, Jon Voight, Woody Allen and Ellen Burstyn. Mr. Jermanok wrote and produced the highly acclaimed romantic comedy, “Passionada,” which was released by Columbia Tri Star in over 150 countries. His film “Em” won the ...
Brian A. Metcalf is an Asian-American writer, director, producer and actor and is a member of the Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Producers Guild and Visual Effects Society. He previously worked on games, DVDs, web, EPKs, music videos, film and documentaries for the studios. He is currently working on a number of film and television projects. Brian lives in Los Angeles.
I interviewed Brian dur...
Award-winning Italian documentary director Alessandro Soetje’s film 'Tomorrow and the Butterfly' (2019) is Alessandro's latest work; others of which include, 'Matera. Mother of Stone' (2019), 'Valtellina, the Roots of Love' (2017) and 'Old Wild Lorenz' (2015). 'Tomorrow and the Butterfly' (2019) was filmed in six vignettes that tells stories of sustainability, beauty, tolerance and diversity around the world that converge with Davide...
'BIOGRAPHY: I WANT MY MTV' (2019) is the story of the birth, life and death of MTV music television, which came into being in 1981, and how it revolutionized entertainment as we know it until its inevitable demise via the digital revolution. With dozens of riveting interviews with the founders of MTV, including some 80’s talent whose careers were greatly impacted by MTV (i.e. Tori Amos, Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, Annie Lenox, Doctor Dre, and many more), the film is co-directed by d...
Director Sean Cisterna
Sean Cisterna is an accomplished, multi award-winning film director whose works are frequently screened at recognized international festivals. His first theatrical feature, Moon Point (2011), was acquired by The Movie Network and broadcast nationally in 2012. His feature length documentary 30 Ghosts (2013) was developed out of the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival's Doc Ignite program and now resides with the National Film Board of Canada. Ful...
“Dear Zoe” also Stars Theo Rossi, Jessica Capshaw, Justin Bartha, Vivien Blair, and Newcomer Kweku Collins
“Dear Zoe” is a new independent feature film adapted from the award-winning novel by Pittsburgh author Philip Beard. The adapted screenplay was written by Pittsburgh natives Marc Lhormer and Melissa Martin, and directed by Gren Wells (The Road Within).
“Dear Zoe” stars Sadie Sink as Tess (Stranger Things). ...
Raised in New York City, Todd Harris earned his BA and MBA from Stanford University and currently lives in Los Angeles. He began his producing career while in college with a production of ‘Hair’. His first job out of college, he managed theater company TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. He started producing fulltime after achieving his MBA from Stanford when he moved to Los Angeles. Mr. Harris’s films include such reputable titles ‘Bottle Shock’ (2008) starring Alan Rickm...
Robert Solomon is an award-winning actor and pianist from Atlanta, GA. He started acting in high school theater before attending the Georgia Institute of Technology to study applied mathematics. In 2017, he was a member of the Shakespeare Academy @Stratford ensemble were he trained and performed under the tutelage of Brian McManamon. Later that year, he temporarily halted his studies to fly to Los Angeles where he acted the eponymous role in the short film, Duke. For this leading rol...
During November 6-11 the Program provides total immersion into the audiovisual industry in Los Angeles through an exclusive agenda of meetings, panels and visits LATC coordinates annually a group of filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, attorneys and government...
EL 8º FESTIVAL DE CINE DOMINICANO EN NUEVA YORK ANUNCIA LAS PELÍCULAS GANADORAS EN LA CEREMONIA DE NOCHE DE CLAUSURA
MEJOR PELÍCULA: LO QUE SIENTO POR TI BY RAUL CAMILO
MEJOR DOCUMENTAL: SOLANO (PATRICIA SOLANO)
MEJOR DIRECTOR: FELIX GERMAN (LA ISLA ROTA)
PREMIO DEL PÚBLICO: DOS MEJOR QUE UNA (JOSE PINKY PINTOR)
MEJOR ACTOR: FRANK PEROZO (LA ISLA ROTA)
MEJOR ACTRIZ: YORDANKA ARIOSA (LO QUE SIENTO POR TI)
MEJOR CORTOMETRAJE DOMINICANOS EN LA DIÁSP...
BEST FEATURE: LO QUE SIENTO POR TI BY RAUL CAMILO
BEST DOCUMENTARY: SOLANO (PATRICIA SOLANO)
BEST DIRECTOR: FELIX GERMAN (LA ISLA R...
Goran Kostic
Accomplished and prolific actor/producer Goran Kostic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. His starring role in Angelina Jolie's directorial debut 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' (2011) catapulted him to international recognition. Having appeared in next to sixty film and TV performances, he has worked on such prominent titles as 'Children of Men' (2006), 'Hannibal Rising' (2007), 'Taken' (2008), 'The Last Days on ...
CFO & COO of Arclight Films, Brian Beckmann, is a prolific producer in his own right, whose recent titles include: 'Dog Eat Dog' (2016), 'First Reformed' (2017), 'Guardians of the Tomb' (2018) and 'Triple Threat' (2019). With a background in rocket science, he was one of the men to put Pathfinder on Mars and has been headhunted by the likes of Elon Musk. But aerospace engineering aside, his passion is film. At Arclight Films ('Crash' 2004, 'Bobby...
Dimitris Anagnostou (left) and Nassos Vakalis (right)
Animator/Director/Producer Nassos Vakalis, known for his work in the Animation Department of over 37 films including 'Thumbelina' (1994), 'Quest for Camelot' (1998), 'Spirit' (2002), 'Bee Movie' (2007), 'Puss in Boots'' (2011), 'Turbo' (2013), 'Smallfoot' (2018) and Producer Dimitris Anagnostou run their Declare Productions company out of Los Angeles and have recent...
EIZA GONZÁLEZ JOINS ROSAMUND PIKE AND PETER DINKLAGE IN
“I CARE A LOT”
FROM BLACK BEAR PICTURES
Barcelona, SPAIN — Eiza González (Baby Driver, Alita:Battle Angel) is set to join Academy Award-nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, A Private War) and Golden Globe-winner Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) in Black Bear Pictures’ I Care a Lot, it was announced today during the STXinternational presentation out of CineEurope.
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Director Noah Wagner
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts graduate NOAH WAGNER is an award-winning director, writer and filmmaker who has appeared on HBO, NBC, BBC, VIMEO STAFF PICKS and THE NEW YORKER. His films have screened at festivals worldwide, including the Oscar-Qualifying Cleveland Int’l FF, Nantucket FF, and Sonoma Int’l FF, where his latest short – AI thriller, 'Watch Room' (2019) - won the Jury Award for Best Dramatic Short.
Starring Mamoudou Athie (...
Irish native Kevin Jackson is a prolific TV series and film producer at Big Fish Films in Belfast and former Assistant Head of Drama at BBC. He is known for such films as award winning 'Behold the Lamb' (2011), 'The Truth Commissioner' (2016), 'Zoo' (2017), 'Ups and Downs' (2019) and many more. His upcoming slate includes a number of exciting projects including 'Reawakening' currently in pre-production.
Kevin frequents international fil...
Udayyan Raathore is an actor, producer and director whose past works include 'Everybody Gets Screwed Here' (2015) and 'Dangal' (2016). Married to fellow producer Divya Baghela Rathore, they worked together on Udayyan's directorial debut 'Twosome' (2019), starring Preet Kunwar Choudhry and Rishabhraj Mehrota. The film is about two complete strangers who get stuck with each other for an entire night, after which their life tirns into a game which then becomes the...
Actor, writer, producer Tom Malloy's production company, Trick Candle Productions, include films he starred in such as psychological thriller 'The Alphabet Killer' (2008) directed by Rob Schmidt (Wrong Turn, Crime & Punishment in Suburbia); 'Love N' Dancing' (2009) by Rob Iscove (She's All That); 'Ashley' (2013) by Dean Ronalds; 'Hero of the Underworld' (2016) by John Vincent; and a thriller by Mary Lambert called 'The Attic' (2007), star...
Brian A. Metcalf (WGA, PGA, DGA, VES, ASCAP) is an Asian-American writer, director, producer and actor. His most recent film, Adverse, is a drama/thriller that he produced, directed, wrote and acted in and stars a large ensemble cast with Academy Award® Nominee Mickey Rourke, Academy Award® Nominee Sean Astin, Golden Globe® Nominee Lou Diamond Phillips, Golden Globe® Nominee Penelope Ann Miller, Matt Ryan, Jake T. Austin, Andrew Keegan, Luke Edwards, Shelley Regner, Thoma...
UK native actor/producer Nik Goldman was educated at Salford University and at the Northern Film School. he has been the recipient of numerous awards for his scholastic work. In 2004, Nik produced and acted in the well known short film ‘Briefing’, which was picked up by North America's Big Film Shorts distributor. The film has since been shown on us Comcast cable tv, HBO Latin America and Canadian television. Nik acted in another short 'The Parting' (20...
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