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Hip Hop Film Festival
The Hip Hop Film Festival is the first film festival in the world to focus on producers, directors and writers from the global culture of Hip Hop. The Hip Hop Film Festival was founded in 2015 by CR Capers, the CEO & Founder of the Harlem Film House. The Hip Hop Film Festival has featured Master Cyphers by Academy Award-Winning Producer Bruce Cohen, Harlem Legend Dapper Dan, Actor and Entrepreneur Theo Rossi, Director Stefon Bristol Stefon Bristol is an American film director and screenwriter. He co-wrote and directed the Netflix time travel film, ''See You Yesterday'', in 2019. Bristol studied at New York University's Graduate Film program, under mentor Spike Lee, who help ... and REVOLT CEO Detavio Samuels among others. Awards 2019 Awards 2018 {, class="wikitable Sortable" , - ! Year ! Winner ! Award Category ! Work ! Ref , - , 2018 , Patrick House, et al , Best Feature Short , ''Blue Diamonds'' , , - , 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Cohen
Bruce L. Cohen (born September 23, 1961) is a film, television, and theater producer. Biography Cohen was born to a Jewish family and raised in Falls Church, Virginia.The Jewish Journal: "Bruce Cohen: A career full of ‘Silver Linings’" by Naomi Pfefferman February 19, 2013 In 1983, he graduated from with a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies. After school, he moved to Los Angeles where he accepted a clerical job as a |
Dapper Dan (designer)
Daniel Day (born August 8, 1944), known as Dapper Dan, is an African American fashion designer and haberdasher from Harlem, New York. His influential store, Dapper Dan's Boutique, operated from 1982 to 1992 and is most associated with introducing high fashion to the hip hop world, with his clients over the years including Eric B. & Rakim, Salt-N-Pepa, LL Cool J, and Jay-Z. In 2017, he launched a fashion line with Gucci, with which he opened a second store and atelier, Dapper Dan's of Harlem, in 2018. Dan is included in ''Time''s 100 Most Influential People of 2020. Early life Dan was born in Harlem, New York, in 1944, and he was born at home with his grandmother as a midwife. He grew up on 129th and Lexington Avenue with three brothers and three sisters. His father, Robert, was a civil servant and his mother, Lily, a homemaker. All nine of them lived in a three bedroom apartment. He recalls horses and buggies still on the streets in his early childhood, in the post-World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Rossi
John Theodore Rossi (born June 4, 1975) is an American actor and producer. He portrayed Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz on the FX series ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2008–2014) and Hernan "Shades" Alvarez in ''Luke Cage'' (2016–2018). His film roles include Tino Hull in ''Red Sands'' (2009), Todd in '' Bad Hurt'' (2015), Francisco "Ghost" Alvarez in '' Lowriders'' (2017), and Deuce in ''Vault'' (2019). Early life Rossi was born in Staten Island, New York City, New York. He is of Italian, Spanish, Syrian, and North African descent. Growing up, he loved to ride dirt bikes. He has openly admitted to dealing drugs for years before moving to California. He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York, where he appeared in several theatre productions. Career Rossi played Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz on the FX series ''Sons of Anarchy''. His production company, ''Dos Dudes Pictures'', produced its first feature film in 2014, '' Bad Hurt'', Rossi acting alongside Karen All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefon Bristol
Stefon Bristol is an American film director and screenwriter. He co-wrote and directed the Netflix time travel film, ''See You Yesterday'', in 2019. Bristol studied at New York University's Graduate Film program, under mentor Spike Lee, who helped produce his debut feature. Bristol also acted as an assistant to Lee, while Lee was filming ''BlacKkKlansman''. Bristol originally shot ''See You Yesterday'' as a short, for his thesis film, before expanding it into a feature film. It took five years to complete the film. Bristol received nominations for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay (with Fredica Bailey) at the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards. Bristol and Bailey won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay The Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Film Independent The Independent Spirit Awards (abbreviated Spirit Awards and originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards), fo ... a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceschi
Julio Francisco "Ceschi" Ramos (born July 24, 1981), better known as Ceschi Ramos, or simply as Ceschi (pronounced "chess-key"), is an American hip hop musician based in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a co-founder of Fake Four Inc. He won the Connecticut Music Awards for Best Hip Hop in 2014. Life and career Ceschi released his first solo album, ''Fake Flowers'', in 2004. ''They Hate Francisco False'' followed in 2006. In 2008, Ceschi and his brother David Ramos founded the record label Fake Four Inc. In 2010, Ceschi was arrested and pleaded guilty to a 100-pound marijuana shipment that he accepted at the home of his grandfather in New Haven. Ceschi released '' The One Man Band Broke Up'', a collaborative album with German producer DJ Scientist, in July 2010. It was described by Tiny Mix Tapes as "music for the saddest party in recorded human history." In 2014, Ceschi won the Connecticut Music Awards for Best Hip Hop. He released ''Broken Bone Ballads'', a collaborative album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |