Aaron Schimberg
Aaron Schimberg is an American filmmaker best known for the 2018 film '' Chained for Life'' and the 2024 film ''A Different Man''. Career Schimberg's debut feature, ''Go Down Death'', was the closing film of the 2013 Fantasia Film Festival. His next film, '' Chained for Life'', premiered at the 2018 BAMcinemaFest and was released theatrically by Kino Lorber the following year. ''A Different Man'', Schimberg's third feature starring Sebastian Stan and distributed by A24, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. He was named one of the top ten new directors to watch by ''Variety'' at that year's Palm Springs International Film Festival Palm Springs International Film Festival (sometimes stylized shortly as PSIFF) is a film festival held in Palm Springs, California. Originally promoted by Mayor Sonny Bono and then sponsored by Nortel,here for Table of Contents it started in 1989 .... Filmography Awards and nominations Notes References External links * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Champs-Élysées Film Festival
The Champs-Élysées Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Paris, France. The festival consists of French and American feature-length films and short films. There are competitive films that may be eligible for several awards, and a group of out-of-competition selections like retrospectives and avant-premieres. Two film industry-targeted events are hosted alongside the Festival: the US in Progress Paris program and the Paris Coproduction Village, the latter co-organized with Les Arcs European Film Festival. Around 25,000 spectators and professionals attend the festival each year, and 60,000 people attended the free-of-charge, digital 2020 screenings. Though the Champs-Élysées Film Festival is usually held annually in June, the 10th Champs-Élysées Film Festival was held from 14 to 21 September 2021. The latest Champs-Élysées Film Festival was held from 21 to 28 June, making it the 11th edition. History The Festival was created by French distributor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Film Directors From New York City
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensiti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kobi Libii
Kobi Libii is an American comedian and actor from Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was a cast member on ''the Opposition with Jordan Klepper'', a news satire television series that aired on Comedy Central. On the show, Libii was billed as a "citizen journalist". Other television series in which he has appeared include ''Doubt'', '' Transparent'', ''Girls'', and '' Madam Secretary''. He has also performed in several plays, including the documentary play ''Boiling Pot'', which he co-created with Evan Joiner. The play premiered at New York City's Cherry Lane Theatre in 2007. He later performed in an MCC Theater production of the Paul Downs Colaizzo play ''Really Really'' in 2013. Libii also made an appearance on ''Klepper'' as himself. Libii graduated from Fort Wayne's Snider High School in 2003. He went on to graduate from Yale University in 2007, where he studied theater and was a member of the improv troupe Just Add Water. He studied improvisation at the Second City in Chicago, Illinois ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anna Kendrick
Anna Cooke Kendrick (born August 9, 1985) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including a Satellite Award, five Teen Choice Awards, three MTV Movie Awards, and nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award; making her one of the youngest people to be nominated for the " Triple Crown of Acting" and the youngest person to do so without winning. Kendrick began her career performing in theater productions at a young age. Her first starring role was in the 1998 Broadway musical '' High Society'', for which she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She made her film debut in the musical comedy '' Camp'' (2003), and rose to prominence for her role in ''The Twilight Saga'' (2008–2012). She achieved further recognition for the comedy-drama film '' Up in the Air'' (2009), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for her starring role in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Titus Kaphar
Titus Kaphar is an American contemporary painter whose work reconfigures and regenerates art history to include the African-American subject. His paintings are held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, New Britain Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and University of Michigan Museum of Art. Background Titus Kaphar was born in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His first introduction to art was in a junior college art history course, and he taught himself to paint by visiting museums. He received his BFA from San José State University in 2001 and his MFA from Yale University. His work is often multidimensional and sculptural, with canvases slashed and dangling off the frame, or hanging over another painting. One such example is his portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted in the Neoclassical style, which he attached to the corner of a nude Sally Hemings' portrait frame. The juxtaposition of the fully ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cord Jefferson
Cord Jefferson is a television writer, journalist, and essayist who has worked on the TV series ''Watchmen'', ''Succession'', ''The Good Place'', and ''Master of None''. He is the recipient of an Emmy Award, NAACP Image Award, and two Writers Guild of America Awards. Early life Cord Jefferson was born in Tucson, Arizona to a white mother and black father. His father is an attorney. After his family lived outside the US for a few years until he was about 5 or 6 years old, he grew up in Tucson. His mother’s father was shocked by her choice to marry a black man and shut her and his grandson out of his life. His parents divorced when he was 14 years old, after he finished his first year of high school. He attended the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where he was one of a low number of biracial or black people. His father had attended law school there. After college he lived in Los Angeles and in Brooklyn, New York. His mother died in 2016, of cancer. When his father need ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sophie Dupuis
Sophie Dupuis is a Quebec film director and screenwriter, from Val-d'Or who studied at Concordia University and the Université du Québec à Montréal whose feature film debut '' Family First (Chien de garde)'' premiered in 2018 and was selected as Canada's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. The film was nominated for eight Prix Iris at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards, including a Best Director nomination for Dupuis. Prior to ''Family First'', Dupuis directed the short films ''J'viendrais t'chercher'', ''Si tu savais Rosalie'', ''Félix et Malou'', ''Faillir'' and ''L'hiver et la violence''. Her second feature film, ''Underground (Souterrain)'', was released in 2020. Her third, ''Solo Solo or SOLO may refer to: Arts and entertainment Comics * ''Solo'' (DC Comics), a DC comics series * Solo, a 1996 mini-series from Dark Horse Comics Characters * Han Solo, a ''Star Wars'' character * Jacen Solo, a Jedi in the non-canonical ''S ...'', is s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blitz Bazawule
Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to: Military uses *Blitzkrieg, blitz campaign, or blitz, a type of military campaign *The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War *, an Imperial German Navy light cruiser built in 1882 Computing *Blitz (software), a cloud-based load-and performance-testing service *Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language *Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing *BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College *Blitz Research, a New Zealand software company Film and television * ''Blitz'' (2011 film), a film starring Jason Statham *Blitz (upcoming film), an upcoming World War II-themed historical drama film *Blitz, a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from ''Road Rovers'' *''Blitz'' or ''Killing Cars'', a 1986 Michael Verhoeven film *Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon ''C.O.P.S.'' *The Blitz, in the "Blitzgiving" episode of ''How I Met Your Mother'' Games * ''Blitz'' (game), a c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Golden Bear
The Golden Bear (german: Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The bear is the heraldic animal of Berlin, featured on both the coat of arms and flag of Berlin. History The winners of the first Berlin International Film Festival in 1951 were determined by a West German panel, with five winners of the Golden Bear, divided by categories and genres. Between 1952 and 1955, the winners of the Golden Bear were determined by the audience members. In 1956, the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films formally accredited the festival, and since then, the Golden Bear has been awarded by an international jury. The award The statuette shows a bear standing on its hind legs and is based on the 1932 design by German sculptor Renée Sintenis of Berlin's heraldic mascot that later became the symbol of the festival. It has been manufactured since either the first or third edition by art foundr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Method Fest Independent Film Festival
The Method Fest Independent Film Festival is an independent film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending up .... The Method Fest is the ''Actor's Film Festival'', a festival of discovery, seeking breakout-acting performances of emerging stars and established actors in story-driven independent films. The 13th The Method Fest Independent Festival was held in Beverly Hills, California, in March 2019. The festival is also dedicated to support the work of those who produce, make and work in independent film and to provide educational opportunities in independent filmmaking. The upcoming 14th The Method Fest Independent Film Festival will be held in Beverly Hills at the Fine Arts Theatre from March 20-26, 2020. 1999 2000 2001 2002 2019 References External li ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |