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Cam (film)
''Cam'' is a 2018 American horror film directed by Daniel Goldhaber and written by Isa Mazzei from a story by Goldhaber, Mazzei and Isabelle Link-Levy. The story is partially drawn from writer Mazzei's own experience working as a Webcam model, camgirl. The film is the first feature film for both Goldhaber and Mazzei. It stars Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters, Devin Druid and Michael Dempsey. It is a co-production between Divide/Conquer, Blumhouse Productions and Gunpowder & Sky. The film premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 18, 2018, and was released on November 16, 2018, by Netflix. It received a largely positive reception from critics, who praised the atmosphere, direction, and Brewer's performance. Plot Alice Ackerman works as a camgirl on a website called FreeGirlsLive (FGL) under the name "Lola_Lola". Obsessed with her rank on the site, she is trying to break into the Top 50 most popular content providers and hoping to become Number 1 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Goldhaber
Daniel Goldhaber is an American Film director, director, screenwriter, and Film producer, producer. In 2018, he directed ''Cam (film), Cam'', a psychological horror film set in the world of webcam pornography. In 2022, he co-wrote, directed, and produced the thriller film ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline (film), How to Blow Up a Pipeline'', based on the How to Blow Up a Pipeline, book of the same name by Andreas Malm. Career Goldhaber grew up in a Jewish family and attended Harvard University where he completed the Visual and Environmental Studies film program. While an undergraduate, he wrote, produced, and directed the 2013 short film ''Bad Kid'', which was selected as a short film of the month by Cinephilia and Beyond. He also worked as an assistant editor on ''Chasing Ice'', the Academy Award-nominated documentary about the Extreme Ice Survey. Goldhaber's first feature was the 2018 horror film ''Cam (film), Cam'', a Netflix original movie produced by Blumhouse Productions, starr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Bear
A teddy bear, or simply a teddy, is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear. The teddy bear was named by Morris Michtom after the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt; it was developed apparently simultaneously in the first decade of the 20th century by two toymakers: Richard Steiff in Germany and Michtom in the United States. It became a popular children's toy, and it has been celebrated in story, song, and film. Since the creation of the first teddy bears (which sought to imitate the form of real bear Cub (bear), cubs), "teddies" have greatly varied in form, style, color, and material. They have become collectable, collectors' items, with older and rarer teddies appearing at public auctions. Teddy bears are among the most popular gifts for children, and they are often given to adults to signify affection, congratulations, or sympathy. History The name ''teddy'' ''bear'' comes from Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, who was often ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Disgusting
Bloody Disgusting is an American independent multi-media company, which began as a horror genre-focused news website specializing in information services that covered various horror media. The company expanded into other media including podcast networking, entertainment, and streaming media. History Bloody Disgusting was founded in 2001 by Brad Miska (under the pseudonym "Mr. Disgusting") and Tom Owen. In 2025 Brad Miska left the company, and it is currently run by Tom Owen along with Managing Directors John Squires and Meagan Navarro. By 2007, the site had 1.5 million unique visitors and 20 million page views each month. In September 2007 a minority stake was purchased by The Collective, a Beverly Hills–based management company. In 2011 Bloody Disgusting began distributing and producing films that have gone on to win awards and spawned the successful ''V/H/S'' franchise. In 2011, Bloody Disgusting partnered with The Collective and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. to cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instagram
Instagram is an American photo sharing, photo and Short-form content, short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with Social media camera filter, filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via Geotagging, geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, view trending content, Like button, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal news feed, feed. A Meta-operated image-centric social media platform, it is available on iOS, Android (operating system), Android, Windows 10, and the web. Users can take photos and edit them using built-in filters and other tools, then share them on other social media platforms like Facebook. It supports 32 languages including English language, English, Hindi language, Hindi, Spanish language, Spanish, French language, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Photography
Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as the actors, director, cinematographer(s) or sound engineer(s) and their respective assistants ( assistant director, camera assistant, boom operator), the unit production manager plays a decisive role in principal photography. They are responsible for the daily implementation of the shoot, managing the daily call sheet, the location barriers, transportation, and catering. Additional typical roles during filming include the script supervisor to record changes to the script and the still photographer to produce images for advertising and documentation. Several reports are prepared each day to track the progress of a film production, including the daily production report, the daily progress report, and the sound report. Process Prepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice (magazine)
''Vice'' (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics. It was founded in 1994 in Montreal as an alternative punk magazine, and its founders later launched the youth media company Vice Media, which consists of divisions including the printed magazine as well as a website, broadcast news unit, a film production company, a record label, and a publishing imprint. As of February 2015, the magazine's editor-in-chief is Ellis Jones. On 15 May 2023, Vice Media formally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as part of a possible sale to a consortium of lenders including Fortress Investment Group, which will, alongside Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital, invest $225 million as a credit bid for nearly all of its assets. In February 2024, CEO Bruce Dixon announced additional layoffs and that the website Vice.com will no longer publish content. The print magazine returned in September 2024. History The precursor to ''Vice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longmont Potion Castle
Longmont Potion Castle (born 1972) is the stage name of a musician and surrealist prank caller from Denver, Colorado who has been active since 1986. The name is also used for most of his prank call albums, and for the project in general. Details about his personal life are scarce, and his real name is kept a secret. Over the years, his mostly self-published albums have gained a cult following, especially among musicians.''Noisecreep'' article:Dysrhythmia's Touring Essentials: Longmont Potion Castle, Paul Stanley" Biography Longmont Potion Castle has maintained his anonymity throughout his career, though his real name is known to some who have interviewed him. In several calls, recipients have recognized him as Longmont Potion Castle, but not by his real identity. Longmont Potion Castle started recording "experimental, collage, prank call albums" while he attended Columbine High School. The '' LA Record'' describes Longmont Potion Castle's albums as unlike typical prank call alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Parker Kennedy
Jessica Parker Kennedy (born October 3, 1984) is a Canadian actress known as Melissa Glaser in '' The Secret Circle'', Max on '' Black Sails'' and Nora West-Allen / XS in ''The Flash.'' She also had guest roles on ''Smallville'', '' Undercovers'', '' Kaya'' and ''Colony''. Early life Kennedy was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the child of an Afro-Canadian father and a Jewish mother. Growing up, Kennedy says there were very few people of colour around, and she was friends with the sole black girl at her school. She had gravitated to friendships with other black people later as a means of finding community. Kennedy was raised Jewish. Career Kennedy portrayed supervillain Plastique in the television series ''Smallville'', the role of Tami in the 2008 comedy film ''Another Cinderella Story'' and the recurring character of Natalee on the 2007 television series '' Kaya'' on MTV. Kennedy was originally cast in the J. J. Abrams-produced 2010 spy drama series '' Undercovers'' as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Robinson (American Actress)
Samantha Robinson (born October 19, 1991) is a British-American actress, best known for her roles in '' The Love Witch'' and ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.'' Personal life Robinson was born on October 19, 1991, in New York City to a Panamanian mother and an English father. When Robinson was a few years old, her family moved to London where she attended Queen's Gate School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. When she was 14, Robinson and her mother relocated to Miami, Florida, where she attended the New World School of the Arts. In 2014, Robinson graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a concentration in acting. Her mother passed of ovarian cancer in 2019. Career As a child, Robinson performed in a West End production of ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''. Robinson's early roles included the independent films ''Serenade of Sonnets'', ''Dreamgirl'', and ''Labyrinths'', and the Lifetime TV movie ''Sugar Daddies''. Her breakt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Development
Web development is the work involved in developing a website for the Internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network). Web development can range from developing a simple single static page of plain text to complex web applications, electronic businesses, and social network services. A more comprehensive list of tasks to which Web development commonly refers, may include Web engineering, Web design, Web content development, client liaison, client-side/ server-side scripting, Web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development. Among Web professionals, "Web development" usually refers to the main non-design aspects of building Web sites: writing markup and coding. Web development may use content management systems (CMS) to make content changes easier and available with basic technical skills. For larger organizations and businesses, Web development teams can consist of hundreds of people (Web developers) and follow standard methods like Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Message
In computer networking, a private message, personal message, or direct message (abbreviated as PM or DM) refers to a private communication, often text-based, sent or received by a user of a private communication channel on any given platform. Unlike public posts, PMs are only viewable by the participants. Long a function present on IRCs and Internet forums, private channels for PMs have also been prevalent features on instant messaging (IM) and on social media networks. It may be either synchronous (e.g. on an IM) or asynchronous (e.g. on an Internet forum). The term ''private message'' (PM) originated as a feature on Facebook Messenger, while the term ''direct message'' (DM) originated as a feature on Twitter. Due to the popularity of the latter service, ''DM'' has since been appropriated by other platforms, such as Instagram, and is often genericized in popular usage. Overview There are two main types of private messages: * One type includes those found on IRCs and Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Practical Effect
In filmmaking a practical effect is a special effect produced physically, without computer-generated imagery or other post-production techniques. In some contexts, "special effect" is used as a synonym of "practical effect", in contrast to "visual effects" which are created in post-production through photographic manipulation or computer generation. Practical effects often use principles from magic tricks, exploiting the camera's single viewpoint to create convincing illusions that may work only from certain angles, or using specially created props designed to achieve the desired effect. These effects require an interdisciplinary skill set, combining artistic craftsmanship with technical expertise in mechanics and engineering to achieve the desired result. Many of the staples of action movies are practical effects. Gunfire, bullet wounds, rain, wind, fire, and explosions can all be produced on a movie set by someone skilled in practical effects. Non-human characters and cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
