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Spiral (Haven)
The first season of the American television series ''Haven'' premiered on July 9, 2010, and concluded on October 8, 2010, on Syfy. The show aired on Fridays at 10:00 pm ET. The season consisted of 13 episodes. The show was filmed in Nova Scotia, Canada and starred Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Nicholas Campbell and Eric Balfour. Storylines Audrey Parker In the beginning of season one, Audrey is dispatched to Haven, Maine, USA, to investigate the death of an escaped federal prisoner named Jonas Lester, a former Haven resident. On her first day in town, she nearly runs her Ford Taurus off a cliff, but is rescued by Detective Nathan Wuornos, who ends up assisting in her investigation. She meets Havenites Conrad Brauer and Duke Crocker, as well as journalists Vince and Dave Teagues, before discovering that Lester was thrown to his death by a local woman named Marion Caldwell. Incredibly, Audrey finds that Marion killed the man using her paranormal abilities. The Teagues show Audrey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Rose (actress)
Emily Rose (born February 2, 1981) is an American actress. She is best known for her role in the critically acclaimed ''Uncharted'' video game series as Elena Fisher and for her lead role as Audrey Parker in the Syfy series ''Haven'' (2010–2015). Early life Born in Renton, Washington, Rose graduated from Kent View Christian High School in 1999 and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from UCLA in 2006. She also graduated from Vanguard University of Southern California with a degree in Theater Arts. She is the oldest of three children (she has a younger sister and brother). Career Rose appeared in the unaired fourth episode of the American television show ''Smith'', and starred as Cass in the HBO drama ''John from Cincinnati''. She played Lena Branigan on '' Brothers & Sisters''. She portrayed Trish Merrick, an employee of Jennings and Rall, on the CBS drama ''Jericho''. Rose performed voice acting and motion capture for the 2007 PlayStation 3 game '' Uncharted: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Southam
Tim Southam (born October 1, 1961) is a Canadian television and film director. Career Tim Southam's directing work includes Canadian films and international series. His 1994 dance film ''Satie and Suzanne'', which he also wrote, evokes Erik Satie's relationship with the painter Suzanne Valadon. The programme was nominated for a Grammy for best long-form video in 1997. His 1997 feature documentary, '' Drowning in Dreams'', which tracks several men's obsession with a shipwreck lying at the bottom of Lake Superior, was screened at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for a Genie Award. In 1998 Southam directed the CBC/ SRC film ''L'histoire de l'oie'', known in English as ''The Tale of Teeka'', which was adapted by Michel Marc Bouchard from his celebrated play of the same name, winning among other awards several Prix Gémeaux and The Banff Rockie. In 2002 he directed the film '' The Bay of Love and Sorrows'' based on a 1998 novel by David Adams Richards, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rohl
Michael Rohl is a Canadian TV director and producer. He has worked on ''Shadowhunters'', ''Smallville'', ''Supernatural'', '' Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'', '' Andromeda'', ''Kyle XY'', and ''Reaper'' as well as many other programs. He and ex-wife, writer Jan Derbyshire, have a daughter, actress Kacey Rohl. Partial filmography * '' The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star'' (2021) * '' The Princess Switch: Switched Again'' (2020) * '' When Hope Calls'' (2019) * '' The Princess Switch'' (2018) * ''Chesapeake Shores'' (2017–2018) * ''Shadowhunters'' (TV series) (2017; 2019) * ''When Calls the Heart'' (2015–2021; 2024) * '' Signed, Sealed, Delivered'' (2014) * ''Helix'' (TV series) (2013) * '' Primeval: New World'' (TV series) (2012) * '' Continuum'' (2012) * '' Haven'' (TV series) (2010) * '' Defying Gravity'' (2009) * ''Impact'' TV miniseries (2009) * '' Angela's Eyes'' (TV series) (2007) * ''Reaper'' (2007) * ''Supernatural'' (2006-2012) * ''Smallville'' (2006†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ardai
Charles Ardai is an American businessman, and writer of crime fiction and mysteries. He is co-founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels. He was also an early employee of D. E. Shaw & Co. and a managing director of the firm. He is the former chairman of Schrödinger, Inc. Early life A New York native and the son of two Holocaust survivors, Ardai told NPR in a May 2008 interview that the stories his parents told him as a child "were the most grim and frightening that you can imagine" and gave him the impression "there was a darker circle around a very small bit of light," something that enabled him to relate to his own characters' sufferings. While in high school, Ardai enjoyed reading pulp magazine, pulp fiction and worked as an intern at ''Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine''. After graduating from Hunter College High School in 1987, he attended Columbia University, where he graduated ''summa cum laude'' in 1991. Career Right out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Rose (director)
Lee Rose is an American director, producer and writer of film and television. Rose began her professional career in 1993 producing and writing the television film ''It's Nothing Personal''. Throughout the 1990s, she also worked on the films ''Deconstructing Sarah'', '' A Mother's Prayer'', ''An Unexpected Family'', and ''An Unexpected Life''. She made her directorial debut with the 1998 film, ''The Color of Courage'', starring Linda Hamilton and Lynn Whitfield. Her TV film credits continued into the 2000s, including '' The Truth About Jane'', '' A Girl Thing'', ''What Girls Learn'', '' An Unexpected Love'', '' Jack'', and '' A Taste of Romance''. In 2004, Rose began directing episodic television. Her credits include ''Soul Food'', ''Weeds'', '' Related'', '' Cashmere Mafia'', '' Lincoln Heights'', '' Lost Girl'', ''Greek'', '' XIII: The Series'', '' The Glades'', ''In Plain Sight'', '' Haven'', '' Under the Dome'', and ''True Blood''. Current TV series that she is involved wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Society
A secret society is an organization about which the activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla warfare insurgencies, that hide their activities and memberships but maintain a public presence. Secret societies may be community-based or associated with colleges and universities. These societies exist in countries around the world. Definitions The exact qualifications for labeling a group a secret society are disputed, but definitions generally rely on the degree to which the organization insists on secrecy and might involve the retention and transmission of secret knowledge, the denial of membership or knowledge of the group, the creation of personal bonds between members of the organization, and the use of secret rites or rituals. Anthropology, Anthropologically and historically, secret societies have been dee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Rosenthal
Richard L. Rosenthal Jr. (born June 15, 1949) is an American film instructor and director, known for directing '' Halloween II'', '' Bad Boys'', and '' Halloween: Resurrection''. Early life Rosenthal was born in New York City, the son of Hinda (née Gould) and entrepreneur Richard L. Rosenthal Sr. Career Rosenthal started his career by directing '' Halloween II'' and returned to the series 21 years later, helming '' Halloween: Resurrection''. In between he has directed films such as ''American Dreamer'' (1984), '' Russkies'' (1987), ''Distant Thunder'' (1988) and '' Just a Little Harmless Sex'' (1998). He also directed dozens of episodic television shows, and was co-executive producer of the landmark Warner Bros. TV series ''Life Goes On'' for ABC from 1989-1991, where he guest starred in two episodes as "Uncle Richard". Rosenthal, along with his wife Nancy Stephens, executive produced the film ''Invisible Beauty'' about model and activist Bethann Hardison, which premiere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shapeshifting
In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means. The idea of shapeshifting is found in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest existent literature and Epic poetry, epic poems such as the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' and the ''Iliad''. The concept remains a common literary device in modern fantasy, children's literature and popular culture. Examples of shapeshifters are vampires and werewolves. Folklore and mythology Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolf, werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchhadhari naag (shape-shifting cobra) of India, shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses and demons and demonesses such as the Norse mythology, Norse Loki or the Greek mythology, Greek Proteus. Shapeshifting to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jose Molina (writer)
Jose Molina, born in 1971 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a television producer and screenwriter. He wrote the episodes " Trash" and " Ariel" for the American TV show '' Firefly'', and multiple episodes for '' Dark Angel''. Education Molina attended Yale University ( Pierson College, class of 1993), where he successfully applied for a student internship with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences by submitting a spec script for '' Star Trek: The Next Generation''. Career Following ''Firefly'', Molina worked on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', earning the 2006 American Latino Media Arts Award for "Outstanding Script for a Television Drama or Comedy" for the episode "Alien". The ''Official Firefly Visual Companion'' #3, "Still Flying", released in May 2010, features a short story written by Molina. He wrote the episodes "Famous Last Words" and "Suicide Squeeze" for the television series ''Castle A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lieberman
Robert Lieberman (July 16, 1947 – July 1, 2023) was an American film and television director. Career Lieberman was the founder of the commercial production company Harmony Pictures and directed close to two thousand commercials. He received many Clio nominations and won 29. Lieberman in 1980 was the first winner of the DGA Award for Best Commercial Director. He was nominated another three times for the DGA Award and in 1996 won his second award. He also directed one film with Akshay Kumar called '' Speedy Singhs'' starring Camilla Belle and Vinay Virmani. Personal life Lieberman was married from June 27, 1990, to June 7, 2001, to actress Marilu Henner; the divorced couple had two children, Nicholas Morgan and Joseph Marlon. He also has two children, Erin and Lorne Lieberman, from his first marriage. Lieberman married former model Victoria Peters in 2010. Illness and death Robert Lieberman died after battling cancer in Los Angeles on July 1, 2023, at the age of 75. Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow People
A shadow person (also known as a shadow figure or black mass) is a popular subject in circles of the paranormal and supernatural detailing beings resembling animate human shadows, sometimes interpreted as the presence of a spirit. History and folklore A number of religions, legends, and belief systems describe supernatural entities such as shades of the underworld, and various shadowy humanoids have long been a staple of folklore and ghost stories, such as the Islamic Jinn and the Choctaw Nalusa Chito. The '' Coast to Coast AM'' late night radio talk show helped popularize modern beliefs in shadow people. The first time the topic of shadow people was discussed at length on the program was April 12, 2001, when host Art Bell interviewed a man pretending to be a Native American elder, Thunder Strikes, who is also known as Harley "SwiftDeer" Reagan. During the show, listeners were encouraged to submit drawings of shadow people that they had seen and a large number of these dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Girotti
Ken Girotti is a Canadian television director who was nominated for a 2006 Gemini Award in the category "Best Direction in a Dramatic Series" for the TV series '' ReGenesis''. Career He was director of the 2008 television film '' Mayerthorpe'',Ryan Cormier, "Mayerthorpe massacre comes to small screen". '' Saskatoon Star-Phoenix'', February 9, 2008. for which he won a Directors Guild of Canada award"Directors Guild honours Cronenberg". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', November 9, 2008. and was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the 23rd Gemini Awards in 2008.Alex Strachan, "Mayerthorpe gets seven Gemini nods; CTV's retelling of RCMP tragedy up for best TV movie". ''Edmonton Journal'', August 27, 2008. He directed episode 9 of the first season of ''Supernatural''. He directed episodes 3 and 4 of the second season of ''Vikings'' in 2014. He was a producer on the series ''Anne with an E''. For ''Pure'' he was a season second two di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
