Todd Rohal
Todd Rohal is an American independent filmmaker. Career Rohal attended filmmaking classes at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Between 1997 and 2001 he directed four short films: ''Single Spaced'' (1997), ''Slug 660'' (1998), ''Knuckleface Jones'' (1999), and ''Hillbilly Robot'' (2001). ''Single Spaced'' and ''Knuckleface Jones'' both feature actress Piper Perabo, a college friend of Rohal. His feature films include 2006's ''The Guatemalan Handshake'', 2011's '' The Catechism Cataclysm'', and 2014's ''ABCs of Death 2''. He won the Jury Special Award for Best Film for ''The Guatemalan Handshake'' at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2006. Rohal received the Special Jury Award for Unique Vision at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival for his short film '' Rat Pack Rat''. ''M.O.P.Z.'' was broadcast by Adult Swim on April 4, 2016. ''The Suplex Duplex Complex'' was awarded Best Midnight Short at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Film Director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role in choosing the Casting (performing arts), cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking in cooperation with the Film producer, producer. 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, Film producer, producers, Film editing, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended film school. Directors use different approaches. Some Outline (list), outline a general plotline and let the actors impro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ABCs Of Death 2
''ABCs of Death 2'' is a 2014 American comedy horror anthology film produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League. It contains 26 different shorts, each by different directors spanning various countries. It is a sequel to '' The ABCs of Death'' (2012), and second installment in the ''ABCs of Death'' film series. Directors featured include Jim Hosking, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, the Jen and Sylvia Soska, Soska sisters, Julian Barratt, Rodney Ascher, Kristina Buožytė, Larry Fessenden, Navot Papushado, Aharon Keshales, Bill Plympton, and Vincenzo Natali. The film received a much more positive response than its predecessor. A second sequel titled ''ABCs of Death 3: Teach Harder'' was announced to be in development during the post-credits title card. However, due to illegal pirating of the second film, the status of the project has been left in development hell. Despite this, producers released what they categorized as a spin-off, titled '' ABC's of Death 2½'' in 2016. Plot ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Film Directors From Ohio
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hannah Takes The Stairs
''Hannah Takes the Stairs'' is a 2007 American independent mumblecore film by Joe Swanberg. It has been described "as the defining movie of the low-budget, dialogue-driven 'mumblecore' movement." Plot Hannah is a recent college graduate living in Chicago who works as an intern at a production office during the summer. She finds herself torn between three different men: her boyfriend Mike, and Matt and Paul, two screenwriters she works with. While coasting from relationship to relationship, Hannah attempts to find a direction for her life. Cast * Greta Gerwig as Hannah * Kent Osborne as Matt * Andrew Bujalski as Paul * Ry Russo-Young as Rocco * Mark Duplass as Mike Production The film’s dialogue is largely improvisational. Said Swanberg, "We had the concept of the three guys annah has relationships withfrom the very beginning, and the general flow of the movie, so that structure helped. One of the other things that helped us was we started thinking of the movie in a kind of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell
''Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell'' is an American sitcom on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's late night programming block. The series made its official debut on April 18, 2013, on Adult Swim. The show is a live-action workplace comedy about Gary, an associate demon, as he attempts to capture souls on Earth to climb the corporate ladder of the underworld. Gary hopes to advance in Hell, but he may be too stupid, lazy, and kind-hearted to realize his dreams of promotion. The show was renewed for a fourth season, which began production on June 5, 2017. The fourth season premiered on May 3, 2019. On July 13, 2020, co-creator Dave Willis announced that a one-off extended finale special was in the works, with the possibility of internet-exclusive shorts in the future. The extended finale was eventually scrapped, but the internet-exclusive shorts, known as ''Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell: The Cartoon'' (originally announced as ''Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell: The Animated Series ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nature Calls
''Nature Calls'' is a 2012 American comedy film, released on November 9, 2012 and the DVD version on January 22, 2013. It stars Patton Oswalt, Johnny Knoxville, Rob Riggle, and Patrice O'Neal and features Maura Tierney. The film is the final on-screen performance of Patrice O'Neal, who died in 2011 from complications of a massive stroke. Plot A group of children were gathered together and taken to forests for Boy Scouting in the U.S. Their parents were concerned initially but became grateful. Cast *Patton Oswalt as Randy Stevens *Johnny Knoxville as Kirk Stevens *Rob Riggle as Gentry *Maura Tierney as Janine *Patrice O'Neal as Mr. Caldwell *Darrell Hammond as Ranger Deakins * Peter McRobbie as Priest *Eddie Rouse Eddie Rouse (July 2, 1954 – December 7, 2014) was an American character actor whose feature film credits included ''American Gangster (film), American Gangster'', ''The Number 23'', and ''Pineapple Express (film), Pineapple Express''. Rouse sta ... as Little Eddie * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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SXSW Film Festival
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has continued growing in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin; in both years there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW EDU and the SXSW Sydney festival (from 2023, in Sydney, Australia) and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural SXSW London will also take place. The company has previously run or co-run the events North by Northwest (1995–200 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adult Swim
Adult Swim (stylized as [adult swim] and [as]) is an American adult-oriented television programming block that airs on Cartoon Network which broadcasts during the evening, prime time, and Late-night television, late-night Dayparting, dayparts. The channel features stylistically varied Adult animation, animated and live-action series targeting an adult audience. The block's content includes List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim, original programming, which are particularly comedies and action series, broadcast syndication, syndicated series, and short films with generally minimal or no editing for content. Adult Swim is programmed by Williams Street, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television Studios that also produces much of the block's original programming. Launched on September 2, 2001, Adult Swim has frequently aired animated sitcoms, adult animation features, parody, satire, Mockumentary, mockumentaries, sketch comedy, and Television pilot, pilots, with many of its programs ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rat Pack Rat
''Rat Pack Rat'' is a 2014 drama short film, written and directed by Todd Rohal. The film had its premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. It won the ''Jury Award'' at the festival. The film later screened at ''2014 SXSW Film Festival'' on March 8, 2014. It also marks the final motion picture performance of Eddie Rouse, who died on December 7, 2014, of liver failure. Plot A Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator, was hired by a Rat Pack fan's mother to perform on his birthday. Cast * Steve Little as Rat Pack fan *Eddie Rouse Eddie Rouse (July 2, 1954 – December 7, 2014) was an American character actor whose feature film credits included ''American Gangster (film), American Gangster'', ''The Number 23'', and ''Pineapple Express (film), Pineapple Express''. Rouse sta ... as Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator * Margie Beegle as mother Reception ''Rat Pack Rat'' received mostly positive reviews from critics. Kat Smith of ''The Hollywood News'' gave the film four out of five ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2014 Sundance Film Festival
The 2014 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 16, 2014 until January 26, 2014 in Park City, Utah, United States, with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Utah, Ogden, and Sundance Resort in Utah. The festival opened with ''Whiplash (2014 film), Whiplash'' directed by Damien Chazelle and closed with musical drama ''Rudderless'' directed by William H. Macy. The festival honored late Roger Ebert and premiered ''Life Itself (2014 documentary film), Life Itself'' by Steve James (producer), Steve James, a biographical documentary film based on Ebert's 2011 memoir titled as ''Life Itself: A Memoir'' on 19 January 2014. The festival introduced a new film category titled ''Sundance Kids'', which will help to introduce independent films to a younger generation of audiences. It is also a first category at the festival dedicated to children's films. The festival also hosted several events and discussion panels around themes of success through failure titled ''F ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Slamdance Film Festival
The Slamdance Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on emerging artists. The annual week-long festival is held in Los Angeles in late February and is the main event organized by the year-round Slamdance organization. The organization also hosts a screenplay competition, workshops, screenings throughout the year, and events with an emphasis on independent films with budgets under $1 million. History The festival was founded in 1995 by Dan Mirvish, Jon Fitzgerald, Shane Kuhn, and Peter Baxter in addition to Paul Rachman, after they had been unsuccessful in submitting films to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Baxter has been in charge of Slamdance since 1997. Screenplay competition In addition to the festival, Slamdance's screenplay competition has discovered a number of talented screenwriters including Joshua Marston ('' Maria Full of Grace'') as well as Steven Fechter and Nicole Kassell (co-writers of '' The Woodsman''). In 2008, Slamdance entered i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |