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Bijan Daneshmand
Bijan Daneshmand (born 16 August 1958) is an Iranian born-English actor and artist based in London, England. He was born in Tehran, Iran, and was sent to England for his schooling at the age of 10. He was educated in England at Eastbourne College, Sussex, a graduate of King's College London, and trained for acting at the London Centre For Theatre Studies and Philippe Gaulier school, Paris. He has an MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts. Daneshmand's artworks have been exhibited in various shows in London, and he has appeared in a number of films and television productions. Film His film acting credits include: *2004: ''20 Fingers'' - The Husband, The Man *2005: ''Munich'' - Kamal Nasser *2006: ''A Snake's Tail'' - Bijan / Kami / Agha *2008: '' Body of Lies'' - Amman Clinic Doctor *2009: '' Women Without Men'' - Abbas *2010: ''Green Zone'' - Zubaidi's Aide *2012: ''From Tehran to London'' - Ashkan *2016: ''Under the Shadow'' - Director *2020: '' Pari'' - Director- Ahmadi *202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Page Eight
''Page Eight'' is a 2011 British political thriller, written and directed for the BBC by the British dramatist David Hare, his first film as director since the 1989 film ''Strapless''. The cast includes Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Tom Hughes, Ralph Fiennes, and Judy Davis. The film was followed by '' Turks & Caicos'' (2014) and ''Salting the Battlefield'' (2014), which were broadcast on BBC Two in March 2014. The three films are collectively known as ''The Worricker Trilogy''. Plot summary Johnny Worricker is a long-serving MI5 officer. His best friend and superior, director general Benedict Baron, summons Johnny to a meeting with MI5 agent Jill Tankard and Home Secretary Anthea Catcheside regarding a potentially explosive report. Worricker highlights a note at the foot of page eight alleging that Prime Minister Alec Beasley has knowledge of secret overseas prisons where American authorities have tortured terror suspects. If true, Beasley did not share any i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bare Bones International Film Festival
The Bare Bones International Film and Music Festival was founded in 1999 by the Darkwood Film Arts Institute (DFAI) in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States to showcase independent motion picture projects with budgets of less than 1 million dollars (hence "bare bones"). The festival runs for eleven days each year in late April at several venues in downtown Muskogee. '' MovieMaker Magazine'' called Bare Bones a "small-town festival that celebrates indie auteurs, directors, screenwriters, actors and cinematographers in a big way." In 2010, MovieMaker named Bare Bones to its list of 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee. Awards 2021 * BEST Foreign Language (Subtitled): '' The Vanishing Hitchhiker'' by Rosario Brucato * Best Domestic Violence Awareness: ''Honey Cycle'' by Yudelka Heyer * Best Drama: ''Bone Cage'' by Taylor Olson * Best of Fest Song Lyrics: "Special Someone" by Michael Lafata * Best Original Song Lyrics and Music: "Black Hurts" by Terry Blade * Shironb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of The Dragon
''House of the Dragon'' is an American Fantasy television, fantasy drama (film and television), drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. A prequel to ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2019), it is the second TV show in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' franchise. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik served as the showrunners for the first season. Based on Martin's 2018 novel ''Fire & Blood (novel), Fire & Blood'', the series is set about 100 years after the Westeros, Seven Kingdoms are united by the Targaryen Conquest, nearly 200 years before the events of ''Game of Thrones'', and 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen. Featuring an ensemble cast, the show portrays the events leading up to the beginning of the decline of House Targaryen, a devastating war of succession known as the "Dance of the Dragons". ''House of the Dragon'' received a straight-to-series order in October 2019, with casting beginning in July 2020 and principal photography starti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran (TV Series)
''Tehran'' () is an Israeli spy thriller television series created by Moshe Zonder for the Israeli public channel Kan 11. Written by Zonder and Omri Shenhar and directed by Daniel Syrkin, the series premiered in Israel on June 22, 2020 and September 25 internationally on Apple TV+. Featuring dialogue in Hebrew, Persian and English, the series follows an Iranian-Jewish Mossad agent on her first mission in Iran's capital, which is also the place of her birth. On January 26, 2021, it was announced that the series had been renewed by Apple TV+ for a second season. On June 22, 2021, it was announced that Glenn Close had joined the cast. The second season was released on May 6, 2022. On February 8, 2023, it was announced that the series had been renewed by Apple TV+ for a third season, with Hugh Laurie joining the cast. At the International Emmy Awards ceremony held in November 2021, ''Tehran'' received the award for best drama series, becoming the first ever Israeli series to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspicion (2022 TV Series)
''Suspicion'' is a British thriller television miniseries based on the Israeli series ''False Flag''. Set in London and New York City, the series premiered on Apple TV+ on 4 February 2022. It received generally mixed reviews from critics. Premise Five people – three men and two women – have their lives turned upside down after being identified by London police as suspects in the kidnapping and subsequent disappearance of American media mogul Katherine Newman's son Leonardo. Cast Main * Kunal Nayyar as Aadesh Chopra * Georgina Campbell as Natalie Thompson * Elyes Gabel as Sean Tilson * Elizabeth Henstridge as Tara McAllister * Angel Coulby as Vanessa Okoye * Tom Rhys Harries as Eddie Walker * Robert Glenister as Martin Copeland * Lydia West as Monique Thompson * Clare Perkins as Lydia Thompson * Gerran Howell as Leo Newman * Karl Johnson as Eric Cresswell * Jennifer Ehle as Amy * Noah Emmerich as Scott Anderson * Uma Thurman as Katherine Newman Supporting * Ross Mc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EastEnders
''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the East End of London, the programme follows the stories of local residents and their families as they go about their daily lives. Within eight months of the show's original launch, it had reached the number one spot in Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, BARB's television ratings and has consistently remained among the top-rated series in Britain. Four ''EastEnders'' episodes are listed in the all-time top 10 List of most watched television broadcasts in the United Kingdom#Most watched programmes, most-watched programmes in the UK, including the number one spot when over 30 million watched the 1986 Christmas Day episode. ''EastEnders'' has been EastEnders in popular culture, important in the history of British television drama, tackling many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traitors (TV Series)
''Traitors'' is a British television drama miniseries created by Bathsheba Doran and broadcast by Channel 4 and Netflix in 2019. Set in 1945 London after the end of World War Two, ''Traitors'' follows a young woman recruited by the American Office of Strategic Services to identify a Soviet spy in the Cabinet Office. Cast and characters * Emma Appleton as Feef Symonds, a young, naive and intelligent upper-class civil servant in the Cabinet Office, recruited as an agent by the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) *Luke Treadaway as Hugh Fenton, a Labour Party Member of Parliament for a constituency in Derbyshire, and Royal Tank Regiment veteran *Michael Stuhlbarg as Thomas Rowe, a senior American agent handler of the OSS *Keeley Hawes as Priscilla Garrick, a senior civil servant of the Cabinet Office * Brandon P. Bell as Jackson Cole, an American army driver and Rowe's assistant at the OSS * Matt Lauria as Peter McCormick, an American army soldier and a staf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Follow The Money (Danish TV Series)
''Follow the Money'' ( da, Bedrag) is a Danish television financial crime thriller. The first series of ten episodes is set in the renewable energy business in Denmark. It was broadcast in Denmark in January 2016. The second series was broadcast in October–November 2016, continuing with most of the characters from the first series, but with the main focus on a bank practising P2P lending and their attempted takeover by a bank whose chair, Knud Christensen, was behind the fraud case investigated in the first season. The third series, again ten episodes, was aired in January 2019. It focuses on money laundering with two of the main characters from the previous two series. Main cast Broadcast The first series, which has dialogue in Danish, Swedish and English, was broadcast subtitled in the UK on BBC Four from March 2016 under the title ''Follow the Money'' with two episodes being shown back-to-back. In Finland, the first episode was broadcast on 12 April 2016 on Yle Fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep State (TV Series)
''Deep State'' is a British television espionage thriller series, written and created by Matthew Parkhill and Simon Maxwell, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on Fox on 5 April 2018. The first eight-part series, which began filming in May 2017, stars Mark Strong as Max Easton, a former Field Agent for MI6 who is recruited back into the field. The series co-starred Joe Dempsie, Karima McAdams, Lyne Renée, Anastasia Griffith and Alistair Petrie. The series is produced by Endor Productions for the Fox Networks Group of Europe and Africa. As well as co-creating the series, Parkhill also serves as showrunner, executive producer and director of four of the eight episodes. The series premiered in the United States on 17 June 2018 on Epix. A second season was commissioned on 5 April 2018. The second season premiered on 28 April 2019 in the United States, starring Walton Goggins as an ex-CIA operative drawn into a political crisis in Mali. As of 2022, there has been no confirmation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Looming Tower (miniseries)
''The Looming Tower'' is an American television miniseries, based on Lawrence Wright's 2006 book of the same name, which premiered on Hulu on February 28, 2018. The 10-episode drama series was created and executive produced by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, and Wright. Futterman also acted as the series's showrunner and Gibney directed the first episode. The series stars an ensemble cast featuring Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Peter Sarsgaard. Premise ''The Looming Tower'' traces the "rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. It follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington, D.C., the counter-terrorism divisions of the FBI and CIA, respectively, as they travel the world fighting for ownership of inform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
