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James Buddy Day
James Buddy Day is a Canadian director, writer and producer. He is the principal of Pyramid Productions. Career Since 2015, Day has been the showrunner for numerous true crime television documentaries and series including ''The Shocking Truth'', and ''Sex, Lies & Murder'' for Pyramid Productions. In 2018, Day co-wrote, co-produced and directed, ''Casey Anthony: Her Friends Speak'', in which key individuals involved in the Casey Anthony trial reunited to recall their tense interviews with police, and the media circus surrounding her high-profile trial in which Casey Anthony faced the death penalty for the death of her daughter Caylee. That same year Day directed ''Slender Man Stabbing: The Untold Story'', which featured the first interviews with many involved in the Slender Man Stabbing in Waukesha, Wisconsin. In 2019, he was the executive producer Oxygen's ''The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell'' with Texas Crew Productions, called the "definitive story" of Susan's final yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyramid Productions
Pyramid Productions is a Canadian television series producer that has aired over 20 series around the world. Since 2015, Pyramid has won critical acclaim for its edgy-styled programming in True Crime. History Formed in 1983, Pyramid’s first series ''The Movie Show'' aired for 17 years. It was broadcast in over 70 countries. The company’s best-known series include ''Whatever Happened To?'', ''Inside Hollywood'' and numerous episodes of ''Biography'' for A&E. Other clients include PBS, CBC, ABC Australia, ZDF, History Channel UK, Global Television, CTV, Movie Central, Bravo!, HBO Asia, Court TV, Animal Planet and The Movie Network. Pyramid’s first dramatic feature, based on the play, ''In a World Created by a Drunken God'', was nominated for three Gemini Awards. It won Best Feature at the 2009 World Indigenous Film Awards and was chosen to open the 33rd annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. ''The Film Festival Project'' won a Silver Medal at the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Documentary Film Producers
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Documentary Film Directors
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce McArthur
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common given name. The variant ''Lebrix'' and ''Le Brix'' are French variations of the surname. Actors * Bruce Bennett (1906–2007), American actor and athlete * Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950), American actor * Bruce Campbell (born 1958), American actor, director, writer, producer and author * Bruce Davison (born 1946), American actor and director * Bruce Dern (born 1936), American actor * Bruce Gray (1936–2017), American-Canadian actor * Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian actor and musician * Bruce Herbelin-Earle (born 1998), English-French actor and model * Bruce Jones (born 1953), English actor * Bruce Kirby (1925–2021), American actor * Bruce Lee (1940–1973), martial arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Share
Catherine Louise "Gypsy" Share (born December 10, 1942) is known as a former member of the Manson Family; she was convicted of witness intimidation in relation to the 1970 trial of the Tate-LaBianca murders. In 1971 she was convicted of armed robbery and served five years. Share was not directly involved in the Tate-LaBianca murders, for which Charles Manson and some of his followers were convicted and originally sentenced to death. She served 90 days for witness intimidation. Following her release from prison in 1975, Share disassociated herself from the "Family". She has spoken publicly about her experiences with them. Early life Share was born in Paris in 1942, to refugee parents, a Hungarian violinist father and a German Jewish mother. Her parents were members of the French Resistance movement during World War II, and committed suicide when their daughter was two. Share's maternal grandmother died in a ghetto in Eastern Europe and both of Share's paternal grandparents d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Good
Sandra Collins Good (born February 20, 1944) is a long-time member of the Manson Family and a close friend of Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme. Good's Manson Family nickname is "Blue", which was given to her by Charles Manson to represent clean air and water. Early life Good was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of an aeronautical engineer. Her parents divorced when she was four years old. Good attended Point Loma High School and was a member of the Student Opinion Club. Good attended California State University Sacramento, the University of Oregon and San Francisco State College off and on for seven years, but never received a degree. Manson Family Good joined the Manson Family in April 1968 and a few months later went off with them when they moved to a new home at Spahn Ranch in the mountains west of Chatsworth. She was in jail with Mary Brunner for attempting to use stolen credit cards when the Tate/ La Bianca murders took place, but was back at the ranch in time to get ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Fromme
Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American criminal who was a member of the Manson family, a cult led by Charles Manson. Though not involved in the Tate–LaBianca murders for which the Manson family is best known, she attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. For that crime, she was sentenced to life in prison. She was paroled from prison on August 14, 2009, after serving approximately 34 years. She published a book about her life in 2018. Early life Fromme was born on October 22, 1948, in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Helen (née Benzinger) and William Millar Fromme, an aeronautical engineer. As a child, Fromme performed with a popular dance group called the Westchester Lariats, which began touring the United States and Europe in the late 1950s, and had an appearance on ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' and at the White House. In 1963, the family moved to Redondo Beach, and Fromme began using alcohol and drugs. Her grades dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Underground Film Festival
The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) is a film festival held annually in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for 7 days at the downtown Globe Cinema.Madelaine Lapointe"Stock up on popcorn, the Calgary Underground Film Festival is coming to a theatre near you — your home!" CBC News, June 10, 2020. Founded in 2003, Calgary Underground Film Festival is a not-for-profit organization screening films that defy convention. CUFF currently has two annual festivals. The main Calgary Underground Film Festival runs for 7 days in mid-April, while the CUFF.Docs International Documentary Festival is in November. They also showcase special event screenings throughout the year. CUFF introduces audiences to the people behind the lens by showcasing local and international indie filmmakers. It showcases a roster of films rarely seen in North American theatres, screening contemporary works in various categories (feature, documentary, animation, and shorts), and all genres ( horror, sci-fi, fantasy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival
The Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival (also called DocuFest Atlanta, Atlanta DocuFest, and DocuFest) is a film festival that screens documentary films in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Paul Mariano's ''Also Ran'' was named Best Political Documentary at the 2006 festival. Don Wilson's ''Mississippi Son: A Filmmaker's Journey Home'' was named Best Dramatic Documentary at the 2007 festival. In 2009, Roger Nygard's ''The Nature of Existence'' was screened at the festival, as was Mike Ramsdell's ''The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope'', which won the Audience Choice Award that year. LGBT ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term ... documentary film ''It Doesn’t Define Us'' was screened at the 2010 festival. At the 2012 festival, Christine Anthony's and Owen Mast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Rock Film Festival
Red Rock Film Festival is an international film festival in Southern Utah in the United States. Held annually in November, in St. George, Ivins, and Springdale by Zion National Park, the festival introduces the area to new international and US independent film. The festival has competitions for both documentaries and narrative fiction features and shorts. History The Red Rock Film Festival began in Southern Utah in 2004 as a film series Zion Flix founded by commercial director Matt Marxteyn, which evolved from a film festival for college students in 1991 with founding member Derek Horne. Zion Flix was held in the OC Tanner Amphitheater in Springdale, Utah with sell-out crowds on both opening and closing nights. The festival became official known as an annual event called the Red Rock Film Festival in 2007. By 2009 the Red Rock Film Festival was cited by MovieMaker Magazine on their 2009 list of "25 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee." Premieres at the festival have included the US pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
