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Stefan Schaefer
Stefan Schaefer is an American writer, director and producer of films and television. Biography Early life and education Schaefer was born in Boston, spent his childhood in Sussex, England and his adolescent years in Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ... and New York (state), New York. He studied acting and political theory at Skidmore College and Wesleyan University, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Following a year and a half in Germany—where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Kiel—he returned to New York and co-founded the production company Cicala Filmworks. He is the maternal grandson of polar explorer and ornithologist Carl R. Eklund. Career Schaefer's films have premiered and won awards at festivals such as the Berlin I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (film)
''The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela'' is a 2008 drama film directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson. Premise Raquela, a Filipino Transsexualism, transsexual Prostitution, prostitute dreams of making a new life in Paris. She becomes an Internet Pornographic actor, porn star and meets Valerie, an Icelandic transsexual, and Michael, the owner of the website she works for. Cast *Raquela Rios as Herself *Stefan Schaefer as Ardilo, Michael *Olivia Galudo as Olivia *Brax Villa as Aubrey *Valerie Grand Einarsson as Valerie Einarsson Distribution and reception The film showed at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film. It has been screened in the ''Emerging Visions'' section of the 2008 South by Southwest festival in the United States. It received the Grand Jury Prize in the 10th 2008 Cinemanila International Film Festival at Malacañan Palace's Kalayaan Hall. References External linksOfficial site [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Even Though The Whole World Is Burning
''Even Though the Whole World Is Burning'' is a feature documentary film about former United States Poet Laureate and environmental activist W. S. Merwin. The film is directed and produced by Stefan Schaefer, and screened at, among others, the Maui Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Seattle International Film Festival, and the Hawaii International Film Festival. W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree ''W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree'' is a one-hour documentary edited from ''Even Though the Whole World Is Burning'', produced by Cicala Filmworks and WNET, and directed by Stefan Schaefer, specifically for national broadcast on PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu .... It screened widely at film festivals. Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Channel (United States)
Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996. The channel is named after Robert Redford's character in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' and, while it is an extension of Redford's non-profit Sundance Institute, the channel operates independently of both the Institute and the Sundance Film Festival. Originally, Sundance was devoted to airing documentaries, independent feature films, short films, world cinema, and coverage on the latest developments from each year's Sundance Film Festival. The channel has since incorporated both original and acquired programming and became fully ad-supported in 2013, with programming being edited for content soon thereafter. , the channel was available to approximately 60.668 million households with television (52.1% of all subscribers) in the United States. History As Sundance Channel (1996–2014) After negotiations during 1994 broke down t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Silber
Christoph Silber (often credited as Chris Silber), born 26 April 1971 in Berlin, is a German-American author and filmmaker. Rated among "Europe's hottest new screenwriters" by ''Screen International'', Silber works and lives in the United States. Early life Silber spent most of his childhood and youth in Germany. Raised bilingual, he studied in London and Berlin. His mother is a philosopher and award-winning literary translator, his foster father was a well-known Shakespeare scholar and dramaturge. Silber's step-grandmother fought the Nazis in WWII as a Soviet secret agent. His grandfather was a denazification officer for the Allied Forces and confronted former Nazi leaders after the war. Writing runs in Silber's family, with several journalists and published authors in his bloodline. Career Silber worked as an actor, translator and journalist prior to his professional writing career. Taking advantage of his bilingual upbringing, he translated film-related books and screenplay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Imperioli
Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966) is an American actor, writer, and musician. He is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO crime drama ''The Sopranos'' (1999–2007), which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004. He gained recognition in the early part of his career for his role as Spider in Martin Scorsese's ''Goodfellas'' (1990). He has had supporting roles in films such as '' Jungle Fever'' (1991), '' Bad Boys'' (1995), '' The Basketball Diaries'' (1995), ''Shark Tale'' (2004) and ''The Lovely Bones'' (2009), as well as in the HBO drama series ''The White Lotus'' (2022-present). Imperioli is a successful screenwriter, co-writing the screenplay for ''Summer of Sam'' (1999) with Spike Lee, writing five episodes of ''The Sopranos'', and writing as well as directing the feature film ''The Hungry Ghosts'' (2008). Early life Imperioli was born in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the son of Dan Imperi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Harbour
David Kenneth Harbour (born April 10, 1975) is an American actor. He has played supporting roles in films such as ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005), ''Quantum of Solace'' (2008), '' State of Play'' (2009), ''The Green Hornet'' (2011), ''End of Watch'' (2012), ''Snitch'' (2013), '' The Equalizer'' (2014), '' Black Mass'' (2015), ''Suicide Squad'' (2016), '' Sleepless'' (2017) and '' Extraction'' (2020). He gained global recognition for his portrayal of Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction drama series ''Stranger Things'' (2016–present), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award in 2018, two Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Harbour portrayed the title character in ''Hellboy'' (2019), Red Guardian in '' Black Widow'' (2021) and the upcoming film '' Thunderbolts'' (2024), and Santa Claus in ''Violent Night'' (2022). Early life David Kenneth Harbour was born on April 10, 1975, in White Plains, New York, to parents Kenneth and Nancy (nà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Beharie
Nicole Beharie is an American actress. She is best known for her starring roles in films such as the drama ''American Violet'' (2008), the psychological drama ''Shame (2011 film), Shame'' (2011), the biographical sports drama ''42 (film), 42'' (2013), and the independent drama ''Miss Juneteenth'' (2020). From 2013 to 2016, she starred in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox supernatural drama series ''Sleepy Hollow (TV series), Sleepy Hollow''. Early life Beharie was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. When Beharie was little, her father was in the United States Foreign Service, so she grew up in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, Nigeria and Panama. She attended Orangeburg Wilkinson High School in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and is a 2003 graduate of the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, a public boarding school, residential high school in Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville. Beharie was then accepted into Juilliard School, one of the most prestigious performi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Duken
Ken Duken (born 17 April 1979) is a German actor and director. Early life Ken Duken is the third child of film and stage actress Christina Loeb; his father is a doctor. Duken never attended a drama school but took courses in drama, including under James Reynold. The actor initially played various theatre roles, including in such plays as '' Der Besuch der alten Dame'' (The visit of the old lady), '' Das Haus in Montevideo'' (The house in Montevideo) and in various Shakespeare plays. He debuted as a film actor in 1997, playing a small role in the television crime film ''Blutiger Ernst'' alongside Nadja Uhl and Daniel Brühl. Career Duken played his first major role on a movie screen in 1999, alongside Franka Potente and Heiner Lauterbach in Friedemann Fromm's ' (''Schlaraffenland''). That same year he starred in Miguel Alexandre's drama ''Gran Paradiso'', which was nominated for the German Film Award. For this film, in which he plays Mark, a young wheelchair user, he completed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Lister-Jones
Zoe Lister-Jones (born September 1, 1982) is an American actress, and filmmaker who co-starred as Jen Collins Short in the CBS sitcom ''Life in Pieces'' from 2015 to 2019. She is also known for her roles in the television shows ''Delocated'' (2009–2010), ''Whitney (TV series), Whitney'' (2011–2013), and ''New Girl'' (2015). Lister-Jones made her directorial debut with the 2017 comedy-drama film ''Band Aid (film), Band Aid''. In 2020, she wrote and directed the horror film ''The Craft: Legacy''. She also co-wrote and co-directed the comedy-drama film ''How It Ends (2021 film), How It Ends'' (2021) with Daryl Wein. Early life and education Lister-Jones was born in Brooklyn, New York City. Her mother is the Canadian-born and New York-based video artist Ardele Lister, and her father is the American photographer and media artist Bill Jones (artist), Bill Jones. Her mother was born to a American Jews, Jewish family, whereas her father Conversion to Judaism, converted to Judaism. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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