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Tommy Oliver (producer)
Tommy Oliver is an American film producer, director, writer, cinematographer, photographer, financier, and entrepreneur. He directed, produced, shot, and edited AFI Film Festival audience award winner'' Juice Wrld: Into The Abyss'' (2021), '' 40 Years a Prisoner,'' and ''1982'', and recently produced four Sundance Film Festival 2023 films including Young. Wild. Free., Fancy Dance, To Live and Die and Live (EP), and the Grand Jury Prize winner, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project. He also produced'' The Perfect Guy'' (2015) and Sundance Film Festival and AFI Film Festival audience award winner ''Kinyarwanda'', and co-created and Executive Produced the documentary series ''Black Love.'' Oliver is also known for his photography including his 70+ photos in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Oliver is from Philadelphia, a Carnegie Mellon University alum, Founder and CEO of the production company Confluential Films, and Founder and Chairman o ...
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TheWrap
''TheWrap'' is an American online news website covering the business of entertainment and media via digital, print and live events. It was founded by journalist Sharon Waxman Sharon I. Waxman (born c.1963) is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has been a correspondent for '' The Washington Post'' and '' The New York Times'', and founded the Hollywood and media business news site ''TheWrap'' in early 2009. ... in 2009. Awards ''TheWrap'' has won awards for its journalism, including best website in 2018 for a news organization exclusive to the internet at the L.A. Press Club's SoCal Journalism Awards and best entertainment website in 2018 at the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism (NAEJ) awards. In 2016, the L.A. Press Club's NAEJ gave the site its top prizes for feature photography and Sharon Waxman's WaxWord blog, as well as second place for Best Entertainment Website and Entertainment Publication. The site was named the best online news site in both 201 ...
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Forbes
''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics, and law. It is based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Competitors in the national business magazine category include ''Fortune'' and ''Bloomberg Businessweek''. ''Forbes'' has an international edition in Asia as well as editions produced under license in 27 countries and regions worldwide. The magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, including of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400), of the America's Wealthiest Celebrities, of the world's top companies (the Forbes Global 2000), Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People, and The World's Billionaires. The motto of ''Forbes'' magazine is "Change the World". Its chair and editor-in-chief is Steve Fo ...
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Film Producers From Pennsylvania
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American Film Producers
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The Perfect Find
''The Perfect Find'' is an upcoming American romantic comedy film based on the book of the same name by Tia Williams. The film adaptation was written by Leigh Davenport and directed by Numa Perrier. It stars Gina Torres, Keith Powers, and Gabrielle Union, who is also a co-producer. ''The Perfect Find'' is filming as of June 2021 and will debut on Netflix though a release date has not been announced. Plot Forty-year-old Jenna Jones makes a career change into the world of beauty journalism. She runs into problems when she realizes that her frenemy Darcy is her boss, and she soon starts a relationship with Darcy's son, Eric, the company's videographer. Cast Per ''Deadline'': * Gabrielle Union as Jenna Jones * Gina Torres as Darcy Vale * Keith Powers as Eric *La La Anthony as Elodie *Aisha Hinds as Billie *Janet Hubert as Monica *Latoia Fitzgerald *Remy Ma *Diana Noris as Helena *Phoenix Noelle *Ts Madison *Numa Perrier as Pearl Bailey Production Development On November 6, ...
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Fancy Dance
Fancy dance, Pan-Indian dancing, Fancy Feather or Fancy War Dance is a style of dance some believe was originally created by members of the Ponca tribe in the 1920s and 1930s, in an attempt to preserve their culture and religion. It is loosely based on the War dance. Fancy dance was considered appropriate to be performed for visitors to Indian reservation, reservations and at "Wild West" shows. But today, fancy dancers can be seen at many powwows across the nation and even the world. History Native American dances, the practices of medicine men, and religious ceremonies were banned by White authorities with the promulgation of the “Rules for Indian Courts” on April 10, 1883. As in many oppressed cultures, the ceremonies simply went underground to avoid detection by the authorities. Tribes created new dances that could legally be danced in public.Ellis, 19 Kiowa and Comanche created new styles of dance regalia in the 1930s that included long-johns with bells attached to the k ...
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Into The Abyss
Into the Abyss may refer to: * ''Into the Abyss'' (book), a 2012 non-fiction book by Carol Shaben * ''Into the Abyss'' (film), a 2011 documentary by Werner Herzog * ''Into the Abyss'' (album), a 2000 album by Hypocrisy * "Into the Abyss" (song), a 1982 song by Sex Gang Children * ''Into the Abyss'', an upcoming game based on season 2 of '' Guardians Evolution'' * "Into the Abyss", an episode of the 2008 BBC series ''Pacific Abyss'' See also * Abyss (other) * " In the Abyss", an 1896 short story by H. G. Wells * "Made in Abyss is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihito Tsukushi. It has been serialized online in Takeshobo's digital publication ''Web Comic Gamma'' since October 2012, and has been collected into eleven ''tankōbon'' volumes. T ...
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Destined (film)
''Destined'' is a 2016 American fantasy drama film written and directed by Qasim Basir and starring Cory Hardrict, Hill Harper, La La Anthony and Jesse Metcalfe. Cast *Cory Hardrict as Sheed / Rasheed *Jesse Metcalfe as Officer Holder / Dylan Holder *Robert Christopher Riley as Cal / Calvin *Margot Bingham as Maya *La La Anthony as Jada *Hill Harper as Mayor Jones *Jason Dohring as Nathan Miller/Officer Miller *Zulay Henao as Giselle Porter Reception The film has a 33% rating on Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang .... References External links * * {{rotten-tomatoes, destined American fantasy drama films 2010s English-language films Hood films 2010s American films 2010s fantasy drama films English-language fantasy drama films ...
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Halfway (2016 Film)
''Halfway'' is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Ben Caird and starring Quinton Aaron. The film is Caird's directorial debut and Aaron served as an executive producer. On November 1, 2017, 'Halfway' was nominated for a British Independent Film Award in the Discovery Award category. Plot Cast *Quinton Aaron as Byron *Jeffrey DeMunn as Walt * Marcus Henderson as Paulie *Gillian Zinser as Eliza *Amy Pietz as Beth * T.J. Power as Josh * Billy Aaron Brown as Sean Production According to Aaron, "We shot the movie over four weeks on the Lepeska family farm in Montfort, Wisconsin." Aaron confirmed in another interview, "The writer and director, Ben Caird, his family farm is actually where we shot it at. Ben's British, but his mother is from Wisconsin, and their family farm was the farm we used in the movie in Montfort. So that's what brought us out here." Early in development, Edi Gathegi was to have portrayed Paulie. Release ''Halfway'' made its worldwide premier ...
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey, Delaware, and the northern Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the 17th largest in the United States as of 2017. Founded on June 1, 1829 as ''The Pennsylvania Inquirer'', the newspaper is the third longest continuously operating daily newspaper in the nation. It has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes . ''The Inquirer'' first became a major newspaper during the American Civil War. The paper's circulation dropped after the Civil War's conclusion but then rose again by the end of the 19th century. Originally supportive of the Democratic Party, ''The Inquirers political orientation eventually shifted toward the Whig Party and then the Republican Party before officially becoming politically independent in the middle of the 20th cen ...
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Los Angeles Sentinel
The ''Los Angeles Sentinel'' is a weekly African-American owned newspaper published in Los Angeles, California. The paper boasts of reaching 125,000 readers , making it one of the oldest, largest and most influential African-American newspapers in the Western United States. The ''Sentinel'' was also noted for their coverage of the changing African-American daily life experience in the post-1992 Los Angeles Riots era. The ''Sentinel'' was founded in 1933 by Leon H. Washington Jr. for Black readers. Since that time, the newspaper has been considered a staple of Black life in Los Angeles. The paper mainly focuses on and thus enjoys most of its circulation in the predominantly African-American neighborhoods of South Los Angeles, Inglewood and Compton. The office is on Crenshaw Boulevard with commercial corridor in the Hyde Park neighborhood which is known as "the heart of African American commerce in Los Angeles". On March 17, 2004, the ''Sentinel'' was purchased and came under t ...
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