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Cinequest Film
The Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival is an annual independent film festival held each March in San Jose, California and Redwood City, California. The international festival combines the cinematic arts with Silicon Valley’s innovation. It is produced by Cinequest, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that is also responsible for Picture The Possibilities and the distribution label Cinequest Mavericks Studio LLC. Cinequest awards the annual Maverick Spirit Awards. In addition to over 130 world or U.S. premieres from over 30 countries, the festival hosts writer's events including screenwriting competitions, a shorts program, technology and artistic forums and workshops, student programs, and a silent film accompanied on the theatre organ. Founded in 1990 as the Cinequest Film Festival, the festival was rebranded in 2017 as the Cinequest Film & VR Festival and expanded beyond downtown San Jose to Redwood City. It took its present name in 2019. History Filmmakers Halfdan H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and Northern California and the List of United States cities by population, 12th-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of and is the county seat, seat of Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County. Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was long inhabited by the Tamyen people, Tamien nation of the Ohlone people San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as the ''Pueblo de San José de Our Lady of Guadalupe, Guadalupe'', the first city founded in the Californias. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 after the Mexican Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairmont San Jose
The Signia by Hilton San Jose is a postmodern high-rise hotel at 170 South Market Street in San Jose, California, located on the Plaza de César Chávez in Downtown San Jose. Constructed in 1987 as the Fairmont San Jose, it reopened as a Hilton hotel in 2022. The former south tower of the hotel is now a student residence for San Jose State University, Spartan Village on the Paseo. Description The hotel is a 22-story tower designed in postmodern style by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum with Nishkian Menninger as structural engineers, with 500 rooms and 42 suites. It includes 65,000 square feet of meeting space, including a large ballroom. There is a fitness center and a rooftop swimming pool and deck with a specially designed windscreen to create a microclimate designed to be acceptable for sunbathing and swimming. History The hotel stands on the site of San Jose's first Chinese enclave, the Market Street Chinatown, which existed from 1866 until its destruction by arson in 188 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. Known for Kevin Spacey on screen and stage, his work on stage and screen, he List of awards and nominations received by Kevin Spacey, has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for 12 Emmy Awards. Spacey was named an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2015. Spacey began his film career with small roles in Mike Nichols's comedy-drama films ''Heartburn (film), Heartburn'' (1986) and ''Working Girl'' (1988). He won two Academy Awards: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor for playing a con man in ''The Usual Suspects'' (1995) and Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor for playing a suburban husband and father going through a midlife crisis in ''American Beauty (1999 film), American Beauty'' (1999). His other films include ''Glengarry Glen Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) is an American actress. She began her career on television during the 1970s before making her film breakthrough in the teen film ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' (1982). She received critical praise for her performances in ''Last Exit to Brooklyn (film), Last Exit to Brooklyn'' (1989), ''Miami Blues'' (1990), ''Backdraft (film), Backdraft'' (1991), ''Single White Female'' (1992), and ''The Hudsucker Proxy'' (1994), and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in ''Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle'' (1994). Leigh starred in a 1995 film written by her mother, screenwriter Barbara Turner (screenwriter), Barbara Turner, titled ''Georgia (1995 film), Georgia''. She co-wrote and co-directed a film with Alan Cumming titled ''The Anniversary Party'' (2001). Leigh starred in the crime drama ''Road to Perdition'' (2002) and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Valdez
Luis Miguel Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and actor. Regarded as the father of Chicano film and playwriting, Valdez is best known for his play '' Zoot Suit'', his movie '' La Bamba'', and his creation of El Teatro Campesino. A pioneer in the Chicano Movement, Valdez broadened the scope of theatre and arts of the Chicano community. Biography Early life Valdez was born in Delano, California, to migrant farm worker parents from Mexico, Armeda and Francisco Valdez. The second of 10 children in his family, Valdez began to work the fields at the age of 6. One of his brothers is actor Daniel Valdez. Throughout his childhood, the family moved from harvest to harvest around the central valleys of California. Due to this peripatetic existence, he attended many different schools before the family finally settled in San Jose, California. Education Valdez began school in Stratford, California. His interest in theatre began in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waters (filmmaker)
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his Transgressive art, transgressive cult films, including ''Multiple Maniacs'' (1970), ''Pink Flamingos'' (1972) and ''Female Trouble'' (1974). Waters wrote and directed the comedy film ''Hairspray (1988 film), Hairspray'' (1988), which was later adapted into a Hairspray (musical), hit Broadway musical and a Hairspray (2007 film), 2007 musical film. His other films include ''Desperate Living'' (1977), ''Polyester (film), Polyester'' (1981), ''Cry-Baby'' (1990), ''Serial Mom'' (1994), ''Pecker (film), Pecker'' (1998), and ''Cecil B. Demented'' (2000). His films contain elements of Postmodern art, post-modern comedy and Surrealism and film, surrealism. As an actor, Waters has appeared in the films ''Sweet and Lowdown'' (1999), ''Mangus!'' (2011), ''Excision (film), Excision'' (2012), and ''Suburban Gothic (film), Suburban Gothic'' (2014), as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His style involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film they are working on. In 1961, when Herzog was 19, he started work on his first film Herakles (film), ''Herakles''. He has since produced, written, and directed over 60 films and documentaries such as ''Aguirre, the Wrath of God'' (1972); ''The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser'' (1974); ''Heart of Glass (film), Heart of Glass'' (1976); ''Stroszek'' (1977); ''Nosferatu the Vampyre'' (1979); ''Fitzcarraldo'' (1982); ''Cobra Verde'' (1987); ''Lessons of Darkness'' (1992); ''Little Dieter Needs to Fly'' (1997); ''My Best Fiend'' (1999); Inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Meyer
Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American filmmaker. He was primarily known for writing and directing a successful series of sexploitation films featuring campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women, which have attracted a considerable cult following. His best-known works include ''Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'' (1965), '' Vixen!'' (1968), '' Supervixens'' (1975), '' Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens'' (1979), and the film he considered to be his definitive work, '' Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' (1970). Early years Russ Meyer was born in San Leandro, California, the son of Lydia Lucinda (Hauck) and William Arthur Meyer, an Oakland police officer. His parents were both of German descent. Meyer's parents divorced soon after he was born, and Meyer was to have virtually no contact with his father during his life. When he was 14 years old, his mother pawned her wedding ring in order to buy him an 8 mm film camera. He made a numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Franklin
Carl Franklin (born April 11, 1949) is an American filmmaker and former actor. Franklin is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, and continued his education at the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree in directing in 1986. His cinematic directorial efforts include '' One False Move'', '' Devil in a Blue Dress'' and '' High Crimes''. Since the 2010s, most of his work has been for television, including shows such as: ''Rome'', '' The Pacific'', '' The Newsroom'', '' House of Cards'', '' Homeland'', '' The Affair'', '' The Leftovers'', ''13 Reasons Why'', '' Ray Donovan'', '' Mindhunter, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story'', and '' Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story''. Early life Franklin grew up in Richmond, California. He never had the opportunity to know his biological father, who had died before Carl was born. Franklin was raised by his mother and stepfather. While Franklin speaks highly of his stepfather and has called h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bartel
Paul Bartel (August 6, 1938 – May 13, 2000) was an American actor, writer and director. He was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy ''Eating Raoul'', which he co-wrote, starred in and directed. Bartel appeared in over 90 movies and TV episodes, including such titles as ''Eat My Dust!'' (1976), Hollywood Boulevard (1976 film), ''Hollywood Boulevard'' (1976), ''Rock 'n' Roll High School'' (1979), ''Get Crazy'' (1983), ''Chopping Mall'' (1986), and ''Amazon Women on the Moon'' (1987). He frequently co-starred with friend and former Warhol girl Mary Woronov; the pair appeared in 17 films together, often as husband and wife. Bartel also directed 11 low-budget films, many of which he also acted in or wrote. He started in 1968 with the short ''The Secret Cinema'', a paranoid delusional fantasy of self-referential cinema. He graduated to features in 1972 with the horror-comedy ''Private Parts (1972 film), Private Parts''. He would go on to direct such cult films as ''Dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Stolze
Lena Stolze (born 8 August 1956) is a German television and film actress. Life and work Lena Stolze's father is Gerhard Stolze, a tenor, and her mother is the actress Gabi Stolze. In 1961, the family moved from East Germany to Vienna. Lena Stolze is best known for playing Sophie Scholl in '' Fünf letzte Tage'' and '' Die Weiße Rose'' (Both 1982), and for her role as Sonja (a fictionalized version of Anna Rosmus) in ''Das schreckliche Mädchen'' (1990). She and Julia Jentsch both won the Film Award in Gold at the German Film Awards as "Best Actress" for portraying Sophie Scholl, in their separate portrayals, in ''Die Weiße Rose (1982)'' and ''Die Letzen Tage (2005)'', respectively. Awards *1983 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress Filmography *1978 **''Lemminge'' (TV film) *1982 **'' Fünf letzte Tage'' (''Last Five Days'', film) **'' Die Weiße Rose'' (''The White Rose'', film) *1984 **'' Die Schaukel'' (''The Swing'', film) **'' Morgen in Alabama'' (''Man Under Suspicion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Jost
Jon Stephen Jost (born 16 May 1943) is an American independent filmmaker from Chicago. Born in Chicago to a military family, Jost grew up in Georgia, Kansas, Japan, Italy, Germany and Virginia. He began making films in January 1963 after being expelled from college. In 1965 he was imprisoned by US authorities for 2 years and 3 months for refusing to cooperate with the Selective Service System. On his release, he engaged in anti-war activities primarily by working for the draft resistance, Chicago Mobilization, and helped found the Chicago branch of Newsreel, the New Left Film production and distribution group. Career A self-taught filmmaker, Jost made his first full-length film in 1974. He has made forty long-form films focused on a wide range of American issues. Jost's work has been screened at major film festivals around the world. The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, screened a complete retrospective of his work from January 18 to February 19, 1991. This program was repeated at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
