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The current Golden Age of TV is a two-way street; that is to say that the excellence of cable, streaming, and broadcast programs have created a Venn Diagram intersection of incredibly talent artists who vacillate between the two. 2018’s Festival de Cannes gave credence to this idea with films like We, the Coyotes . Cast members included Morgan Saylor (of Showtime’s five-time Golden Globe winning series Homeland , and Rob Reiner’s Being Charlie ) as Amanda, Betsy Brandt (of AMC’s Breaking Bad ) as Jeanine, and Whitney Anderson (of Showtime's two-time Golden Globe winning series Masters of Sex ) as Chelsea. American audiences may not be as aware of Canadian cast member Leonard Waldner who appears as an LA landlord in the film but the film’s producer Raphael Gindre professes, “Leonard was cast from amongst hundreds of actors to appear in We, the Coyotes . Leonard is a great actor, very methodic and outstanding. His performance and energy is nothing short of tremendous. Leonard brings...

Miss Bongo is a premium SMS texting service that is available in France, Australia, and the UK. As the VP of Digital Design, Meredith Stevens is responsible for creating the fun and quirky graphics delivered to users with each text. The collectible graphics entice viewers to use the service multiple times. Miss Bongo Prix also includes a special customized message for each user. Customers are impressed by how much Miss Bongo Avis knows about their lives. This intriguing content comes from a proprietary database. Young users of the service love trading the notes and digital animations and showing them off to their friends. As an Australian native, Meredith Stevens spends time in Bondi Beach, Australia and Santa Monica, California. Stevens is dedicated to pursuing a healthy lifestyle. She enjoys surfing, kayaking, and yoga, as well as landscape photography. She is an accomplished amateur chef who loves to create amazing yet healthy dishes for her family and friends. Meredi...

French creative, Antoine Navarro, considers himself fortunate to have been able to travel the world with his parents from a very young age. Along the way, he slowly fell in love with the world’s remaining traces of ancient civilization and the mysterious buildings, sculptures, and statues they left behind. As he explored, and as he gained more exposure to the various pieces of architecture that today’s society has to offer, he experienced an overwhelming sense of fascination and he knew that it was a world he was destined to be a part of. He finds himself energized by the way each building, pillar, and column could connect him to the designers’ experiences and to the cultures that they lived in. Today, Navarro is a highly sought-after architect designer and feels a great sense of pride in knowing that he found a way to channel his deepest passions into tangible projects for the benefit of not only his clients, but of the general public, who experience his designs around them without e...

@shaaa_ness is a musician from Chicago, the producer and creative director behind Richie Red Panda .  How did you begin your music career? Well, I just started (joking). I was interested in music from an early age but later became interested in engineering and post-production. I studied that for a while, so as well as being an artist I'm also an engineer. As I progressed, I realized I still wanted to compose and write my own music. I started with dancehall and reggae. I've always drawn a lot of inspiration from the genre so it was a natural place to start. After that began experimenting more with hip-hop, trap, west coast, and drill. The beats then developed into the sound today, an amalgam of all the different music and cultures I listen to are inspired by. What inspires you to songwriting? Anything can inspire a new song. Something that happened to me or someone else, an anime or manga, a picture, or a song I heard by another artist. Sometimes, I write sol...

Hard Money Bankers is a private money lending company. It is their mission to make borrowing as fast and as easy as possible. If you are looking for financing for a residential or commercial investment and you live in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania, Hard Money Bankers can help. If you are thinking about getting some financial help from Hard Money Bankers, you should know a bit about each of their financial wizards. Jason Balin- Senior Underwriter Jason is a Senior Underwriter at the company. While he is a real estate entrepreneur in Columbia, Maryland, he spends most of his time as one of Hard Money Banker's partners. Over the years, Jason has founded several real estate investment firms. He also has several years of experience working as a real estate agent, mortgage broker, and a real estate investor. He has a B.S. in Management and a minor in Coaching Sciences. You can be sure that you are working with the best the second you sit down...

It’s funny to Cman Wong that she is now a successful Art Director. For many years, she never considered it when thinking about her future. Now, she wakes up every day and loves what she does. She finds mediocrity an impossible standard to live by, and she always aims for greatness, something she achieves day in and day out as an Art Director. “I’ve loved art and design for as long as I can remember. I was drawn into the look of things naturally. My parents then sent me to learn drawing. My basic concept of composition and visualization skills started to develop from there. It was a good training to have diligent effort, so my hands could be able to do things up to my taste and ambition,” she said. Beginning her career as a graphic designer, Cman started working with large companies right away. During her time at the agency Sillything, she began doing layout for their magazine Obscura , a multinational publication that promoted brands like Chanel, Givenchy, and more. Cman’s...

Born and raised in Belgium, Virginie grew up in a family of collectors who spent their weekends in flea markets hunting for unique pieces. Her family home was a haven of beautiful artworks of great cultural diversity including paintings, furniture and various other decorative elements. Virginie Pringiers ’ work is distinguished by her bold passion for the lost and found, the forgotten and remembered, the iconic and the cosmic. Virginie pursued artistic studies and became a graduate of the prestigious school of Van Der Kelen Logelain (Brussels) where she specialized in “trompe l’oeil” (a painting or design intended to create a visual illusion). She also mastered cinematographic arts, theatre-set design and the renovation of cultural artefacts. During her studies, artists such as Rauschenberg, Basquiat and Cy Twombly inspired her to start drawing and painting. Virginie found her own style of creating different textures on canvas using layers of old paper glued togeth...

Horror/Thriller films go through cycles just like anything else in life. The slasher films of the 80’s like Friday the 13th (thirteen films in the franchise and generating a WW box office of nearly half a billion dollars) and Halloween (eleven films earning nearly a billion dollars), found footage based stories like the Blair Witch Project (earning $248 million from a budget of $60,000) and Paranormal Activity (a box office of nearly $200,000 million from a budget of $15,000) allows one to pinpoint the era in which a film was created. It also proves that this is one area of filmmaking which can produce massive dividends from a small financial investment. Filmmakers strive for new ways to elicit the cathartic experience these films offer. Recent productions of this genre are seeking a psychological and social basis, the message of which runs congruent to the fears often discussed in the headlines of news outlets. The monsters we fear these days are those which may come from the mo...

Hollywood’s film industry takes a lot of flak but for more than a century it has been entertaining people around the world with its creations. Even beyond entertaining us, these productions inform and inspire. We learn about the lives of others much different from our own. As aggrandizing as it may sound, this makes the world a more aware and hopefully kinder place. While many are involved, none are so visible as the actors who appear in these films. Much like us, the characters they portray have led different paths but these actors connect with them in a way that resonates with audiences everywhere. Marine Francoise Lanctuit may be from Paris but she is completely authentic as an Oakland social worker named Maria in the Oscar Hernandez film Oakland, Eastside Story . The rough area of Oakland in this northern Californian city is far different from Paris but the opportunity to be a part of this intense and heart-gripping film had the French actress immersing herself in the environment....

Of the many things Steve Jobs is noted for, film is not the most prominent. However, when he purchased Lucasfilm Computer Graphic Group in 1986 and dubbed it Pixar, he began one of the most popular new film companies in modern times completely based on the goal of making short films. Lucas’s own USC sci fi short Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB raised his prominence as an up and coming filmmaker. In 2007 Disney signed a new Cal Arts graduate named Tim Burton to direct a short (in actuality a remake of his original stop animation) film entitled Frankenweenie . Though the majority of movie goers pay attention to these names after their more acclaimed box office hits, the industry took note long before. If anything, short films have more prominence these days than in prior decades. The budgets are lower, the production schedules are shorter, and the studios have obviously been copying the Indie vibe that is so noted for its unconventionality. Many professionals in the film community ha...

It is often said that the difference between success and failure is a great team. Filmmakers know this to be the truth. When watching the credits of your favorite film, it is easy to see just how many individuals it takes to make just one movie a masterpiece. At the helm of every film and television venture are the producers, ultimately deciding the major decisions for each project. When China’s Huidi Sun was approached to take on a commercial for Kam Yen Jan sausages, she knew she needed to build an extraordinary team to make an extraordinary piece. That is when she reached out to fellow producer Xiangrong (Sherry) Du. Kam Yen Jan sausage is a very famous food company. Established in 1948, January Company is the leading manufacturer in North America of Chinese style meat products, including Kam Yen Jan Chinese Style Sausage and Yangtze Chinese Style BBQ Pork. Their products are manufactured using an authentic and original recipe, state of the art equipment, and high food ...

Los Angeles based actor Jolie Chi moved to the United States at the age of sixteen to pursue an acting career. A native of Taiwan, she has caught the attention of audiences in both the United States and Asia. Her talent and versatility has led to coveted roles in feature films, national commercials, stage plays, television series, and music videos. Ms. Chi’s strong commercial presence in the US includes campaigns for the California Lottery and similarly in China with Momo (a Chinese instant-messaging service) with features on billboards and at movie theatres across the country. Her witty stage presence and charisma has opened doors to performances at top comedy clubs including the Laugh Factory (widely recognized as the #1 comedy club in the United States), Flappers, The Ice House, and The Comedy Store. Ms. Chi was also cast as the character of Ming Ling on Tru TV’s new series television series Laff Mobb's Laff Tracks and is featured in its most popular episode to date. She ...