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ROBERT M. YOUNG (BOB)
Bob was born in New York City and has made many award winning
documentaries and fiction films. During the period of 2004-2009 he
directed 5 episodes of Battlestar Galactica with Edward James Olmos,
for which he was awarded a Peabody. This is just one of numerous
awards Bob has won, including: the Camera d'Or at Cannes, Best
Feature at San Sebastian and the Grand Jury Award at Sundance Film
Festival.
Bob was born in New York City and has made many award winning
documentaries and fiction films. During the period of 2004-2009 he
directed 5 episodes of Battlestar Galactica with Edward James Olmos,
for which he was awarded a Peabody. This is just one of numerous
awards Bob has won, including: the Camera d'Or at Cannes, Best
Feature at San Sebastian and the Grand Jury Award at Sundance Film
Festival.
GIAN VITTORIO BALDI
Baldi born in Bologna, Italy, 1930, is one of Italy's most heralded and
uncompromising producers, writers and directors. He produced several
of the most important films of the 1960's and 70's, including Robert
Bresson's Four Nights of a Dreamer, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Pigsty, and
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena by Jean Marie Straub and Daniel Huillet. In
1960 Baldi founded the Italian Documentary Institute, with the purpose
of promoting the study of the art of cinema in general and
documentaries and shorts in particular. In 1999 Baldi founded the
Hypermedia University in Bologna, Italy, a centre for media studies, of
which he is still the principal.
Baldi born in Bologna, Italy, 1930, is one of Italy's most heralded and
uncompromising producers, writers and directors. He produced several
of the most important films of the 1960's and 70's, including Robert
Bresson's Four Nights of a Dreamer, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Pigsty, and
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena by Jean Marie Straub and Daniel Huillet. In
1960 Baldi founded the Italian Documentary Institute, with the purpose
of promoting the study of the art of cinema in general and
documentaries and shorts in particular. In 1999 Baldi founded the
Hypermedia University in Bologna, Italy, a centre for media studies, of
which he is still the principal.
JERRY STILLER
Jerry was born in 1927 in New York City. As Frank Costanza on
Seinfeld, Jerry was nominated for a 1997 Emmy Award, won the 1998
American Comedy Award for 'Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a
Television Series' and in 2008 was honored by viewers and the Paley
Center for Media as 'TV's All Time Funniest Relative'. Among his film
appearances were the Academy Award nominated short Shoeshine
(1988) with his son Ben Stiller, The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three,
Those Lips-Those Eyes, Airport '75, Hot Pursuit and Hairspray (the
original). In February 2007 Jerry and his wife Anne were honored with a
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, only one of four married couples
to ever be honored with their own star.
Jerry was born in 1927 in New York City. As Frank Costanza on
Seinfeld, Jerry was nominated for a 1997 Emmy Award, won the 1998
American Comedy Award for 'Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a
Television Series' and in 2008 was honored by viewers and the Paley
Center for Media as 'TV's All Time Funniest Relative'. Among his film
appearances were the Academy Award nominated short Shoeshine
(1988) with his son Ben Stiller, The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three,
Those Lips-Those Eyes, Airport '75, Hot Pursuit and Hairspray (the
original). In February 2007 Jerry and his wife Anne were honored with a
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, only one of four married couples
to ever be honored with their own star.
MAESTRO SILVANO CAMPEGGI (NANO)
Born in Florence, Italy, Campeggi became one of cinema's premier
poster artists. He has worked for MGM, Warner Bros., Universal, Dear
Film, Rank, RKO, Columbia, and Fox. He designed the posters for 64
Oscar winning films including: Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. He
also designed posters for: Ben Hur, West Side Story, Bambi, An
American in Paris, Exodus, Butterfield 8, Singing in the Rain, and
hundreds of others.
Born in Florence, Italy, Campeggi became one of cinema's premier
poster artists. He has worked for MGM, Warner Bros., Universal, Dear
Film, Rank, RKO, Columbia, and Fox. He designed the posters for 64
Oscar winning films including: Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. He
also designed posters for: Ben Hur, West Side Story, Bambi, An
American in Paris, Exodus, Butterfield 8, Singing in the Rain, and
hundreds of others.
ALDO TAMBELLINI
Aldo was born in Syracuse, New York in 1930. He was taken to Italy at
the age of eighteen months where he lived in Lucca (Tuscany). In 1946,
Aldo returned to the United States. With a full scholarship at Syracuse
University he received a BFA in Painting, ‘54 and a Teaching Fellowship
at the University of Notre Dame, MFA ’59. He founded the
underground, “counter-culture” group, “Group Center,” which organized
alternative ways and non-traditional presentation of the artists’ work to
the public. He pioneered in the video art movement in the late 60’s.
Simultaneously, Aldo began a series of “Electromedia Performances”
which organically brought together, projected paintings, film, video,
poetry, light, dance, sound and live musicians. He founded the Gate
Theatre, the only daily public theatre showing avant-garde independent
filmmakers. Aldo has won First Place in the “Short Experimental Film by
an Independent Filmmaker” category at the New England Film Festival
and a Gold medal from the Italian Government, Lucchesi Nel Mondo
Organization, in recognition of his lifetime achievement in the Arts.
Aldo was born in Syracuse, New York in 1930. He was taken to Italy at
the age of eighteen months where he lived in Lucca (Tuscany). In 1946,
Aldo returned to the United States. With a full scholarship at Syracuse
University he received a BFA in Painting, ‘54 and a Teaching Fellowship
at the University of Notre Dame, MFA ’59. He founded the
underground, “counter-culture” group, “Group Center,” which organized
alternative ways and non-traditional presentation of the artists’ work to
the public. He pioneered in the video art movement in the late 60’s.
Simultaneously, Aldo began a series of “Electromedia Performances”
which organically brought together, projected paintings, film, video,
poetry, light, dance, sound and live musicians. He founded the Gate
Theatre, the only daily public theatre showing avant-garde independent
filmmakers. Aldo has won First Place in the “Short Experimental Film by
an Independent Filmmaker” category at the New England Film Festival
and a Gold medal from the Italian Government, Lucchesi Nel Mondo
Organization, in recognition of his lifetime achievement in the Arts.
ALBERT MAYSLES
Two of America's foremost non-fiction filmmakers, Albert Maysles and
his brother David (1932-1987) are recognized as pioneers of "direct
cinema," the distinctly American version of French "cinema verité." They
earned their distinguished reputations by being the first to make non-
fiction feature films- films in which the drama of human life unfolds as is,
without scripts, sets, or narration. Born in Boston of Jewish immigrants
from Eastern Europe, Albert received his B.A. at Syracuse and his M.A.
at Boston University where he taught Psychology for three years. He
made the transition from Psychology to film in the summer of 1955 by
taking a 16mm camera to Russia to film patients at several mental
hospitals. The result, Psychiatry in Russia, was Albert’s first foray into
filmmaking. In 1994, the International Documentary Association
presented Albert with their Career Achievement Award. He has received
S.M.P.T.E.’s 1997 John Grierson Award for Documentary, the American
Society of Cinematographers’ 1998 President’s Award - given for the
first time to a documentarian, the Boston Film and Video Foundation’s
1998 Vision Award, Toronto's Hot Docs 1999 Lifetime Achievement
Award, the 1999 Flaherty Award and the Thessaloniki 2001 Lifetime
Achievement Award. In 1999 Eastman Kodak saluted Albert as one of
the 100 world's finest cinematographers.Albert received the Sundance
Film Festival 2001 Cinematography Award for Documentaries for Lalee's
Kin: The Legacy of Cotton. In 2001 Lalee's Kin was nominated for an
Academy Award and in 2004 the film received the DuPont Columbia Gold
Baton Award.
Two of America's foremost non-fiction filmmakers, Albert Maysles and
his brother David (1932-1987) are recognized as pioneers of "direct
cinema," the distinctly American version of French "cinema verité." They
earned their distinguished reputations by being the first to make non-
fiction feature films- films in which the drama of human life unfolds as is,
without scripts, sets, or narration. Born in Boston of Jewish immigrants
from Eastern Europe, Albert received his B.A. at Syracuse and his M.A.
at Boston University where he taught Psychology for three years. He
made the transition from Psychology to film in the summer of 1955 by
taking a 16mm camera to Russia to film patients at several mental
hospitals. The result, Psychiatry in Russia, was Albert’s first foray into
filmmaking. In 1994, the International Documentary Association
presented Albert with their Career Achievement Award. He has received
S.M.P.T.E.’s 1997 John Grierson Award for Documentary, the American
Society of Cinematographers’ 1998 President’s Award - given for the
first time to a documentarian, the Boston Film and Video Foundation’s
1998 Vision Award, Toronto's Hot Docs 1999 Lifetime Achievement
Award, the 1999 Flaherty Award and the Thessaloniki 2001 Lifetime
Achievement Award. In 1999 Eastman Kodak saluted Albert as one of
the 100 world's finest cinematographers.Albert received the Sundance
Film Festival 2001 Cinematography Award for Documentaries for Lalee's
Kin: The Legacy of Cotton. In 2001 Lalee's Kin was nominated for an
Academy Award and in 2004 the film received the DuPont Columbia Gold
Baton Award.
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TOM BOWER
Tom is an American actor who has appeared in a wide variety of
television and film roles from 1973 to present. He played
physician-husband Curt on The Waltons. He has held a number of
prominent supporting roles including Dan Miller in the 2000 film Pollock
and the gas station attendant in the 2006 film The Hills Have Eyes. He
also plays the barkeep in the Battlestar Galactica episode, "Taking a
Break from All Your Worries". He has also had many notable roles in
films such as River's Edge, Beverly Hills Cop II, Die Hard 2, Clear and
Present Danger, Nixon, and The Negotiator. His 2008-09 roles include
Appaloosa, with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, Gospel Hill, with Danny
Glover and Angela Bassett, as well as playing Pat McDonough, the father
of Nicolas Cage's character, in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,
Sheriff Bob Maples in The Killer Inside Me, with Casey Affleck, and Crazy
Heart with Jeff Bridges. Bower is also an award-winning stage actor.
Tom is an American actor who has appeared in a wide variety of
television and film roles from 1973 to present. He played
physician-husband Curt on The Waltons. He has held a number of
prominent supporting roles including Dan Miller in the 2000 film Pollock
and the gas station attendant in the 2006 film The Hills Have Eyes. He
also plays the barkeep in the Battlestar Galactica episode, "Taking a
Break from All Your Worries". He has also had many notable roles in
films such as River's Edge, Beverly Hills Cop II, Die Hard 2, Clear and
Present Danger, Nixon, and The Negotiator. His 2008-09 roles include
Appaloosa, with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, Gospel Hill, with Danny
Glover and Angela Bassett, as well as playing Pat McDonough, the father
of Nicolas Cage's character, in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,
Sheriff Bob Maples in The Killer Inside Me, with Casey Affleck, and Crazy
Heart with Jeff Bridges. Bower is also an award-winning stage actor.