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Chase Zellenberg is a young 20-something cancer patient who makes a living through being an extra. He tries desperately to survive his illness, balance his work and chemotherapy, all while attempting to make a name for himself in the harsh world of acting. But with his health rapidly deteriorating throughout the film, his life starts falling apart when he gets evicted from his apartment, and gets berated for being late to a gig. He then realizes that he has nothing left but to accept the gig he hated the most in the first place, he reluctantly accepts the zombie gig in the horror film, and with all his remaining strength, he puts on the greatest performance of his young career.
Keywords: actor, cancer, death, zombie-attack
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Theater artiste, Anubhav Malhotra, is looking for his first break on the silver screen when he runs into a fan in wealthy Meera Valecha. Both become good friends, fall in love, but when Meera's family disapproves, elope and get married. They re-locate to live in a room rented from Ibrahim Vakil and Anubhav gets some work in TV serials. His friend, Aditya, decides to give him a lead role in a forthcoming movie based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Meera then becomes pregnant, subsequently gives birth to a very ill baby girl, is told that the baby is no more, but Anubhav decides to medically treat the child, and is asked to deposit Rs.20 Lakhs. Unable to come up with this amount, he decides to cater as a resort to wealthy women for a price through a pimp, Vanraj. In this way he pays for his child's treatment, feels drained, and is unable to become intimate with Meera anymore. He continues catering to wealthy women behind her back but nothing will prepare him for the shock when he is asked to visit a female client he has never seen before - shattering and changing his life forever.
An actor's tale
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Elizabeth and Taylor were the perfect couple as young advertising students mentored by legendary ad-man Jack Horne. Their lives and careers diverged, however, when Elizabeth left Taylor at the altar. When Horne passes away and bequeaths control of his Bitter Sweet Ad Agency to both of his promising protégés, the two learn quickly that, in order to succeed, they'll need to bury the hatchet before they kill each other.
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Former gay porn star 'Colton Ford' (qv) has decided to get out of the porn business to follow his life long passion, music and being a professional singer. But, can he break away from his gay porn past, and achieve success in the mainstream music industry without the porn stigma holding him back? Director 'Christopher Long (I)' (qv) has crafted an unusual documentary by following Ford, his partner 'Blake Harper' (qv) (who also wants to escape his porn career), and their interactions with a variety of professional music, club, and porn industry veterans. It's a bumpy ride, but hopefully a successful path to what Ford believes is his destiny.
Keywords: apartment-hunting, arguing, autographed-poster, baby-picture, birthday-party, calling-911, coyote, crotch-grab, crying, dance-music
The hard road from porn to pop.
The Right Way isn't always the way to find your Dreams
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After the passing of her parents, Lakshmi goes to live with her relatives, who after some time, compel her to re-locate with Danpat Rai and his family, consisting of his wife; a son, Raghunath and his wife and three children; and a second unmarried alcoholic son, Balram. Raghunath and his wife leave the household in protest of her arrival, and Balram attempts to sell her to a goon but she manages to escape, and rather dramatically gets hired as singer/actress in a theater. From thence there is no looking back, and she soon becomes a popular movie star, acting with famous actors such as Dev Anand and Ashok Kumar. Balram and others improve their respective lifestyles and exploit her to no end, forcing her to work hard - without any break. When she falls in love with a Journalist, Amar, they caution her that he is only after her money, but she disregards their advice and wants her share of the wealth that has been accumulated so that she can move out and live with Amar, his mother and four sisters. She will soon be faced with harsh reality when she comes to know that she is penniless, and it is Balram who, through a signed contract, controls her life. But nothing will prepare for the shock when she will find the real reason why Amar was attracted to her, and it is then she will head toward a nervous breakdown - that will bring drastic change to her already stressful lifestyle.
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to the film studio or other financing entity, while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed. Many film producers also have competency in other fields (directors, screenwriters, actors) but that is not always the case.
The producer is often actively involved throughout all major phases of the filmmaking process, from inception and development to completion and delivery of a film project. However, an idea or concept for a film can originate with any individual, including a screenwriter, a director or a producer.
A producer begins by obtaining the rights to create or co-create a feature-length screenplay. The producer oversees the process, which includes coordinating, supervising and controlling major aspects of the project. This includes fundraising and hiring key roles such as the casting director or film director. They'll also influence the hiring of other personnel such as the UPM or line producer and accountant.
Dana Brunetti (born June 11, 1973) is an American film producer. He is currently president of Trigger Street Productions, which was founded by the actor Kevin Spacey in 1997, and Founder of Trigger Street Labs.
In 2008 he produced the film 21, a film based on the New York Times best selling book Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich. In early 2009, Brunetti worked with the author again and produced the film The Social Network, based on Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher. In 2011 the film was nominated for 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Music (Original Score), Actor In A Leading Role, Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Sound Mixing and Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Brunetti talked about The Social Network on KCRW's The Business Podcast .
He also produced Fanboys, a 2009 comedy film about fanatic Star Wars fans. The film was distributed by The Weinstein Company, and originally slated for release on August 17, 2007. However, after numerous notorious delays for re-shoots and disagreements over the film’s final cut, Fanboys release was delayed until February 9, 2009. Brunetti discussed the film’s struggles with The Weinstein Company in interviews on KCRW’s The Business podcast and in The New York Times .
Katrina Kaif (born 16 July 1984) is a British Indian actress and former model who appears in Indian films, mainly in the Hindi-language film industry. She has also appeared in Telugu and Malayalam films. She was voted the sexiest Asian woman in the world by Eastern Eye in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. Being a British citizen, she works in India on an employment visa.
Kaif made her acting debut with Kaizad Gustad's box office bomb Boom (2003). She tasted success in 2007 with Vipul Shah's Namastey London and followed with such films as Anees Bazmee's Welcome (2007), Abbas-Mustan's Race (2008) and Kabir Khan's New York (2009). She has since appeared in critically and commercially successful films like Prakash Jha's political thriller Rajneeti (2010) and Zoya Akhtar's dramedy Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011).
Kaif was born in Hong Kong, to an Indian Kashmiri father, Mohammed Kaif, and an English mother, Susanna Turquotte, both of whom are British citizens. Her parents divorced when she was very young. Kaif once stated, "My dad, unfortunately, and not out of choice, has had no influence on our upbringing, on our religious or social or moral bearings." When she came to India, she changed her surname to Kaif, because it was Indian in origin. Furthermore, Ayesha Shroff has maintained that the actress' original name is Katrina Turquotte. Kaif has seven siblings; a brother and six sisters. From Hong Kong, she and her family moved to China, then to Japan. From there she went to France when she was 8, and thereafter lived for a few months at a time in Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Belgium, and other European countries. Then she moved with her family to Hawaii, and eventually to her mother's home country of England. Although it is often assumed that Kaif is from London, she lived there only for three years before finally moving to Mumbai.
Todd Harris is a play-by-play announcer for ESPNU college football coverage and Ultimate Fighting Championship airing on Versus.
Prior to those duties, he was the lead play-by-play announcer for ABC and ESPN's coverage of the Indy Racing League's IndyCar Series. He has also called motocross, supercross, and X Games coverage on ESPN, and has been the lead announcer for the World's Strongest Man competition.
Harris has recently been added to NBC Sports coverage of the Dew tour, both Summer and Winter and the NBC family of networks winter sports coverage.
In the past, Harris' duties at other networks have included covering the NBA playoffs for TNT, and being a commentator for NBC's special high-definition coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Harris has now been popping up on NBC after his stellar showing at the Vancouver games. After he and Jonny Mosely were the best announce team for NBC, Harris is the new host of the Dew Action Sports tour for NBC Sports as well as the World of Adventure Sports and will host all of NBC's freestyle skiing and snowboarding for the next few years. Harris will also be a part of NBC's coverage of the London Olympic Games in 2012
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.