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Uni-versal Extras

Uni-versal Extras set out to provide a free service to all students over the age of 16, offering the opportunity of well paid part-time work in the TV and film industries.


Gloria Jean

In December 1991, Gloria Jean was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award recognizing her achievements within the film industry as a juvenile performer.

Hollywood of the East

Hollywood of the East (Informally: Hollywood East) are terms which refer to the film industry of Wilmington, North Carolina and South Eastern North Carolina in general.

Jane Withers

Withers also took a flyer in screenwriting: she wrote the original story filmed as Small Town Deb, under the pseudonym "Jerrie Walters." In 1979, Withers was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its very first Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award recognizing her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.

Motion Picture Association – Canada

The Motion Picture Association – Canada (in French: Association Cinématographique – Canada) or MPA-C is a film industry trade group which speaks for and represents the major U.S. motion picture studios in Canada for films, television, videos and DVDs.

Peter Freuchen

He was also employed by the film industry as a consultant and scriptwriter, specializing in Arctic-related scripts, most notably MGM's Oscar winning Eskimo/Mala The Magnificent starring Ray Mala, and featuring Freuchen as Ship Captain.

Pristina film festival

The Prishtina International Film Festival (PriFilmFest), also known as the Pristina Film Festival, is a film festival held annually in Pristina, Kosovo, that screens prominent international cinema productions in the Balkan region, and draws attention to the Kosovar film industry.

Turning radius

Some camera dollies used in the film industry have a "round" mode which allows them to spin around their z axis by allowing synchronized inverse rotation of their front and rear wheel sets, effectively giving them "zero" turning radius.


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Abdul Salam Mumuni

His first film, which brought attention back to the film industry in Ghana, was God Loves Prostitutes, which starred Nollywood star Genevieve Nnaji.

Abdur Rashid Kardar

He is credited as establishing the film industry in the Bhati Gate locality of Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan).

Anatomy of a Murder

"Over the years, the movie's reputation has grown. Many movie buffs believe that its adult subject matter (along with that of Psycho and Some Like It Hot) challenged the censorship guidelines the film industry" labored under at the time.

Audrina Patridge

Patridge entered the film industry with starring positions in the Direct-to-DVD movies Sorority Row (2009) and Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2011).

Chris Twomey

Twomey won a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences award as editor of "Channel 2 The people" and shared many other film industry awards while editing for CBS News "48 Hours."

Christine Glanville

She became involved in the film industry in war service at Elstree Studios and studied art during her free time.

Culture of Odisha

The name of Prashanta Nanda would always come while dealing with Oriya Film Industry.

Denys Coop

He has been followed into the film industry by his son, Trevor Coop (Camera Operator), and his three grandsons, Jason Coop (focus puller), Gareth Coop (Clapper Loader), and Adam Coop (Assistant Director)

Douglas Webb

As the British film industry went into decline he moved to the Isle of Wight in 1986, where he began to catalogue the photos of Pamela Green taken in the 1960s and '70s.

Elred Kumar

Elred Kumar was first announced as "a businessman passionate about the film industry" in an article by the Economic Times in 2009, and it was announced that he would collaborate with his business partner R. Jayaraman as a part of RS Infotainment to be the producers of Gautham Menon's Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa alongside VTV Ganesh and Escape Artists Motion Pictures' Madan.

Elvis Tsui

Tsui has ventured into the Chinese mainland film industry in recent times and currently works with film director Wong Jing.

En Manaivi

He sought out Marathi film director Sundar Rao Nadkarni who had recently entered the Tamil film industry with Shantha Sakkubai.

European Film Fund

A lot of people get jobs in the film industry (esp. at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Brothers)as screen-writers.

F. Maurice Speed

As time went on, Speed gathered together more and more outside contributors, among them Peter Noble, William K. Everson, Oswell Blakeston, Peter Cowie, Anthony Slide, Ivan Butler and Gordon Gow, as well as soliciting special articles by such film industry figures as James Mason, Michael Balcon, Cecil B. De Mille and Alfred Hitchcock.

Gil Brealey

In 1976 Brealey was appointed Officer, Order of Australia, for his services to the Australian Film Industry.

Guy Roberge

Also in 1966, Roberge was given a Canadian Film Award to mark his contribution to the country's film industry.

Ida Nerina

Throughout the years Ida has collaborated with many people such as Aziz M. Osman, Yasmin Ahmad, Datuk Yusof Haslam, Shuhaimi Baba, Datuk Lat and many more; and continues to play a role in her country's film industry.

Illuminati

Other theorists contend that a variety of historical events from Waterloo, the French Revolution, President John F. Kennedy's assassination to an alleged communist plot to hasten the New World Order by infiltrating the Hollywood film industry, were all orchestrated by the Illuminati.

Ko Joo-yeon

Ko Joo-yeon (born February 22, 1994) is a South Korean actress who has gained attention in the Korean film industry for her roles in Blue Swallow (2005) and The Fox Family (2006).

Mamat Khalid

Mohamad bin Mohamad Khalid,better known in the Malaysian film industry today as Mamat Khalid, was born on April 6, 1963 in Ipoh, Perak.

Marikar Films

Marikar Films started its venture in 2007 with co-production and distribution of Big B, which was named as a big trend setter in Malayalam Film Industry starring Mammootty in main lead.

Media Key Block

The system was developed by big companies from the film industry and the electronics industry including IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Matsushita (Panasonic), Sony, Toshiba, The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros.

Mohsin Khan

Mohsin later married Bollywood movie star Reena Roy and had a short career as an actor in the Indian film industry.

My Face for the World to See

Although many transgendered individuals have achieved some success today, Israeli Pop star Dana International and South Korean pop singer Harisu, there is as yet no major transsexual or transgendered star in the film industry.

Naya Pata

Naya Pata also holds the credit of being a debut film of the Director Pawan K Shrivastava, which is a great achievement for a newcomer in the film industry.

Niruta Singh

Born in Darjeeling, India, she started her career with the 1993 Tulsi Ghimire classic Dakshina and eventually made her way to become the No. 1 actress of Nepali film industry.

Norman J. Warren

An avid film fan from childhood, Warren entered the film industry as a runner on The Millionairess (1960) and as an assistant director (The Dock Brief, 1962) before directing the short film Fragment in 1965.

Openfilm

Its Advisory Board includes members of the film industry, such as James Caan, Robert Duvall, Scott Caan and Mark Rydell, and independent filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian.

Oswald Morris

Dropping out in 1932, he started working in the film industry at Wembley Studios as an unpaid gofer for Michael Powell, among others, eventually graduating to the positions of clapper boy and camera assistant on quota quickies.

Poonam Dasgupta

After retiring from the film industry, she made a comeback with the play Begum Sahiba co-starring Rahul Roy.

Ram Gopal Bajaj

He has also been connected with the film industry for many years, first as an assistant director in art films like Utsav (1984) and Godhuli (1977), later appearing in small character roles in films like, Masoom (1983), Hip Hip Hurray (1984), Mirch Masala (1985), closely followed by Chandni (1989).

Ravi Yadav

Ravi Yadav is an Indian cinematographer known for his notable works with director R.K.Selvamani in Tamil film Industry.

Reginald Beck

He began working in the film industry in 1927 when he joined Gainsborough Pictures before going on to work on quota quickies at Wembley Studios.

Robin Duval

On retirement from the BBFC he was made a C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the film industry.

Ron Hargrave

During his military service time he met up with the daughter of Lou Costello which started him off in the film industry.

Ronald Neame

Ronald's only grandson, Gareth Neame, is a successful television producer, who represents the fourth generation of Neames in the film industry.

Rosin Jolly

Jolly was noticed within the Malayalam film industry as the female lead of Bangkok Summer, which also starred Unni Mukundan, Rahul Madhav, and Richa Panai.

Ryan Kalil

Kalil has interests in the film industry, having made claymation films as a child and worked with fellow USC-alumnus Will Ferrell on a football training spoof for the NFL Network.

Sreekumaran Thampi

Sreekumaran Thampi, was introduced to the Malayalam film industry by P. Subramaniam as a lyricist in the film Kaatumallika, has produced about 22 films, directed 29, and wrote scripts for 78 films in Malayalam besides writing thousands of songs.

Sy Gomberg

A supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Gomberg organized members of the film industry to march with Martin Luther King, Jr., in Alabama.

Tamil culture

The Tamil cinema industry is the second largest film industry in India after Bollywood

The Merchants of Bollywood

The show is about the history of the Bollywood film industry, and it is named after Hiralalji Merchant and his grand daughter Vaibhavi Merchant, two notable Indian choreographers.

They Were Sisters

Despite having achieved star-status via previous Gainsborough films such as The Man in Grey and Fanny by Gaslight, and being arguably the top male box-office draw in the country at the time, Mason's dissatisfaction with what he saw as the limitations of the British film industry were evident during the making of the film, and he later admitted that he acted most of his bullying, sadistic role in varying degrees of drunkenness.

Tio Pakusadewo

Tio would not reenter the film industry until 2004, when he portrayed a "sugar daddy" in Hanny Saputra's film Virgin.

Victor Potel

Victor Potel was born in Lafayette, Indiana in 1889, and his acting career goes back almost to the beginning of the commercial film industry in the United States.

William L. Hendricks

Aside from his USMCR career he also worked in the film industry for many years, initially as a documentary producer for the United States Army, then as a production executive at Warner Bros., where he eventually became the final producer of the Looney Tunes series.

Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal

In 1936, he was one of the main investors in J. Arthur Rank's General Cinema Finance Corporation, the company which one year later would become the British film industry's most important company, The Rank Organisation.