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Michael Govan
Michael Govan (born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Prior to his current position, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.

Early life and education
Govan was born in 1963 in North Adams, Massachusetts, and was raised in the Washington D.C. area, attending Sidwell Friends School.He majored in art history and fine arts at Williams College, where he met Thomas Krens, who was then director of the Williams College Museum of Art. Govan became closely involved with the museum, serving as acting curator as an undergraduate. After receiving his B.A. from Williams in 1985, Govan began an MFA in fine arts from the University of California, San Diego.

Career
As a twenty-five year old graduate student, Govan was recruited by his former mentor at Williams, Thomas Krens, who in 1988 had been appointed director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Govan served as deputy director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum under Krens from 1988 to 1994, a period that culminated in the construction and opening of the Frank Gehry designed Guggenheim branch in Bilbao, Spain. Govan supervised the reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection galleries after its extensive renovation.

Dia Art Foundation
From 1994 to 2006, Govan was president and director of Dia Art Foundation in New York City. There, he spearheaded the conversion of a Nabisco box factory into the 300,000 square foot Dia:Beacon in New York's Hudson Valley, which houses Dia's collection of art from the 1960s to the present. Built in a former Nabisco box factory, the critically acclaimed museum has been credited with catalyzing a cultural and economic revival within the formerly factory-based city of Beacon. Dia's collection nearly doubled in size during Govan's tenure, but he also came under criticism for "needlessly and permanently" closing Dia's West 22nd Street building. During his time at Dia, Govan also worked closely with artists James Turrell and Michael Heizer, becoming an ardent supporter of Roden Crater and City, the artists' respective site-specific land art projects under construction in the American southwest. Govan successfully lobbied Washington to have the 704,000 acres in central Nevada surrounding City declared a national monument in 2015.

LACMA
In February 2006, a search committee composed of eleven LACMA trustees, led by the late Nancy M. Daly, recruited Govan to run the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Govan has stated that he was drawn to the role not only because of LACMA's geographical distance from its European and east coast peers, but also because of the museum's relative youth, having been established in 1961. "I felt that because of this newness I had the opportunity to reconsider the museum," Govan has written, "[and] Los Angeles is a good place to do that."Govan has been widely regarded for transforming LACMA into both a local and international landmark. Since Govan's arrival, LACMA has acquired by donation or purchase over 27,000 works for the permanent collection, and the museum's gallery space has almost doubled thanks to the addition of two new buildings designed by Renzo Piano, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) and the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Pavilion. LACMA's annual attendance has grown from 600,000 to nearly 1.6 million in 2016.

Artist collaborations
Since his arrival, Govan has commissioned exhibition scenography and gallery designs in collaboration with artists. In 2006, for example, Govan invited LA artist John Baldessari to design an upcoming exhibition about the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, resulting in a theatrical show that reflected the twisted perspective of the latter's topsy-turvy world. Baldessari has also designed LACMA's logo. Since then, Govan has also commissioned Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo to design LACMA's Art of the Ancient Americas gallery, described in the Los Angeles Times as a "gritty cavern deep inside the earth ... crossed with a high-style urban lounge."Govan has also commissioned several large-scale public artworks for LACMA's campus from contemporary California artists. These include Chris Burden's Urban Light (2008), a series of 202 vintage street lamps from different neighborhoods in Los Angeles, arranged in front of the entrance pavilion, Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Shafted) (2008), Robert Irwin's Primal Palm Garden (2010), and Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass, a 340-ton boulder transported 100 miles from the Jurupa Valley to LACMA, a widely publicized journey that culminated with a large celebration on Wilshire Boulevard. Thanks in part to the popularity of these public artworks, LACMA was ranked the fourth most instagrammed museum in the world in 2016.In his first three full years, the museum raised $251 million—about $100 million more than it collected during the three years before he arrived. In 2010, it was announced that Govan will steer LACMA for at least six more years. In a letter dated February 24, 2013, Govan, along with the LACMA board's co-chairmen Terry Semel and Andrew Gordon, proposed a merger with the financially troubled Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and a plan to raise $100 million for the combined museum.

Zumthor Project
Govan's latest project is an ambitious building project, the replacement of four of the campus's aging buildings with a single new state of the art gallery building designed by architect Peter Zumthor. As of January 2017, he has raised about $300 million in commitments. Construction is expected to begin in 2018, and the new building will open in 2023, to coincide with the opening of the new D Line metro stop on Wilshire Boulevard. The project also envisages dissolving all existing curatorial departments and departmental collections. Some commentators have been highly critical of Govan's plans. Joseph Giovannini, recalling Govan's technically unrealizable onetime plan to hang Jeff Koons' Train sculpture from the facade of the Ahmanson Gallery, has accused Govan of "driving the institution over a cliff into an equivalent mid-air wreck of its own". Describing the collection merging proposal as the creation of a "giant raffle bowl of some 130,000 objects", Giovannini also points out that the Zumthor building will contain 33% less gallery space than the galleries it will replace, and that the linear footage of wall space available for displays will decrease by about 7,500 ft, or 1.5 miles. Faced with losing a building named in its honor, and anticipating that its acquisitions could no longer be displayed, the Ahmanson Foundation withdrew its support.
On the merging of the separate curatorial divisions to create a non-departmental art museum, Christopher Knight has pointed out that "no other museum of LACMA's size and complexity does it" that way, and characterized the museum's 2019 "To Rome and Back" exhibition, the first to take place under the new scheme, as "bland and ineffectual" and an "unsuccessful sample of what's to come".

Personal life
Govan is married and has two daughters, one from a previous marriage. He and his family used to live in a $6 million mansion in Hancock Park that was provided by LACMA - a benefit worth $155,000 a year, according to most recent tax filings - until LACMA decided that it would sell the property to make up for the museum's of almost $900 million in debt [2]. That home is now worth nearly $8 million and Govan now lives in a trailer park in Malibu's Point Dume region.
Los Angeles CA 90020
United States. He has had a private pilot's license since 1995 and keeps a 1979 Beechcraft Bonanza at Santa Monica Airport.
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The Seventh Company Outdoors
The Seventh Company Outdoors (French: La Septième Compagnie au clair de lune) is a 1977 French comedy film directed by Robert Lamoureux. It is a sequel to Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to?.

Cast
Jean Lefebvre - Pithivier
Pierre Mondy - Chaudard
Henri Guybet - Tassin
Patricia Karim - Suzanne Chaudard
Gérard Hérold - Le commandant Gilles
Gérard Jugnot - Gorgeton
Jean Carmet - M. Albert, le passeur
André Pousse - Lambert
Michel Berto
Passage 3:
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Career
Since 1967, Levin has amassed a large number of credits directing episodic television and television films. Some of his television series credits include Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, James at 15, The Paper Chase, Family, Starsky & Hutch, Lou Grant, Fame, Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order and Judging Amy.Some of his television film credits include Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980), A Reason to Live (1985), Popeye Doyle (1986), A Killer Among Us (1990), Queen Sized (2008) and among other films. He directed "Heart in Hiding", written by his wife Audrey Davis Levin, for which she received an Emmy for Best Day Time Special in the 1970s.
Prior to becoming a director, Levin worked as an actor in several Broadway productions. He costarred with Susan Strasberg in "[The Diary of Ann Frank]" but had to leave the production when he was drafted into the Army. He trained at the Carnegie Mellon University. Eventually becoming a theatre director, he directed productions at the Long Wharf Theatre and the Pacific Resident Theatre Company. He also co-founded the off-off-Broadway Theatre [the Hardware Poets Playhouse] with his wife Audrey Davis Levin and was also an associate artist of The Interact Theatre Company.
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Colin Low (filmmaker)
Colin Archibald Low  (July 24, 1926 – February 24, 2016) was a Canadian animation and documentary filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was known as a pioneer, one of Canada's most important filmmakers, and was regularly referred to as "the gentleman genius". His numerous honors include five BAFTA awards, eight Cannes Film Festival awards, and six Academy Award nominations.

Early life
Low was born and raised in Cardston, Alberta, to Gerald and Marion Low, ranchers who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The town borders the Kainai Nation (Blood Tribe), which later became the subject of two of his films; his 1960 film Circle of the Sun marked the first time the Kainai Nation's sacred Sun Dance was filmed.

Career
Low studied graphic design and animation at the Banff School of Fine Arts and then the Calgary Institute of Technology. In 1946, while he was at the latter, the National Film Board of Canada was hiring and put out a call for student submissions; one of Low's teachers suggested that he send in his portfolio and, a week later, he was hired by the prominent NFB filmmaker Norman McLaren. McLaren placed Low under the tutelage of George Dunning, who would act as his mentor for five years. To hone his animation skills, he was also put to work with NFB animator Evelyn Lambart.Low was recognized as a filmmaker in 1949. In 1950, he was appointed Head of the Animation Unit. From 1972 to 1976, he was an executive producer for the NFB's Studio C; in 1976, he became Director of Regional Production. He would stay with the NFB for the rest of his life, making 203 films and acting as a researcher and advisor on many others. He officially retired in 1997, but continued to write about animation and large-format film, and to work on film projects.

Influence on Stanley Kubrick and Ken Burns
Low's 1957 documentary City of Gold made use of slow pans and zooms across archival photos and has been cited by Ken Burns as a key inspiration for the so-called 'Ken Burns effect'.In 1960, Low and Roman Kroitor co-directed Universe, capturing the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who was preparing to make 2001: A Space Odyssey. Low was invited to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey but had to decline because he was making In the Labyrinth, a multi-screen production for Expo 67. Some of his ideas and techniques were incorporated into Kubrick's film and Kubrick used the narrator from Universe (Douglas Rain) as the voice of his HAL 9000 computer.

Challenge for Change
From 1966 to 1968, Low worked with the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland to shoot 27 films for the NFB's Challenge for Change program, using media as a tool to bring about social change and combat poverty.

IMAX
Low was involved in a series of firsts in the wide-screen genre. The experimental multi-screen production In the Labyrinth helped lead to the creation of the IMAX format. Low co-directed the first IMAX 3D production Transitions for Expo 86 in Vancouver, and co-directed Momentum, the first film in 48 frames per-second IMAX HD for Expo 92 in Seville, Spain.

Lifetime achievement recognition
In 1972, at the 24th Canadian Film Awards, Low received the inaugural Grierson Award for "an outstanding contribution to Canadian cinema."In 2002, the Large Format Cinema Association presented Low and the NFB with its Abel Gance Award for outstanding work in large format filmmaking.In 1997, Low was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier, given to individuals for an outstanding career in Québec cinema. In 2013, the DOXA Documentary Film Festival created the annual Colin Low Award, presented to the best Canadian documentary film in the festival program.
Low was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and, in 1996, in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to cinema in Canada and around the world, was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada.

Personal life and death
Shortly after joining the NFB, Low met Eugénie (Jean) St. Germain in Montreal. They married in 1947 and had three sons. He was survived by his wife and sons when he died in Montreal on February 24, 2016.

Filmography
All for the National Film Board of Canada
Cadet Rousselle - animated short, George Dunning 1946 - co-animator with George Dunning
Christmas Carols - animated short, Jim MacKay 1947 - co-animator with Grant Munro, Helen MacKay, Robert Verrall, George Dunning and Lyle Enright
Time and Terrain - documentary short 1948 - director, animator, co-editor with Robert Verrall
Teamwork - Past and Present - animated short, Michael Spencer 1950 - editor, animator
Challenge: Science Against Cancer - documentary short, Morten Parker 1950 - co-animator with Evelyn Lambart
The Fight: Science Against Cancer - documentary short, Morten Parker 1950 - co-animator with Evelyn Lambart
The Outlaw Within - documentary short, Morten Parker 1951 - co-animator with Evelyn Lambart
Age of the Beaver - documentary short 1952 - director
The Romance of Transportation in Canada, Part 1 - animated short 1952 - director
The Romance of Transportation in Canada, Part 2 - animated short 1953 - director
A Thousand Million Years - documentary short 1954 - director
One Little Indian - puppet film, Grant Munro 1954 - co-producer with Tom Daly
Corral - documentary short 1954 - writer, director
Riches of the Earth - documentary short 1954 - director
Gold - documentary short 1955 - director
The Jolifou Inn - documentary short 1955 - editor, director
It's a Crime - animated short Wolf Koenig 1957 - production designer
City of Gold - documentary short 1957 - with Wolf Koenig, co- cinematographer and co-director
The Living Stone - documentary short, John Feeney 1958 - co-cinematographer with Patrick Carey and Wally Gentleman
City Out of Time - documentary short 1959 - director
A is for Architecture - documentary short, Gerald Budner and Robert Verrall 1960 - co-producer with Tom Daly
Hors-d'oeuvre - animated short, Gerald Potterton, Robert Verrall, Arthur Lipsett, Derek Lamb, Jeff Hale and Kaj Pindal 1960 - co-producer with Victor Jobin
Universe - documentary short 1960 - co-director with Roman Kroitor
Circle of the Sun - documentary short 1960 - writer, director
The Days of Whiskey Gap - documentary short 1961 - director
Very Nice, Very Nice - documentary short, Arthur Lipsett 1961 - co-producer with Tom Daly
Do You Know the Milky Way? - documentary short 1961 - director
My Financial Career - cartoon, Gerald Potterton 1962 - co-producer with Tom Daly
The Peep Show - cartoon, Kaj Pindal 1962 - producer
The World of David Milne - documentary short, Gerald Budner 1962 - co-producer with Tom Daly
Pot-pourri - montage, Jeff Hale, Derek Lamb, Austin Campbell, Kaj Pindal, Grant Munro, Cameron Guess, Rhoda Leyer 1962 - co-producer with Victor Jobin
21-87 - documentary short, Arthur Lipsett 1963 - co-producer with Tom Daly
The Ride - short film, Gerald Potterton 1963 - producer
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - animated short, Derek Lamb 1963 - producer
The Hutterites - documentary short 1964 - director
Free Fall - experimental short, Arthur Lipsett 1964 - co-producer with Tom Daly
An Essay on Science - documentary short, Guy L. Coté 1964 - co-animator with Pierre L'Amare
Riches of the Earth, Revised - documentary short 1966 - director
McGraths At Home and Fishing - documentary short 1967 - director
The Mercer Family - documentary short 1967 - director
The Merchant and the Teacher - documentary short 1967 - director
The Songs of Chris Cobb - documentary short 1967 - director
Tom Best on Co-Operatives - documentary short 1967 - director
A Wedding and a Party - documentary short 1967 - director
Citizen Discussions - documentary short 1967 - director
Dan Roberts on Fishing - documentary short 1967 - director
Discussion on Welfare - documentary short 1967 - director
Fishermen's Meeting - documentary short 1967 - director
Some Problems of Fogo - documentary short 1967 - director
The Story of the Up Top - documentary short 1967 - director
Two Cabinet Ministers - documentary short 1967 - director
The Fogo Island Improvement Committee - documentary short 1967 - director
Fogo's Expatriates - documentary short 1967 - director
The Founding of the Co-operatives - documentary short 1967 - director
Jim Decker Builds a Longliner - documentary short 1967 - director
Jim Decker's Party - documentary short 1967 - director
Joe Kinsella on Education - documentary short 1967 - director
Thoughts on Fogo and Norway - documentary short 1967 - director
Andrew Britt at Shoal Bay - documentary short 1967 - director
Billy Crane Moves Away - documentary short 1967 - director
Brian Earle on Merchants and Welfare - documentary short 1967 - director
The Children of Fogo Island - documentary short 1967 - director
William Wells Talks About the Island - documentary short 1967 - director
A Woman's Place - documentary short 1967 - director
In the Labyrinth - documentary short 1967 - co-director with Roman Kroitor and Hugh O'Connor
Introduction to Fogo Island - documentary short 1968 - director
The Winds of Fogo - documentary short 1969 - director
Of Many People - documentary short, Stanley Jackson 1970 - co-editor with Malca Gillson and John Spotton
Cell 16 - documentary short, Martin Duckworth 1971 - producer
The Sea - documentary short, Bané Jovanovic 1971 - co-producer with Tom Daly and William Brind
Time Piece - documentary short, Albert Kish 1971 - producer
God Help the Man Who Would Part with His Land - documentary, George C. Stoney 1971 - co-producer with Tom Daly
I Don't Think It's Meant For Us... - documentary short, Kathleen Shannon 1971 - co-producer with George C. Stoney
Here is Canada - documentary short, Tony Ianzelo 1972 - producer
The Question of TV Violence - documentary, Graeme Ferguson 1972 - producer
That Gang of Hoodlums? - documentary short, Robert Nichol 1972 - co-executive producer with Len Chatwin
A Memo from Fogo - documentary, Roger Hart 1972 - producer
When I Go...That's It! - documentary short 1972 - co-producer and co-director with George C. Stoney, Ron Alexander and Dennis Sawyer
Child, Part 1: Jamie, Ethan and Marlon: The First Two Months - documentary short, Robert Humble 1973 - executive producer
Child, Part 2: Jamie, Ethan and Keir: 2-14 Months - documentary short, Robert Humble 1973 - executive producer
Child, Part 3: Debbie and Robert: 12-24 Months - documentary short, Robert Humble 1973 - executive producer
The Greenlanders - documentary short, Hubert Schuurman 1973 - co-executive producer with Len Chatwin
Rock-A-Bye - documentary short, Jacques Bensimon 1973 - executive producer
Kainai - documentary short, Raoul Fox 1973 - producer
Do Your Thing - documentary short, Len Chatwin 1973 - production team
The Man Who Can't Stop - documentary, Michael Rubbo 1973 - executive producer
Coming Home - documentary, Bill Reid 1973 - co-producer with Tom Daly
Sub-Igloo - documentary short, James de Beaujeu Domville and Joseph B. MacInnis 1973 - executive producer
Freshwater World - documentary short, Giles Walker 1974 - executive producer
King of the Hill - documentary, William Canning and Donald Brittain 1974 - executive producer
Another Side of the Forest - documentary short, Raoul Fox and Strowan Robertson 1974 - executive producer
Running Time - feature, Mort Ransen 1974 - executive producer
Sananguagat: Inuit Masterworks - documentary short, Derek May 1974 - executive producer
Thoughts on the Future with George McRobie - documentary short, Roger Hart 1974 - executive producer
The Boat That Ian Built - documentary short, Andy Thomson 1974 - co-producer with Stanley Jackson
Cree Hunters of Mistassini - documentary, Boyce Richardson and Tony Ianzelo 1974 - producer
In Praise of Hands - documentary short, Donald Winkler 1974 - co-producer with Tom Daly
In Search of the Bowhead Whale - documentary, Bill Mason 1974 - executive producer
The New Alchemists - documentary short, Dorothy Todd Hénaut 1974 - producer
Our Land is Our Life - documentary, Boyce Richardson and Tony Ianzelo 1974 - producer
Sisters of the Space Age - documentary short, James Carney 1974 - executive producer
Bate's Car: Sweet as a Nut - documentary short, Tony Ianzelo 1974 - executive producer
Waiting for Fidel - documentary, Michael Rubbo 1974 - executive producer
Bill Loosley's Heat Pump - documentary short, Kenneth McCready 1975 - executive producer
I Am an Old Tree - documentary, Michael Rubbo 1975 - executive producer
In All Seasons - documentary short, Ernest Reid 1975 - executive producer
Jack Rabbit - documentary short, William Brind 1975 - executive producer
The Lady and the Owl - documentary short, William Canning 1975 - executive producer
Metal Workers - documentary short, Robert Fortier and Donald Winkler 1975 - co-producer with Rick Raxlen and Tom Daly
Musicanada - documentary, Malca Gillson and Tony Ianzelo 1975 - executive producer
A New Bargain - documentary short, Roger Hart 1975 - executive producer
Vietnam Recall - documentary, Desmond Dew 1975 - executive producer
New Romance (Aspects of Sexuality and Sexual Roles) - documentary short, Janet Walczewski and Susan Gabori 1975 - executive producer
Operation G.A.T.E. - documentary short, Don Virgo 1975 - executive producer
Descent - documentary short, Giles Walker and Paul Cowan 1975 - executive producer
Earthware - documentary short, Rick Raxlen and Donald Winkler 1975 - co-producer with Rick Raxlen and Tom Daly
First Born - documentary short, Joan Henson 1975 - executive producer
The Forest Watchers - documentary short, Peter Raymont 1975 - executive producer
Hinchinbrook Diary - documentary short, Rick Raxlen 1975 - executive producer
Niagara for Sale - documentary, William Canning 1975 - executive producer
No Way They Want to Slow Down - documentary short, Giles Walker 1975 - executive producer
Operation High Test - training film, Douglas Cameron 1975 - executive producer
Alberta Girls - documentary short, Malca Gillson and Tony Ianzelo 1975 - executive producer
Arctic IV - documentary, James de Beaujeu Domville 1975 - producer
Lumsden - documentary short, Peter Raymont 1975 - executive producer
The Mad Canadian - documentary short, Robert Fortier 1976 - executive producer
The Other World - documentary short, Claudia Overing 1976 - executive producer
The Land: A New Priority - documentary short, Roger Hart 1976 - executive producer
Blackwood - documentary short, Tony Ianzelo and Andy Thomson 1976 - executive producer
A Sense of Place - documentary, René Bonnière 1976 - executive producer
The Sword of the Lord - documentary, Giles Walker 1976 - executive producer
Threads - documentary short, Donald Winkler and Anne Henderson 1976 - co-producer with Diane Beaudry and Tom Daly
Waterloo Farmers - documentary short, Italo Costa 1976 - executive producer
Wax and Wool - documentary short, Donald Winkler and Rick Raxlen 1976 - co-producer with Rick Raxlen and Tom Daly
The Whales are Waiting - documentary short, Tony Ianzelo, Andy Thomson and Strowan Robertson 1976 - executive producer
The Canadian Air Connection - training film, Douglas Cameron 1976 - executive producer
Christ is Risen - documentary short, William Canning 1976 - executive producer
Potatoes - documentary short, Robert Lang 1976 - executive producer
A Sense of Hummus - documentary short, Christopher Chapman 1976 - executive producer
We Can't Stand Still Can We? - documentary short, Kenneth McCready 1976 - executive producer
Coaches - documentary, Paul Cowan 1976 - executive producer
First Steps - documentary short, Philip Bridgeman and Alec MacLeod 1976 - executive producer
The Great Clean-Up - documentary, James Carney 1976 - executive producer
A Great White Bird - documentary, Michael McKennirey 1976 - executive producer
Log House - documentary short, Michael Rubbo and Andreas Poulsson 1976 - executive producer
Los Canadienses - documentary, Albert Kish 1976 - co-producer with Tom Daly
Have I Ever Lied to You Before? - documentary, John Spotton 1976 - executive producer
High Grass Circus - documentary, Torben Schioler and Tony Ianzelo 1976 - executive producer
Little Big Top - documentary short, Torben Schioler and Tony Ianzelo 1977 - co-executive producer with Michael McKennirey
Path of the Paddle: Solo Basic - documentary short, Bill Mason 1977 - executive producer
Path of the Paddle: Doubles Basic - documentary short, Bill Mason 1977 - executive producer
Path of the Paddle: Solo Whitewater - documentary short, Bill Mason 1977 - executive producer
Path of the Paddle: Doubles Whitewater - documentary short, Bill Mason 1977 - executive producer
Child, Part 4: Kathy and Ian: Three-Year-Olds - documentary short, Robert Humble 1977 - executive producer
River (Planet Earth) - documentary short, Peter Raymont 1977 - executive producer
You're Eating For Two - documentary short, Malca Gillson 1977 - executive producer
Forest Under Siege - documentary short, Desmond Dew 1977 - executive producer
The Biosphere - documentary, William Pettigrew 1979 - co-producer with Barrie Howells
A Pinto for the Prince - documentary short 1979 - co-director with John Spotton
Atmos - documentary short 1980 - director
Standing Alone - documentary 1982 - director
The Contour Connection - documentary short 1983 - director
Starlife - documentary short, Sidney Goldsmith 1983 - producer
Starbreaker - short film, Bruce Mackay 1984 - special effects
Transitions - documentary short, IMAX 1986 - writer and, with Tony Ianzelo, director
Emergency - short film, IMAX 1988 - writer, co-director with Tony Ianzelo
Echoes of the Sun - documentary short, IMAX, Nelson Max and Roman Kroitor 1990 - writer
Momentum - documentary short, IMAX 1992 - co-director with Tony Ianzelo
Making Momentum - documentary short 1996 - director, with Tony Ianzelo
Path of the Paddle: Quiet Water - documentary, Bill Mason 1996 - producer
Path of the Paddle: White Water - documentary, Bill Mason 1996 - producer
Louisbourg Under Siege - documentary, Albert Kish 1997 - co-cinematographer with Tony Ianzelo, Ernest McNabb and Kent Nason
Moving Pictures - documentary, 2000 - director and, with Boyce Richardson, writer

Awards
As Director, Executive Producer or Producer
Cadet Rousselle (1946)
Filmfestival del Garda, Gardone Riviera: Award of Merit, 1949
American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, 1960
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Statuette, 1961
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Certificate, Education, Art and Music, 1961The Romance of Transportation in Canada (1952)
1953 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France: Award for Best Animation, 1953
7th British Academy Film Awards, London: BAFTA Special Award, 1954
25th Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee, Best Short Subject, Cartoons, 1953Age of the Beaver (1952)
5th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Honorable Mention, Non-Theatrical, 1953Corral (1954)
Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy: First Prize, Documentary Films, 1954
Durban International Film Festival, Durban, South Africa: Second Prize/Bronze Medal, Documentary, 1954
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland: Diploma of Merit, Arts, 1954
Golden Reel International Film Festival, Film Council of America, New York: Recognition of Merit, 1955
7th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Special Mention, Non-Theatrical Short, 1955Riches of the Earth (1954)
7th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Best Film, Non-Theatrical Short, 1955
International Survey of Scientific and Didactic Films, Padua, Italy: First Award for Best Film, 1956A Thousand Million Years (1954)

Venice Film Festival, Venice: Honourable Mention, Scientific Films, 1954One Little Indian (1954)
7th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Honorable Mention, Non-Theatrical, 1955
National Committee on Films for Safety, Chicago: First Prize, Bronze Plaque, Traffic & Transportation, 1955
Golden Reel International Film Festival, Film Council of America, New York: Recognition of Merit, 1955
Kootenay Film Festival, Nelson, British Columbia: Certificate of Merit, Second Award, Artistic Achievement, 1955
Rapallo International Film Festival, Rapallo, Italy: Great Cup of the Province of Genoa, 1956
Rapallo International Film Festival, Rapallo, Italy: First Prize & Silver Medal, Abstract Films, 1956The Jolifou Inn (1955)
8th Canadian Film Awards, Stratford, Ontario: Honorable Mention, Theatrical Short,  1956
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, Best Film, Creative Arts, 1956
Kootenay Film Festival, Nelson, British Columbia: First Achievement Award, 1957
Ibero-American-Filipino Documentary Film Contest, Bilbao, Spain: Best Film of an Educational and Cultural Character, 1959
Ibero-American-Filipino Documentary Film Contest, Bilbao, Spain: Special Prize, 1959Gold (1955)
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland: Diploma of Merit, 1955
8th Canadian Film Awards, Stratford, Ontario: Gold Award, Theatrical Short, 1956City of Gold (1957)
1957 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France: First Prize, Documentary, 1957
Cork International Film Festival, Cork, Ireland: First Prize - Statuette of St. Finbarr, General Interest 1957
10th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Genie Award, Film of the Year 1958
10th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Genie Award, Best Film, Arts and Experimental, 1958
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, Best Film, General 1958
International Festival of Mountain and Exploration Films, Trento, Italy: Gold Medal 1958
Chicago Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois Chicago: Documentary Prize 1958
International Festival of Films on People and Countries, La Spezia, Italy: Gold Caravelle, 2nd prize 1958
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver: First Prize, Documentary 1958
SODRE International Festival of Documentary and Experimental Films, Montevideo, Uruguay: Honourable Mention 1958
Robert J. Flaherty Film Awards, City College Institute of Film Techniques: Honourable Mention, 1958
Ibero-American-Filipino Documentary Film Contest, Bilbao, Spain: First Prize, 1959
American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, History & Biography, 1959
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Award, First Prize 1960
Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy: Gold Medal, 1960
Festival of Experimental and Documentary Films, Santiago, Chile: Honourable Mention 1960
30th Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee, Short Subject, Live Action, 1958City Out of Time (1959)
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver: Special Diploma, Fine Arts, 1960A is for Architecture (1960)
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, First Prize, 1960
12th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Genie Award for Best Film, General Information, 1960
Ibero-American-Filipino Documentary Film Contest, Bilbao, Spain: Special CIDALC Prize, Silver Medal, 1960
International Exhibition of Electronics, Nuclear Energy, Radio, Television and Cinema, Trieste, Italy: Silver Cup, 1960
Rapallo International Film Festival, Rapallo, Italy: Third Prize - Silver Cup and Medal, 1960
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Certificate of Merit, 1960
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Award, First Prize, 1962Circle of the Sun (1960)
14th Canadian Film Awards: Genie Award for Best Film, General Information, 1962
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, First Prize, 1962
Festival of Tourist and Folklore Films, Brussels: Best Film on Folklore, 1962
La Plata International Children's Film Festival, La Plata, Argentina: Silver Oak Leaf, First Prize, Documentary, 1962
Electronic, Nuclear and Teleradio Cinematographic Review, Rome: First Prize, Tourist Films, 1962
SODRE International Festival of Documentary and Experimental Films, Montevideo, Uruguay: Honorable Mention, 1962
Festival dei Popoli/International Film Festival on Social Documentary, Florence, Italy: Honorable Mention, 1962
Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia: Best Film, 1963
International Tourism Film Festival, Tarbes, France: Diploma of Honour and Trophy, 1967Universe (1960)
Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France: Jury Prize for Exceptional Animation Quality, 1960
Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France: Technical Mention of the Commission Supérieure Technique du Cinéma Français, 1960
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, Best Film of the Festival, 1960
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver: First Prize, Documentary, 1960
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver: Diploma, Scientific Films, 1960
International Festival of Scientific and Technical Films, Belgrade, Serbia: Diploma of Honour, 1960
Stratford Film Festival, Stratford, Ontario: Special Commendation, 1960
Cork International Film Festival, Cork, Ireland: First Prize,  Diploma of Merit, 1960
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland: Diploma of Merit, Science, 1960
14th British Academy Film Awards, London: BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, 1961
13th Canadian Film Awards: Genie Award for Film of the Year, 1961
13th Canadian Film Awards: Genie Award for Best Theatrical Short, 1961
Philadelphia International Festival of Short Films, Philadelphia: Award for Exceptional Merit, 1961
Salerno Film Festival, Salerno, Italy: First Prize – Documentary, 1961
American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Science and Mathematics, 1961
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Award, Information/Education, 1961
Rapallo International Film Festival, Rapallo, Italy: Cup of the Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, 1961
Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Mar del Plata, Argentina: Grand Prize, 1962
International Festival of Educational Films, Mar del Plata, Argentina: Best Documentary, 1962
La Plata International Children's Festival, La Plata, Argentina: Silver Oak Leaf, First Prize, Scientific Films, 1962
Scientific Film Festival, Caracas, Venezuela: Award of Merit, 1963
Scholastic Teacher Magazine Annual Film Awards: Award of Merit, 1963
International Educational Film Festival, Tehran: Golden Delfan, First Prize, Scientific Films, 1964
Educational Film Library Association of America, New York: Nomination, 10 Best Films of the Decade List, 1968
33rd Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee: Best Documentary Short Subject, 1961Hors-d'oeuvre (1960)
13th Canadian Film Awards: Award of Merit, Sales and Promotion, 1961Do You Know the Milky Way? (1961)
International Days of Short Films, Tours, France: Special Jury Prize, 1961
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Award, Experimental, 1962Very Nice, Very Nice (1961)
34th Academy Awards – Nominee, Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, 1962The Days of Whiskey Gap (1961)
Canadian Historical Association, Toronto: Certificate of Merit "for outstanding contribution to local history in Canada", 1962
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver: Honorable Mention, Sociology, 1962Pot-pourri (1962)
14th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Award of Merit - Filmed Commercials (Public Service), 1962My Financial Career (1962)
Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: First Prize, Animated Film, 1962
American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Literature in Films, 1964
36th Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee, Best Short Subject, Cartoons, 196321-87 (1963)
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan: First Prize, 1964
Palo Alto Filmmakers’ Festival, Palo Alto: Second Prize, 1964
Midwest Film Festival, University of Chicago, Chicago: Most Popular Film, 1964I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (1963)
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago: Certificate of Merit – Cartoons, 1965
Zlín Film Festival/International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia: Diploma of Merit, 1965
Santa Barbara Children's Film Festival, Santa Barbara, California: Second Satellite Award, Short Entertainment, 1966Free Fall (1964)
Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Award of Merit, 1964
Montreal International Film Festival, Montreal: Honorable Mention, Shorts, 1964The Hutterites (1964)
Montreal International Film Festival, Montreal: First Prize, Shorts, 1964
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Award, First Prize, Religion, 1964
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, First Prize, Human Relations, 1964
Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne: Honorable Mention, 1964
American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Doctrinal and Denominational Topics, 1965
Landers Associates Awards, Los Angeles: Award of Merit, 1965
Festival dei Popoli/International Film Festival on Social Documentary, Florence, Italy: Second Prize, 1965The Children of Fogo Island (1967)
Conference on Children, Washington, DC: Certificate of Merit, 1970The Sea (1971)

23rd Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Genie Award for Best Documentary Under 30 minutes, 1971
International Film Festival of Man, Air, Water, Versailles: First Prize of the Festival, 1972
International Review of Maritime Documentary / International Film, TV Film and Documentary Film Market (MIFED), Milan: Jury Award - Gold Medal of the President of the Republic, 1972
Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne: Diploma of Merit, 1972
International Week of Nautical Cinema, Palma: Gold Anchovy, 1974
International Documentary Film Days on the Environment, Ouistreham-Riva-Bella: Gold Medal and Grand Prize of the President of the Republic, 1974Here is Canada (1972)
Festival of Tourist and Folklore Films, Brussels: Award of the Ministry of National Education, 1973
Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: First Prize, Special Jury Mention, 1973The Question of TV Violence (1972)
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Award, Best Documentary, 1973Coming Home (1973)
25th Canadian Film Awards, Montreal: Genie Award for Best Theatrical Documentary, 1973Sub-Igloo (1973)
International Oceanographic Film Festival, Bordeaux, France: First Prize, 1976The Man Who Can't Stop (1973)
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago: Certificate of Merit, 1974Child, Part 1: Jamie, Ethan and Marlon: The First Two Months (1973)
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Award, Bronze Plaque, Education, 1976Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974)
28th British Academy Film Awards, London: BAFTA Award for Best Documentary (Robert Flaherty Award), 1975
26th Canadian Film Awards, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON: Genie Award for Best Documentary, 1975
Melbourne Film Festival: Silver Boomerang, Best Film Made for TV, 1975Sananguagat: Inuit Masterworks (1974)
Festival international du film sur l'art, Paris: Grand Prize, 1975
International Tourism Film Festival, Tarbes, France: Award of Merit, 1975Another Side of the Forest (1974)
International Green Film Week, Berlin, Germany: Silver Ear of Corn Award, Natural Environment, 1976Bate's Car: Sweet as a Nut (1974)
Biofest, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia: Award of Merit, 1976In Praise of Hands (1974)
International Craft Film Festival, New York: Award of Merit, 1976
International Festival of Television Programs of Folk Crafts (RADUGA), Moscow: Diploma for Impressive Transmission of Deep Thought of Unity of the Sources of Folk Creativity, 1979In Search of the Bowhead Whale (1974)
American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Environment, Nature and Wildlife, 1975
St. Thomas International Film Festival,  St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands: Silver Venus Medallion for Best Film, TV Documentary, 1975
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Award, 1976
International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, Montana: Highest Merit, Non-Invited Films, 1978
Black Orca Film Festival, Seattle: Best Film, Exploration & Discovery, 1978
International Festival of Films on the Arctic, Dieppe, France: Jules Verne Award for Best Exploration Film, 1983Waiting for Fidel (1974)
American Film and Video Festival, New York: Red Ribbon, World Concerns, 1976King of the Hill (1974)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany: Main Prize by the International Jury for Cinema and Television Films, 1975Arctic IV (1975)
International Festival of Mountain and Exploration Films, Trento, Italy: Special Mention, 1977Jack Rabbit (1975)
International Ski Film Festival, New York: Award of Merit, 1976Descent (1975)
Banff Mountain Film Festival, Banff, Alberta: Best Film of the Festival, 1977
Banff Mountain Film Festival, Banff, Alberta: Best Film Produced by a Canadian, 1977The Lady and the Owl (1975)
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Bronze Plaque, 1977Musicanada (1975)
Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Special Jury Award, 1976Blackwood (1976)
Festival international du film sur l'art, Paris: Grand Prize for the Quality of the Image, 1977
Festival of Tourist and Folklore Films, Brussels: Prize of the Principality of Monaco for the Best Film Evocating the Past of a Region by the Means of Art, 1977
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, Best Short Film, 1977
49th Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee, Best Documentary Short Subject, 1977A Great White Bird (1976)
Salerno Film Festival, Salerno, Italy: First Prize – Documentary, 1979High Grass Circus (1976)
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, Best Film of the Festival, 1977
Film Advisory Board, Los Angeles: Award of Excellence, 1978
50th Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee: Best Documentary Feature, 1978The Land: A New Priority (1976)
International Contest of Agrarian Cinema, Zaragoza, Spain: EXCMA Trophy for Best Film, 1978Log House (1976)
Festival of Tourist and Folklore Films, Brussels: Prize of the Belgian National Centre of Films for Children, 1977
American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Environmental Issues, 1980Waterloo Farmers (1976)
Festival of Agricultural Films & Rural Themes, Santarém, Portugal: Bronze Bunch, Third Prize, 1976Los Canadienses (1976)
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim: Special Mention from the Fédération internationale de la presse cinématographique, 1976
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim: Special Prize for the Best Film, 1976
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago: Silver Hugo Award, 1977
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, Best Documentary, 1977
Melbourne Film Festival: TV Award for Best Film Made for TV, 1977
American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, International History and Culture, 1977
30th British Academy Film Awards, London: BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, 1977Path of the Paddle: Doubles Whitewater (1977)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany: Grand Prix of the Cultural Ministry of Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1977
Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Special Jury Award for Outstanding Achievement - Film as Communication, 1977
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Bronze Plaque, Education, 1978
31st British Academy Film Awards, London:  BAFTA award for Best Specialised Film, 1978
C.I.D.A.L.C. International Festival of Sports Films, Rennes, France: René Barthélemy Award 1982
International Film Festival for River Descent, Vénissieux, France: Best Script (to Bill Mason), 1983Standing Alone (1982)
HEMISFILM, San Antonio TX: Bronze Medallion for Best Long Documentary, 1983
International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Vancouver: Certificate of Merit, 1983Starlife (1983)
Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Honorable Mention, 1985Momentum (1992)
International Audiovisual Festival (FIAV), Seville, Spain: Award for Technical Quality of the Image, 1992Moving Pictures (2000)
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Bronze Plaque, Arts
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Circle of the Sun
Circle of the Sun is a 1960 short documentary film on Kainai Nation, or Blood Tribe, of Southern Alberta, which captured their Sun Dance ritual on film for the first time. Tribal leaders, who worried the traditional ceremony might be dying out,  had permitted filming as a visual record.The film was directed by Colin Low, who was from the area. Low's father had been a foreman of the Cochrane Church Ranch in the area, southern Alberta and had known many Blood Tribe people since childhood. Colin Low had first witnessed the Sun Dance in 1953, the year he shot Corral. Footage of the Sun Dance was shot in 1956 and 1957, with the film completed in 1959. The film also included modern aspects of Blood Tribe life by shooting on an oil well on the reserve.

Pete Standing Alone
Circle of the Sun features narration from Pete Standing Alone, a young member of the Blood Tribe who worked on oil rigs. When Low had finished editing in 1959, he played a recorded conversation with Standing Alone for Stanley Jackson. Jackson was so impressed that Standing Alone was flown to the NFB's headquarters in Montreal to work on the narration. Standing Alone's participation in the film ended up being quite extensive, at a time when genuine Aboriginal voices were not often heard on the screen.In 1982, Low directed the NFB documentary Standing Alone, which was broadcast nationally on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The hour-long film follows 25 years in Standing Alone's life, beginning with his youth as an oil-rig roughneck, rodeo rider and cowboy, and explores his concerns about preserving his tribe's spiritual heritage in the industrial age.On National Aboriginal Day in 2011, the NFB released the Pete Standing Alone trilogy, which includes Circle of the Sun, Standing Alone and a 2010 film, Round Up. The trilogy documents 50 years in the life of the Kainai Nation, as well as Standing Alone's personal development from a youth to a tribal elder.

Awards
14th Canadian Film Awards: Genie Award for Best Film, General Information, 1962
Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Golden Sheaf Award, First Prize, 1962
Festival of Tourist and Folklore Films, Brussels: Best Film on Folklore, 1962
La Plata International Children's Film Festival, La Plata, Argentina: Silver Oak Leaf, First Prize, Documentary, 1962
Electronic, Nuclear and Teleradio Cinematographic Review, Rome: First Prize, Tourist Films, 1962
SODRE International Festival of Documentary and Experimental Films, Montevideo, Uruguay: Honorable Mention, 1962
Festival dei Popoli/International Film Festival on Social Documentary, Florence, Italy: Honorable Mention, 1962
Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia: Best Film, 1963
International Tourism Film Festival, Tarbes, France: Diploma of Honour and Trophy, 1967
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Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein-Cohen (born March 3, 1981) is the executive director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. She was appointed by the board of directors  in November 2019.  Previously she was the CEO of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.

Biography
Dana Blankstein was born in Switzerland in 1981 to theatre director Dedi Baron and Professor Alexander Blankstein. She moved to Israel in 1983 and grew up in Tel Aviv.
Blankstein graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem in 2008 with high honors. During her studies she worked as a personal assistant to directors Savi Gabizon on his film Nina's Tragedies and to Renen Schorr on his film The Loners.  She also directed and shot 'the making of' film on Gavison's film Lost and Found. Her debut film Camping competed at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2007.

Film and academic career
After her studies, Dana founded and directed the film and television department at the Kfar Saba municipality. The department encouraged and promoted productions filmed in the city of Kfar Saba, as well as the established cultural projects, and educational community activities.
Blankstein directed the mini-series "Tel Aviviot" (2012). From 2016-2019 was the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
In November 2019 Dana Blankstein Cohen was appointed the new director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School where she also oversees the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. In 2022, she spearheaded the launch of the new Series Lab and the film preparatory program for Arabic speakers in east Jerusalem.

Filmography
Tel Aviviot (mini-series; director, 2012)
Growing Pains (graduation film, Sam Spiegel; director and screenwriter, 2008)
Camping (debut film, Sam Spiegel; director and screenwriter, 2006)
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Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas (born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad. From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
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Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to?
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get To? (French: Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie?) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy war film directed by Robert Lamoureux. The film portrays the adventures of a French Army squad lost somewhere on the front in May 1940 during the Battle of France.

Plot
During the Battle of France, while German forces are spreading across the country, the 7th Transmission Company suffers an air raid near the Machecoul woods, but survive and hide in the woods. Captain Dumont, the company commander, sends Louis Chaudard, Pithiviers and Tassin to scout the area. After burying the radio cable beneath a sandy road, the squad crosses the field, climbs a nearby hill, and takes position within a cemetery. One man cut down the wrong tree for camouflage, pulling up the radio cable and revealing it to the passing German infantry. The Germans cut the cable, surround the woods, and order a puzzled 7th Company to surrender. The squad tries to contact the company, but then witness their capture and run away.
Commanded by Staff Sergeant Chaudard, the unit stops in a wood for the night. Pithiviers is content to slow down and wait for the end of the campaign. The next day, he goes for a swim in the lake, in sight of possible German fighters. When Chaudard and Tassin wake up, they leave the camp without their weapons to look for Pithiviers. Tassin finds him and gives an angry warning, but Pithiviers convinces Tassin to join him in the lake. Chaudard orders them to get out, but distracted by a rabbit, falls into the lake. While Chaudard teaches his men how to swim, two German fighter planes appear, forcing them out of the water. After shooting down one of the German planes, a French pilot, Lieutenant Duvauchel, makes an emergency landing and escapes before his plane explodes. PFC Pithiviers, seeing the bad shape of one of his shoes, destroys what is left of his shoe sole. Tassin is sent on patrol to get food and a new pair of shoes for Pithiviers. Tassin arrives in a farm, but only finds a dog, so he returns and Chaudard goes to the farm after nightfall. The farmer returns with her daughter-in-law and Lt Duvauchel, and she welcomes Chaudard. Duvauchel, who is hiding behind the door, comes out upon hearing the news and decides to meet Chaudard's men.
When Chaudard and Duvauchel return to the camp, Tassin and Pithiviers are roasting a rabbit they caught. Duvauchel realizes that Chaudard has been lying and takes command.
The following day, the men leave the wood in early morning and capture a German armored tow truck after killing its two drivers. They originally planned to abandon the truck and the two dead Germans in the woods, but instead realized that the truck is the best way to disguise themselves and free the 7th Company. They put on the Germans' uniforms, recover another soldier of the 7th Company, who succeeded in escaping, and obtain resources from a collaborator who mistook them for Germans.
On their way, they encounter a National Gendarmerie patrol, who appear to be a 5th column. The patrol injures the newest member of their group, a young soldier, and then are killed by Tassin. In revenge, they destroy a German tank using the tow truck's cannon gun.
They planned to go to Paris but are misguided by their own colonel, but find the 7th Company with guards who are bringing them to Germany. Using their cover, they make the guards run in front of the truck, allowing the company to get away. When Captain Dumont joins his Chaudard, Tassin, and Pithiviers in the truck, who salute the German commander with a great smile.

Casting
Jean Lefebvre : PFC Pithiviers
Pierre Mondy : Staff Sergent Paul Chaudard
Aldo Maccione: PFC Tassin
Robert Lamoureux: Colonel Blanchet
Erik Colin: Lieutenant Duvauchel
Pierre Tornade: Captain Dumont
Alain Doutey: Carlier
Robert Dalban : The peasant
Jacques Marin: The collaborationist
Robert Rollis: A French soldier

Production
The film's success spawned two sequels:– 1975 : On a retrouvé la septième compagnie (The Seventh Company Has Been Found) by Robert Lamoureux;
– 1977 : La Septième Compagnie au clair de lune (The Seventh Company Outdoors)) by Robert Lamoureux.The story is set in Machecoul woods, but it was actually filmed near Cerny and La Ferté-Alais, as well as Jouars-Pontchartrain and Rochefort-en-Yvelines. The famous grocery scene was filmed in Bazoches-Sur-Guyonne.
Robert Lamoureux based this film on his own personal experiences in June 1940 during the war.
The final scene with the parachute is based on a true story. The 58 Free French paratroopers were parachuted into Brittany in groups of three, on the night of 7 June 1944 to neutralize the rail network of Normandy Landings in Brittany, two days before.

Box office
The movie received a great success in France reaching the third best selling movie in 1974.

Notes
External links
Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? at IMDb
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Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Select credits
Waiting for Lucas (1973) (short)
Stone (1974) (editor only)
The Chain Reaction (1980)
Whose Baby? (1986) (mini-series)
Minnamurra (1989)
Bodysurfer (1989) (mini-series)
Ring of Scorpio (1990) (mini-series)
Crimebroker (1993)
Inferno (1998) (TV movie)
Miss Lettie and Me (2002) (TV movie)
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) (documentary)
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013)
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Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy (born 5 November 1961) is an Irish-born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.  He was the director of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem for 17 months, resigning December 31, 2020. He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019. He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) from 1997 to 2004.

Career
Brian Kennedy currently lives and works in the United States after leaving Australia in 2005 to direct the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In October 2010 he became the ninth Director of the Toledo Museum of Art. On 1 July 2019, he succeeded Dan Monroe as the executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum.

Early life and career in Ireland
Kennedy was born in Dublin and attended Clonkeen College. He received B.A. (1982), M.A. (1985) and PhD (1989) degrees from University College-Dublin, where he studied both art history and history.
He worked in the Irish Department of Education (1982), the European Commission, Brussels (1983), and in Ireland at the Chester Beatty Library (1983–85), Government Publications Office (1985–86), and Department of Finance (1986–89). He married Mary Fiona Carlin in 1988.He was Assistant Director at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin from 1989 to 1997. He was Chair of the Irish Association of Art Historians from 1996 to 1997, and of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors from 2001 to 2003. In September 1997 he became Director of the National Gallery of Australia.

National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
Kennedy expanded the traveling exhibitions and loans program throughout Australia, arranged for several major shows of Australian art abroad, increased the number of exhibitions at the museum itself and oversaw the development of an extensive multi-media site.  Although he oversaw several years of the museum's highest ever annual visitation, he discontinued the emphasis of his predecessor, Betty Churcher, on showing "blockbuster" exhibitions.
During his directorship, the NGA gained government support for improving the building and significant private donations and corporate sponsorship. However, the initial design for the building proved controversial generating a public dispute with the original architect on moral rights grounds.  As a result, the project was not delivered during Dr Kennedy's tenure, with a significantly altered design completed some years later.  Private funding supported two acquisitions of British art, including David Hockney's A Bigger Grand Canyon in 1999, and Lucian Freud's After Cézanne in 2001. Kennedy built on the established collections at the museum by acquiring the Holmgren-Spertus collection of Indonesian textiles; the Kenneth Tyler collection of editioned prints, screens, multiples and unique proofs; and the Australian Print Workshop Archive. He was also notable for campaigning for the construction of a new "front" entrance to the Gallery, facing King Edward Terrace, which was completed in 2010 (see reference to the building project above).
Kennedy's cancellation of the "Sensation exhibition" (scheduled at the NGA from 2 June 2000 to 13 August 2000) was controversial, and seen by some as censorship. He claimed that the decision was due to the exhibition being "too close to the market" implying that a national cultural institution cannot exhibit the private collection of a speculative art investor. However, there were other exhibitions at the NGA during his tenure, which could have raised similar concerns. The exhibition featured the privately owned Young British Artists works belonging to Charles Saatchi and attracted large attendances in London and Brooklyn. Its most controversial work was Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, a painting which used elephant dung and was accused of being blasphemous. The then-mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, campaigned against the exhibition, claiming it was "Catholic-bashing" and an "aggressive, vicious, disgusting attack on religion." In November 1999, Kennedy cancelled the exhibition and stated that the events in New York had "obscured discussion of the artistic merit of the works of art". He has said that it "was the toughest decision of my professional life, so far."Kennedy was also repeatedly questioned on his management of a range of issues during the Australian Government's Senate Estimates process - particularly on the NGA's occupational health and safety record and concerns about the NGA's twenty-year-old air-conditioning system. The air-conditioning was finally renovated in 2003. Kennedy announced in 2002 that he would not seek extension of his contract beyond 2004, accepting a seven-year term as had his two predecessors.He became a joint Irish-Australian citizen in 2003.

Toledo Museum of Art
The Toledo Museum of Art is known for its exceptional collections of European and American paintings and sculpture, glass, antiquities, artist books, Japanese prints and netsuke. The museum offers free admission and is recognized for its historical leadership in the field of art education.  During his tenure, Kennedy has focused the museum's art education efforts on visual literacy, which he defines as "learning to read, understand and write visual language."   Initiatives have included baby and toddler tours, specialized training for all staff, docents, volunteers and the launch of a website, www.vislit.org. In November 2014, the museum hosted the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) conference, the first Museum to do so. Kennedy has been a frequent speaker on the topic, including 2010 and 2013 TEDx talks on visual and sensory literacy.
Kennedy has expressed an interest in expanding the museum's collection of contemporary art and art by indigenous peoples. Works by Frank Stella, Sean Scully, Jaume Plensa, Ravinder Reddy and Mary Sibande have been acquired.  In addition, the museum has made major acquisitions of Old Master paintings by Frans Hals and Luca Giordano.During his tenure the Toledo Museum of Art has announced the return of several objects from its collection due to claims the objects were stolen and/or illegally exported prior being sold to the museum.  In 2011 a Meissen sweetmeat stand was returned to Germany followed by an Etruscan Kalpis or water jug to Italy (2013), an Indian sculpture of Ganesha (2014) and an astrological compendium to Germany in 2015.

Hood Museum of Art
Kennedy became Director of the Hood Museum of Art in July 2005. During his tenure, he implemented a series of large and small-scale exhibitions and oversaw the production of more than 20 publications to bring greater public attention to the museum's remarkable collections of the arts of America, Europe, Africa, Papua New Guinea and the Polar regions. At 70,000 objects, the Hood has one of the largest collections on any American college of university campus. The exhibition, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, toured several US venues. Kennedy increased campus curricular use of works of art, with thousands of objects pulled from storage for classes annually. Numerous acquisitions were made with the museum's generous endowments, and he curated several exhibitions: including Wenda Gu: Forest of Stone Steles: Retranslation and Rewriting Tang Dynasty Poetry, Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, and Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons.

Publications
Kennedy has written or edited a number of books on art, including:

Alfred Chester Beatty and Ireland 1950-1968: A study in cultural politics, Glendale Press (1988), ISBN 978-0-907606-49-9
Dreams and responsibilities: The state and arts in independent Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland (1990), ISBN 978-0-906627-32-7
Jack B Yeats: Jack Butler Yeats, 1871-1957 (Lives of Irish Artists), Unipub (October 1991), ISBN 978-0-948524-24-0
The Anatomy Lesson: Art and Medicine (with Davis Coakley), National Gallery of Ireland (January 1992), ISBN 978-0-903162-65-4
Ireland: Art into History (with Raymond Gillespie), Roberts Rinehart Publishers (1994), ISBN 978-1-57098-005-3
Irish Painting, Roberts Rinehart Publishers (November 1997),  ISBN 978-1-86059-059-7
Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, Hood Museum of Art (October 2008), ISBN 978-0-944722-34-3
Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons, 1965-1966, Hood Museum of Art (October 2010), ISBN 978-0-944722-39-8

Honors and achievements
Kennedy was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in 2001 for service to Australian Society and its art. He is a trustee and treasurer of the Association of Art Museum Directors, a peer reviewer for the American Association of Museums and a member of the International Association of Art Critics. In 2013 he was appointed inaugural eminent professor at the University of Toledo and received an honorary doctorate from Lourdes University. Most recently, Kennedy received the 2014 Northwest Region, Ohio Art Education Association award for distinguished educator for art education.

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Practical Jokers
Practical Jokers is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by George Sidney.  It was the 174th Our Gang short (175th episode, 86th talking short, 87th talking episode, and sixth MGM produced episode) that was released.

Plot
Hoping to get even for all the practical jokes perpetrated by neighborhood troublemaker Butch, the Gang plans to sabotage Butch's birthday party. The weapon of choice is a firecracker, which is substituted for one of the birthday candles. Unfortunately, the kids in general and Alfalfa in particular are unable to escape from the party before the big (and tasty) explosion.

Cast
The Gang
Darla Hood as Darla
Eugene Lee as Porky
George McFarland as Spanky
Carl Switzer as Alfalfa
Billie Thomas as Buckwheat

Additional cast
Tommy Bond as Butch
Gary Jasgur as Gary
Sidney Kibrick as Woim
Leonard Landy as Leonard
Marie Blake as Butch's mother
Grace Bohanon as Party extra
Joe Levine as Party extra

See also
Our Gang filmography
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Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore (1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English-born first-class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.

Life and family
Henry Moore was born in Cranbrook, Kent, in 1849. He was the son of the Reverend Edward Moore and Lady Harriet Janet Sarah Montagu-Scott, who was one of the daughters of the 4th Duke of Buccleuch. One of his brothers, Arthur, became an admiral and was knighted. Their great
grandfather was John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1783 to 1805. One of their sisters was a maid of honour to Queen Victoria.Moore went to New Zealand in the 1870s and lived in Geraldine and Christchurch. He married Henrietta Lysaght of Hāwera in November 1879, and they had one son. In May 1884 she died a few days after giving birth to a daughter, who also died.In 1886 Moore became a Justice of the Peace in Geraldine. In 1897 he married Alice Fish of Geraldine. They moved to England four years before his death in 1916.

Cricket career
Moore was a right-handed middle-order batsman. In consecutive seasons, 1876–77 and 1877–78, playing for Canterbury, he made the highest score in the short New Zealand first-class season: 76 and 75 respectively. His 76 came in his first match for Canterbury, against Otago. He went to the wicket early on the first day with the score at 7 for 2 and put on 99 for the third wicket with Charles Corfe before he was out with the score at 106 for 3 after a "very fine exhibition of free hitting, combined with good defence". Canterbury were all out for 133, but went on to win the match. His 75 came in the next season's match against Otago, when he took the score from 22 for 2 to 136 for 6. The New Zealand cricket historian Tom Reese said, "Right from the beginning he smote the bowling hip and thigh, going out of his ground to indulge in some forceful driving." Canterbury won again.Moore led the batting averages in the Canterbury Cricket Association in 1877–78 with 379 runs at an average of 34.4. Also in 1877–78, he was a member of the Canterbury team that inflicted the only defeat on the touring Australians. In 1896–97, at the age of 47, he top-scored in each innings for a South Canterbury XVIII against the touring Queensland cricket team.
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John McMahon (Surrey and Somerset cricketer)
John William Joseph McMahon (28 December 1917 – 8 May 2001) was an Australian-born first-class cricketer who played for Surrey and Somerset County Cricket Clubs in England from 1947 to 1957.

Surrey cricketer
McMahon was an orthodox left-arm spin bowler with much variation in speed and flight who was spotted by Surrey playing in club cricket in North London and brought on to the county's staff for the 1947 season at the age of 29. In the first innings of his first match, against Lancashire at The Oval, he took five wickets for 81 runs.In his first full season, 1948, he was Surrey's leading wicket-taker and in the last home game of the season he was awarded his county cap – he celebrated by taking eight Northamptonshire wickets for 46 runs at The Oval, six of them coming in the space of 6.3 overs for seven runs. This would remain the best bowling performance of his first-class career, not surpassed, but he did equal it seven years later. In the following game, the last away match of the season, he took 10 Hampshire wickets for 150 runs in the match at Bournemouth. In the 1948 season as a whole, he took 91 wickets at an average of 28.07. As a tail-end left-handed batsman, he managed just 93 runs in the season at an average of 4.22.The emergence of Tony Lock as a slow left-arm bowler in 1949 brought a stuttering end of McMahon's Surrey career. Though he played in 12 first-class matches in the 1949 season, McMahon took only 19 wickets; a similar number of matches in 1950 brought 34 wickets. In 1951, he played just seven times and in 1952 only three times. In 1953, Lock split the first finger of his left hand, and played in only 11 of Surrey's County Championship matches; McMahon played as his deputy in 14 Championship matches, though a measure of their comparative merits was that Lock's 11 games produced 67 wickets at 12.38 runs apiece, while McMahon's 14 games brought him 45 wickets at the, for him, low average of 21.53. At the end of the 1953 season, McMahon was allowed to leave Surrey to join Somerset, then languishing at the foot of the County Championship and recruiting widely from other counties and other countries.

Somerset cricketer
Somerset's slow bowling in 1954 was in the hands of leg-spinner Johnny Lawrence, with support from the off-spin of Jim Hilton while promising off-spinner Brian Langford was on national service. McMahon filled a vacancy for a left-arm orthodox spinner that had been there since the retirement of Horace Hazell at the end of the 1952 season; Hazell's apparent successor, Roy Smith, had failed to realise his promise as a bowler in 1953, though his batting had advanced significantly.
McMahon instantly became a first-team regular and played in almost every match during his four years with the county, not missing a single Championship game until he was controversially dropped from the side in August 1957, after which he did not play in the Championship again.In the 1954 season, McMahon, alongside fellow newcomer Hilton, was something of a disappointment, according to Wisden: "The new spin bowlers, McMahon and Hilton, did not attain to the best standards of their craft in a wet summer, yet, like the rest of the attack, they would have fared better with reasonable support in the field and from their own batsmen," it said. McMahon took 85 wickets at an average of 27.47 (Hilton took only 42 at a higher average). His best match was against Essex at Weston-super-Mare where he took six for 96 in the first innings and five for 45 in the second to finish with match figures of 11 for 141, which were the best of his career. He was awarded his county cap in the 1954 season, but Somerset remained at the bottom of the table.
The figures for the 1955 were similar: McMahon this time took 75 wickets at 28.77 apiece. There was a small improvement in his batting and the arrival of Bryan Lobb elevated McMahon to No 10 in the batting order for most of the season, and he responded with 262 runs and an average of 9.03. This included his highest-ever score, 24, made in the match against Sussex at Frome. A week later in Somerset's next match, he equalled his best-ever bowling performance, taking eight Kent wickets for 46 runs in the first innings of a match at Yeovil through what Wisden called "clever variation of flight and spin". These matches brought two victories for Somerset, but there were only two others in the 1955 season and the side finished at the bottom of the Championship for the fourth season running.At the end of the 1955 season, Lawrence retired and McMahon became Somerset's senior spin bowler for the 1956 season, with Langford returning from National Service as the main support. McMahon responded with his most successful season so far, taking 103 wickets at an average of 25.57, the only season in his career in which he exceeded 100 wickets. The bowling average improved still further in 1957 to 23.10 when McMahon took 86 wickets. But his season came to an abrupt end in mid-August 1957 when, after 108 consecutive Championship matches, he was dropped from the first team during the Weston-super-Mare festival. Though he played some games for the second eleven later in August, he regained his place in the first team for only a single end-of-season friendly match, and he was told that his services were not required for the future, a decision, said Wisden, that "proved highly controversial".

Sacked by Somerset
The reason behind McMahon's sacking did not become public knowledge for many years. In its obituary of him in 2002, McMahon was described by Wisden as "a man who embraced the antipodean virtues of candour and conviviality". It went on: "Legend tells of a night at the Flying Horse Inn in Nottingham when he beheaded the gladioli with an ornamental sword, crying: 'When Mac drinks, everybody drinks!'" The obituary recounts a further escapade in second eleven match at Midsomer Norton where a curfew imposed on the team was circumvented by "a POW-type loop" organised by McMahon, "with his team-mates escaping through a ground-storey window and then presenting themselves again". As the only Somerset second eleven match that McMahon played in at Midsomer Norton was right at the end of the 1957 season, this may have been the final straw. But in any case there had been "an embarrassing episode at Swansea's Grand Hotel" earlier in the season, also involving Jim Hilton, who was also dismissed at the end of the season. Team-mates and club members petitioned for McMahon to be reinstated, but the county club was not to be moved.
After a period in Lancashire League cricket with Milnrow Cricket Club, McMahon moved back to London where he did office work, later contributing some articles to cricket magazines.

== Notes and references ==
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Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.

Life and career
Lobban played little cricket in Jamaica. He went to England at the end of World War II as a member of the Royal Air Force, and settled in Kidderminster in Worcestershire in 1947, where he worked as a civilian lorry driver for the RAF. He began playing for Kidderminster Cricket Club in the Birmingham League, and at the start of the 1952 season, opening the bowling for the club's senior team, he had figures of 7 for 9 and 7 for 37.Worcestershire invited him to play for them, and he made his first-class debut against Sussex in July 1952. He took five wickets in the match (his maiden victim being Ken Suttle) and then held on for 4 not out with Peter Richardson (20 not out) to add the 12 runs needed for a one-wicket victory after his county had collapsed from 192 for 2 to 238 for 9. A week later he claimed four wickets against Warwickshire, then a few days later still he managed 6 for 52 (five of his victims bowled) in what was otherwise a disastrous innings defeat to Derbyshire. In the last match of the season he took a career-best 6 for 51 against Glamorgan; he and Reg Perks (4 for 59) bowled unchanged throughout the first innings. Worcestershire won the game and Lobban finished the season with 23 wickets at 23.69.He took 23 wickets again in 1953, but at a considerably worse average of 34.43, and had only two really successful games: against Oxford University in June, when he took 5 for 70, and then against Sussex in July. On this occasion Lobban claimed eight wickets, his most in a match, including 6 for 103 in the first innings. He also made his highest score with the bat, 18, but Sussex won by five wickets.In 1954 Lobban made only two first-class appearances, and managed only the single wicket of Gloucestershire tail-ender Bomber Wells. In his final game, against Warwickshire at Dudley, his nine first-innings overs cost 51. He bowled just two overs in the second innings as Warwickshire completed an easy ten-wicket win. Lobban played one more Second XI game, against Glamorgan II at Cardiff Arms Park; in this he picked up five wickets.
He was also a professional boxer and played rugby union for Kidderminster.He later moved to Canada, where he worked as a teacher in Burnaby, British Columbia. He and his wife Celia had a son and two daughters.
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Sepideh Farsi
Sepideh Farsi (Persian: سپیده فارسی; born 1965) is an Iranian director.

Early years
Farsi left Iran in 1984 and went to Paris to study mathematics.  However, eventually she was drawn to the visual arts and initially experimented in photography before making her first short films. A main theme of her works is identity. She still visits Tehran each year.

Awards/Recognition
Farsi was a Member of the Jury of the Locarno International Film Festival in Best First Feature in 2009. She won the FIPRESCI Prize (2002), Cinéma du Réel and Traces de Vie prize (2001) for "Homi D. Sethna, filmmaker" and Best documentary prize in Festival dei Popoli (2007) for "HARAT".

Recent News
One of her latest films is called Tehran Bedoune Mojavez (Tehran Without Permission).  The 83-minute documentary shows life in Iran's crowded capital city of Tehran, facing international sanctions over its nuclear ambitions and experiencing civil unrest.  It was shot entirely with a Nokia camera phone because of the government restrictions over shooting a film.  The film shows various aspects of city life including following women at the hairdressers talking of the latest fads, young men speaking of drugs, prostitution and other societal problems, and the Iranian rapper “Hichkas”.  The  dialogue is in Persian with English and Arabic subtitles. In December 2009, Tehran Without Permission was shown at the Dubai International Film Festival.

Filmography
Red Rose (2014)
Cloudy Greece (2013)
Zire Âb / The house under the water (2010)
Tehran bedoune mojavez / Tehran without permission (2009)
If it were Icarus (2008)
Harat (2007)
Negah / The Gaze (2006)
Khab-e khak / Dreams of Dust (2003)
Safar-e Maryam / The journey of Maryam (2002)
Mardan-e Atash / Men of Fire (2001)
Homi D. Sethna, filmmaker (2000)
Donya khaneye man ast / The world is my home (1999)
Khabe Âb / Water dreams (1997)
Bâd-e shomal / Northwind (1993)
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Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.

Filmography
Feature films
Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (1972) with Germaine Montéro, Lucien Raimbourg, Florence Giorgetti, Jean-François Delacour, Hélène Darche, Manuel Pinto, etc.Festival de Cannes 1973 - Quinzaine des réalisateurs
Jury Prize: Festival Jeune Cinéma 1973

La Chanson du mal aimé (1981) with Rufus, Daniel Mesguich, Christine Boisson, Věra Galatíková, Mark Burns, Philippe Clévenot, Dominique Pinon, Madelon Violla, Paloma Matta, Béatrice Bruno, Catherine Belkhodja, Véronique Leblanc, Philippe Avron, Albert Delpy, etc.Festival de Cannes 1982 - Perspectives du cinéma français
Competition selections: Valencia, Valladolid, Istanbul, Montréal

On l'appelait... le Roi Laid (1987) with Yilmaz Güney (mockumentary)Valencia Festival 1988 - Grand Prix for documentaries "Laurel Wreath"
Competition selections: Rotterdam, Valladolid, Strasbourg, Nyon, Cannes, Lyon, Cairo

Paula et Paulette, ma mère (2005) Documentary - Straight to DVD

Short and mid-length
La Grande Grève (1963 - Co-directed CAS collective, IDHEC)
L'Inconnue (1966 - with Paloma Matta and Gérard Blain - Prix CNC Hyères, Sidney)
Un village au Québec
Montréal
Deux aspects du Canada (1969)
La Hongrie, vers quel socialisme ? (1975 - Nominated for best documentary - Césars 1976)
Tibor Déry, portrait d'un écrivain hongrois (1977)
L'huître boudeuse
Ancienne maison Godin ou le familistère de Guise (1977)
Passementiers et Rubaniers
Le quinzième mois
C'était la dernière année de ma vie (1984 - FIPRESCI Prize- Festival Oberhausen 1985 - Nomination - Césars 1986)
Nous aimons tant le cinéma (Film of the European year of cinema - Delphes 1988)
Participation jusqu'en 1978 à la réalisation de films "militants"

Television
Series of seven dramas in German
Numerous documentary and docu-soap type films (TVS CNDP)
Initiation à la vie économique (TV series - RTS promotion)
Contemplatives... et femmes (TF1 - 1976)
Suzel Sabatier (FR3)
Un autre Or Noir (FR3)
Vivre en Géorgie
Portrait d'une génération pour l'an 2000 (France 5 - 2000)
Femmes de peine, femmes de coeur (FR3 - 2003)

Television documentaries
La porte de Sarp est ouverte (1998)
Une histoire balbynienne (2002)
Tamara, une vie de Moscou à Port-au-Prince (unfinished)
Hana et Khaman (unfinished)
En compagnie d'Albert Memmi (unfinished)
Le Lucernaire, une passion de théâtre
Les quatre saisons de la Taillade ou une ferme l'autre
Histoire du peuple kurde (in development)
Les kurdes de Bourg-Lastic (2008)
Réalisation de films institutionnels et industriels
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Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi (born 1969) is a Nigerian-born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford where he was, until June 2021, a Professor of Race Relations, and the Director of the African Studies Centre, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and a Governing Board Fellow. He is currently a Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Adebanwi's research focuses on a range of topics in the areas of social change, nationalism and ethnicity, race relations, identity politics, elites and cultural politics, democratic process, newspaper press and spatial politics in Africa.

Education background
Wale Adebanwi graduated with a first degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, and later earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Ibadan. He also has an MPhil. and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

Career
Adebanwi worked as a freelance reporter, writer, journalist and editor for many newspapers and magazines before he joined the University of Ibadan's Department of Political Science as a lecturer and researcher. He was later appointed as an assistant professor in the African American and African Studies Department of the University of California, Davis, USA. He became a full professor at UC Davis in 2016.Adebanwi is the co-editor of Africa: Journal of the International African Institute and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

Works
His published works include:
Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press, 2016)
Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Authority Stealing: Anti-corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria (Carolina Academic Press, 2012)In addition, he is the editor and co-editor of other books, including.

The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins (James Currey Publishers, 2017)
Writers and Social Thought in Africa (Routledge, 2016)
(co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
(co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
(co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration (Routledge, 2012)
(co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Encountering the Nigerian State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Awards
Rhodes Professorship in Race Relations awarded by Oxford University to Faculty of African and Interdisciplinary Area Studies.
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The Ugly Ones
The Ugly Ones (es: El precio de un hombre, lit. "The Price of a Man", it: The Bounty Killer, later La morte ti segue... ma non ha fretta, lit. "Death follows you... but not in a hurry") is a 1966 Spanish-Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Eugenio Martín.The film marked the debut of Tomás Milián in the western genre and was the first film score of composer Stelvio Cipriani. It was also the first Spanish western to receive a state funding for the "artistic interest of the work". The film was based on the 1958 novel The Bounty Killer by Marvin H. Albert.
It was shown as part of a retrospective on Spaghetti Western at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. On October 11, 2017 Eugenio Martín was honored for the fiftieth anniversary of this at the 7º Almería Western Film Festival.

Plot
The notorious bounty hunter, Luke Chilson, pursues Mexican fugitive Jose Gomez. He follows him through the desert and arrives in a Mexican village where Gomez manages to turn the peasants against his pursuer. Unaware of the danger, Chilson finds himself trapped.

Cast
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Eugenio Martín
Eugenio Martín Márquez (15 May 1925 – 23 January 2023) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He was known for the low-budget genre films he made in the 1960s and 1970s, including Bad Man's River, The Bounty Killer, and Horror Express, the latter being particularly notable for its inclusion of the well-known English actors Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, famous for their work with Hammer Films. Though never remarkably successful either at the box office or among critics, Martín's films, particularly Horror Express, have achieved cult status. The popular horror film magazine Fangoria included Horror Express in its book, 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen: A Celebration of the World's Most Unheralded Fright Flicks.

Early life and first films
Martín was born on 15 May 1925 in Ceuta. He was a child when the Spanish Civil War broke out. Since the uprising first broke out among Nationalist generals in Spanish Africa, the African port city of Ceuta was immediately embroiled in violence. Following the death or arrest of friends and family members, Martín's family fled to Granada on the Spanish mainland.
After publishing a volume of verse, Martín's interests veered toward cinema, and while still at university he created Granada's first film society. Though he considered leaving Francoist Spain for a less censorious environment, he eventually decided to stay in Spain, accepted into the "Institute of Cinematic Investigation and Experiences" in Madrid. At the institute, Martín made a series of well-regarded short films and documentaries before making his first feature film Despedida de soltero ("Farewell to the Single Life"), in 1957.

International collaborations and commercial success
When European film crews began frequently using Spain as an affordable site for location shooting, Martín took advantage of opportunities for collaboration and worked with a number of foreign directors, most notably Nicholas Ray. He had the opportunity to direct films using international casts and crew which familiarized him with many different players in 1960s cinema, by many accounts among the most fertile and creative periods in film history.In 1966 Martín directed The Bounty Killer (released as The Ugly Ones in the United States), the first of many Westerns he was to create. It remains among his better known works; dialogue from the film was sampled in the RZA track, "Ode to Django," which appeared in the credits of the 2012 Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained. The director maintained that the concept behind his film antedated and influenced the Sergio Leone film For a Few Dollars More, worked on by Duccio Tessari - a mutual acquaintance of Martín and his friend and former teacher José G. Maesso.Martín made several musicals and giallo-type films in the following years, solidifying his reputation as "an auteur in every genre", per the subtitle of a recent biography. The director's filmography and competence in English led American producer Philip Yordan to contract him for three films, which remain among his better-known works: Bad Man's River, Pancho Villa, and Horror Express. These films have decidedly uneven critical reputations, but the latter especially remains a favorite among fans of its lead actors, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.Martín's international profile dropped significantly after his 1973 film, A Candle for the Devil, released in North America as It Happened at Nightmare Inn. After this release, most of his work was in Spanish-language television.
On 11 October 2017, he was honored for the fiftieth anniversary of his film El precio de un hombre (1967) at the 7º Almería Western Film Festival.

Personal life and death
Martín died in Madrid on 23 January 2023, at the age of 97.

Selected filmography
Il conquistatore di Maracaibo (1961), starring Hans von Borsody
Despedida de soltero (1961), starring Germán Cobos, Silvia Solar
Nur tote Zeugen schweigen (1962), starring Götz George, Jean Sorel, Heinz Drache
Golden Goddess of Rio Beni (1964), starring Pierre Brice
Captain from Toledo (1965), starring Stephen Forsyth
The Bounty Killer (1967), starring Tomas Milian
Requiem for a Gringo (1968)
Una señora estupenda (1967), starring Lola Flores
Las Leandras (1969), starring Rocío Dúrcal
La vida sigue igual (1969), starring Julio Iglesias
The Fourth Victim (1971) a.k.a. Death at the Deep End of the Swimming Pool, starring Carroll Baker
Bad Man's River (1971), starring Lee Van Cleef, Gina Lollobrigida, James Mason
Horror Express (1972), starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalas
Pancho Villa (1972), starring Telly Savalas, Clint Walker
A Candle for the Devil (1973) a.k.a. It Happened at Nightmare Inn, starring Judy Geeson
The Girl from the Red Cabaret (1973), starring Mel Ferrer, Marisol
No quiero perder la honra (1975), starring Ángela Molina, José Sacristán
Esclava te doy (1976), starring Alfredo Landa
Call Girl (1976)
Tengamos la guerra en paz (1977)
Aquella casa en las afueras (1980) aka The House in the Outskirts
Supernatural (1981) a.k.a. Return of the Poltergeist, starring Cristina Galbó
La sal de la vida (1996), starring Patxi Andión, Ivonne Reyes, Juan Diego Botto

Further reading
Aguilar, Carlos and Anita Haas. Eugenio Martín, un autor para todos los géneros. Retroback & Séptimo Vicio. Spain: 2008.
Lukeman, Adam, ed. 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen: A Celebration of the World's Most Unheralded Fright Flicks. New York: Random House, 2011.
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George Sidney
George Sidney (October 4, 1916 – May 5, 2002) was an American film director and producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His work includes cult classics Bye Bye Birdie (1963) and Viva Las Vegas (1964). With an extensive background in acting, stage direction, film editing, and music, Sidney created many of post-war Hollywood’s big budget musicals, such as Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Show Boat (1951), Kiss Me Kate (1953);  Jupiter's Darling (1955), and Pal Joey (1957).  He was also a president of the Screen Directors Guild for 16 years.A founding partner of Hanna-Barbera animation studio, Sidney was a proponent of the integration of animation into live action, which is immortalized in the dance scene between actor Gene Kelly and Jerry Mouse in Anchors Aweigh (1945). An avid art collector, gardener, musician, painter, and photographer, George Sidney was known for his impeccable sense of style and generosity. His clothing, original scripts, notes, and personal papers are housed in a namesake collection at The Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Biography
Early life
George Sidney was born into show business.  His father, Louis “L.K.” Sidney, was the CEO with Loew's Incorporated  theatre chain. An only child, George tagged along with his father to work at Radio City Music Hall, where he learned the art of choreography, set design, and stage direction. His mother, Hazael Mooney, was a famous Vaudeville star and half of the aquacade team, The Mooney Sisters. Sidney attended Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, New York.
George Sidney absorbed the world of New York City theatre and art. At five years old, George Sidney became the most famous child actor in the world when he played the lead role in The Littlest Cowboy, a 1921 film with western super star, Tom Mix.
After a reputed tryst with a showgirl from The Rockettes , George was sent to Los Angeles at age 15 to learn the movie business from his “uncle,” studio head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Louis B. Mayer. George Sidney began as a dog walker and errand boy in the early 1930s.

Early career at MGM
Sidney soon learned the art of editing at MGM, where he worked alongside aspiring film maker Fred Zinnemann, who went on to direct From Here to Eternity (1953) and Oklahoma! (1955). By the age of 20, Sidney directed many screen tests, with established and aspiring stars, including Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Judy Garland and Ava Gardner. Sidney honed his skills with 85 one-reel shorts—a genre that eventually gave him two Academy Awards with “Quicker’n A Wink” (1940) and “Of Pups and Puzzles” (1941).
In 1938 at age 22, Sidney directed the Our Gang short comedies, which MGM had acquired from Hal Roach upon George’s recommendation. A mere nine years older than his actors, Sidney proved his leadership and moved on to direct the Crime Does Not Pay series and popular Pete Smith specialties.
During World War II, George Sidney was assigned to the Air Force to supervise the Atomic Energy Commission Film Program at Eniwetok, for which received the Certificate of Merit from the Department of Defense and the Plaque of Honor from the United States Air Force. George Sidney was a central figure in the filming of nuclear testing projects.

Feature films
George Sidney came to the fore of American popular cinema with his blockbuster musical, The Harvey Girls (1946), starring Judy Garland and Angela Lansberry. The film introduced Cyd Charisse in her first speaking part.   Sidney’s adaptions of theatrical works to film include Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Show Boat(1951), Kiss Me Kate (1953); Jupiter’s Darling (1955), and Bye Bye Birdie (1963).  His cast Frank Sinatra in his film Pal Joey(1957).  These lavish productions brought George Sidney international acclaim. Sidney’s romantic comedies, including Key to the City (1949), Who Was That Lady? (1960), and The Swinger (1966) diversified his filmography. His period adventure films, including The Three Musketeers (1948),) and the Oscar-winning Merry Wives of Windsor (1954), earned the respect of his colleagues. Sidney’s personal favorite was Scaramouche (1952), a period piece set in pre-revolutionary France that starred Janet Leigh.
Sidney left MGM to make The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) at Columbia Pictures where he made his base for the next decade for such films as Jeanne Eagels (1957),Pepe (1960), and Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He returned to MGM to film A Ticklish Affair (1963) and Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas (1964).
In both his technical skill and artistic vision, George Sidney stands among the 20th century’s most celebrated film directors. He was ranked second 11 years later.  Sidney’s dedication to the craft of movie making gave his films a visual intensity that captivated the American public and created the foundation for the big-budget Hollywood productions. Sidney’s final film Half a Sixpence was released in 1967.

Animation
Sidney became good friends with MGM animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Hanna and Barbera's Jerry Mouse appeared alongside Gene Kelly in Sidney's film Anchors Aweigh (1945). After MGM closed its animation studio on May 15, 1957, Sidney helped Hanna and Barbera form a deal with Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures, to form the successful television animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions, and was a shareholder in the company. Sidney later featured Hanna-Barbera's Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Huckleberry Hound, and Yogi Bear in Bye Bye Birdie (1963).
In 1961, Sidney appeared as himself, along with the canine Lassie in the episode "The Stones Go to Hollywood" of the sitcom The Donna Reed Show. The episode plugged Sidney's then current feature film Pepe, in which Donna Reed made a cameo.

Professional service, awards and tributes
Sidney devoted much of his later life to professional service as a mentor to directors, writers, and educators. Sidney became the youngest president of the Directors Guild of America, having been nominated by his friend, director John Ford. A lifelong learner, Sidney attended law school at the University of Southern California and lectured extensively about film production. George Sidney’s work has been celebrated at museums and film festivals around the world: Paris; Barcelona; Helsinki; Moscow; Las Vegas; Palm Springs; Deauville; and Honolulu. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. at the Northwest corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine. Sidney was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award four times, starting with the lush Technicolor remake of Show Boat. In 1958, he was presented with a Golden Globe Award for Best World Entertainment through Musical Films.
Posthumously, Sidney’s widow, Corinne Entratter Sidney, donated the director’s extensive professional archive to the Smithsonian Institution. These artifacts include scripts with handwritten notes, personal correspondence, and his extensive photography collection spanning Sidney’s 60-year career in the film industry.  A renown clotheshorse, Sidney was routinely on Mr. Blackwell’s Best Dressed List. He was known for his love of Hermes neckwear and British tailoring. His clothing is in the costume collection at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the State Museum of Nevada Las Vegas.

Personal life
In his personal life, Sidney was married in 1942 to drama coach, Lillian "Burnsie" Burns Salzer (1903–1998). He was fifteen years her junior. In the late 1970s, he married his second wife, Jane Adler Robinson (d. 1991), who was the widow of actor Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973). In 1991, Sidney married his third wife, actress, model and journalist Corinne Kegley Entratter, also known as Corinne Cole, who was the widow of showman and Las Vegas entrepreneur Jack Entratter. Sidney was a prolific photographer. He collected art and was an avid and skilled gardener. Sidney was a member of the Royal Horticultural Society. He died in Las Vegas, Nevada at age 85 from lymphoma on May 5, 2002.

Awards and nominations
Partial filmography
Further reading
Monder, Eric (1994). George Sidney:a Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313284571.

External links

George Sidney at IMDb
George Sidney at AllMovie
George Sidney at Find a Grave
George Sidney Collection Finding Aid at the National Museum of American History - https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAH.AC.0867