Ron Perlman, a classically trained actor, has appeared in countless stage plays, feature films and television productions. With a career spanning over three decades, Perlman has worked alongside such diverse actors as Marlon Brando, Sean Connery, Dominique Pinon, Brad Dourif, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Jude Law, Christina Ricci, Federico Luppi, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Wincott, and Elijah Wood. He began
as Amoukar, one of the tribesmen in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Academy Award-winning film Quest for Fire (1981), for which he received a Genie nomination. Perlman teamed up with Annaud again, as the hunchback, Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986)

 

Karen black has this way of sort of getting around. She has done over 150 movies, 5 Broadway and many off -Broadway shows, managed to get 5 of her screenplays made into movies. She’s also a playwright and a songwriter. Her movies include Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe, Jack Claytyon’s The Great Gatsby for which she won another Golden Globe, John Schlessinger’s Day of the Locust for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, Robert Altman’s Nashville, for which she was nominated for a Grammy, Jack Smight’s Airport 75, Alfred Hitchcock’s, Family Plot, Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, and Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean.

 

ROB NILSSON is a San Francisco based director. Nilsson and co-director John Hanson won the Camera d’Or at Cannes for Northern Lights (1979) and Nilsson won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for Heat and Sunlight (1988). He is the first American film director to have won both awards. He is also creator of the Direct Action style of digital filmmaking taught in the Tenderloin Group Actor’s Ensemble, San Francisco, the Citizen Cinema Player’s Ensemble, Berkeley, Celik Kayalar’s Film Acting Bay Area and in workshops around the world

 

 

Gian-Luca Baldi – (Bologna, Italy, 1961) is a composer, a writer, and a composition professor since 1996 (in Bari Conservatory of Music first, and, since 2012, in Castelfranco Veneto, Venice). His catalogue lists more than fifty compositions:
symphonic and chamber works commissioned by important Italian orchestras and Festivals (as Collegium Musicum, Orchestra della Provincia di Bari, Orchestra Filarmonia di Treviso, Cantiere d’Arte di Montepulciano), music for dance (he worked for many years
with American dancer and choreographer Teri Weikel), and music tales for theater. He is the author of five chamber operas (four of which has been published in elegant illustrated books with CD), two novels, and many short stories

Marika Bournaki At the 2009 Palaces of St. Petersburg Festival in Russia, Ms. Bournaki played the Schumann Piano Concerto with the St. Petersburg Symphony under the baton of Vladimir Lande. The performance was aired on Russian television and made into a DVD. 2011 Canada’s Women of the Year her numerous performances include: 2011 at Carnegie Hall presented by the Glenn Gould Foundation. 2009-10 Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Montreal Symphony, Andrew Grams, conducting; recitals of Chopin and Schumann at the National Arts Centre Debut Recital Series in Ottawa and at the Seoul Arts Center Opera House in South Korea; and at the Flanders Festival in Belgium and on the Accordate Konzerte Series in Aachen, Germany.

Robert M. Young during the period of 2004 – 2009, directed five episodes of Battlestar Galactica with Edward James Olmos, for which he was awarded a Peabody. Among his over 20 films are Human Error (2004), Roosters (1995), Triumph of the Spirit (1989), Dominic and Eugene (1988), Extremities (1986), Alambrista (1977), Short Eyes
(1977). In 1977 he won the Camera d’Or at Cannes and Best Feature at San
Sebastian for Alambrista.



MALEK JANDALI Born in Germany to Syrian parents in 1972, award-winning composer and pianist, Malek Jandali, is recognized as a leading figure in today's piano world. His outstanding recordings and extensive concert tours receive abundantly glowing praise. His musical career as a concert pianist began in 1988, after winning the first prize at the National Young Artists competition followed by the 1997 Outstanding Musical Performer Award.

A prolific composer, Maleks works have received critical acclaim in major newspapers throughout Europe and North America. He has been a frequent guest on National Public Radio (NPR), BBC, Radio France Musique and was featured on CNN, PBS, Al Jazeera, Al Arabyia, and France 2 TV.