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- Director
Nipon Goswami was born on 3 September 1942 in Kolibari, Tezpur, Assam, India. He was an actor and director, known for Dr. Bezbarua 2 (2023), Dr. Bezbarua (1969) and Tumi Mur Mathu Mur (2000). He was married to Ranjita Goswami. He died on 27 October 2022 in Nemcare Super Speciality Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, India.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Tim Steeves was a writer and actor, known for The Rick Mercer Report (2004), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1993) and This Hour Has 22 Minutes: New Year's Eve Special (1998). He died on 27 October 2022 in Toronto, Canada.- Renzo Casellato was born on 18 October 1936 in Adria, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for Les contes d'Hoffmann - I racconti di Hoffmann (1995), L'Elisir d'amore (1968) and Tancredi (1977). He died on 27 October 2022 in Adria, Rovigo, Italy.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Director
Stephen C. Grossman was born on 23 July 1946 in the USA. He was a producer and director, known for Newhart (1982), Julie (1992) and George & Leo (1997). He was married to Joan. He died on 27 October 2022 in Palm Desert, California, USA.- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Faisal Al-Yasiri was born on 16 September 1933 in Najaf, Iraq. He was a director and producer, known for Al-ras (1976), Al-nahr (1979) and Babel Habibati (1988). He was married to Hind Kamil. He died on 27 October 2022 in Amman, Jordan.- Director
- Cinematographer
- Editor
Agustin Blazquez was born in Cardenas, Cuba. He left Cuba on July 18, 1965, and lived in Montreal, Paris and Madrid before arriving in the U.S. in 1967.
Blazquez graduated from The Municipal Academy of Dramatic Arts of Havana in 1962. Although the single curriculum available was termed "Dramatic Arts", he began his acting career before graduation by performing on radio, TV and in theater.
Before graduating, he and a fellow graduate purchased a Keystone 16 mm camera because 16 mm was the only film stock available in Cuba at that time. With the two reels of stock they were able to find to purchase, they produced two films for the sole purpose of obtaining the experience. They had no access to editing equipment, so the productions were shot in sequence. Due to the lack of everything from equipment and opportunity in post-revolutionary Cuba, they were able to view the films only once. There was no means to screen or otherwise distribute them. The two reels were left behind in Cuba to unknown fate.
In 1962 Blazquez auditioned for I.C.A.I.C., Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematografica, the official government film studio. In 1963 he signed a contract to play the role of "Responsable", the supervisor of a group volunteer teachers in the Sierra Maestra mountains in En Dias Como Estos, directed Jorge Fraga, released in 1964. He also played the part of the bartender in Cronica Cubana, and a bit part in Preludio 11, both 1963.
While living in Madrid he perused his acting career by appearing in numerous dramatic, musical and comedy television productions for TBE, Television Espanola from January 1966 to June 1967.
In the U.S. he appeared in America's Most Wanted as drug dealer in 1989, an later did the English voice-over of King Juan Carlos of Spain and Jordi Pujol, guitarist from Barcelona, for Maryland Public Television series, The Immigrants.
In 2008 he was the narrator for the Cuban Spanish version of Welcome to the U.S. Guidebook for Refugees produced by the U.S. State Department.
After arriving in the U.S. Blazquez was stricken by the inaccuracies and omissions on the subject of Cuba in the U.S. Media, and by the freedom to take action, leaving him feeling compelled, by 1968 to began writing articles on the subject. Eventually numbering over 300 to date, the articles were distributed at first by U.S. Mail and word of mouth, later by fax, then email and appearance on numerous websites. Some were published by the Houston Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Washington Inquirer, etc. in the U.S. and others abroad. Internet sites such sites as Newsmax and FrontPage Magazine have picked up his articles.
Meanwhile, his film production education continued by way of making experimental productions using an 8 mm home movie camera (including a silent musical) and video as soon as he obtained his first home video camera. He also took two courses offered by local cable TV. The rest is will power.
In 1995, his first documentary of the series Covering Cuba premiered at the American Film Institute in the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He went on to produce Cuba: The Pearl of the Antilles, Covering Cuba 2: The Next Generation, Covering Cuba 3: Elian, presented at the 2003 Miami Latin Film Festival and the 2004 American Film Renaissance Film Festival in Dallas, Texas, Covering Cuba 4: The Rats Below, Dan Rather 60 Minutes an inside view, Covering Cuba 5: Act Of Repudiation, Covering Cuba 6: Curacao and Covering Cuba 7, Che: The Other Side of an Icon.
Covering Cuba 3, 4, 5 & 6 were shown at the Palm Beach International Latin Film Festival. Covering Cuba 2 was shown at the Miami International Book Fair.
To aid in the production of the documentaries, he established UnCovering Cuba Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization in 2005. A selection of his articles, along with those of Carlos Wotzkow, were published in the book Covering and Discovering in 2001 and he translated the book by Luis Grave de Peralta Morell, The Mafia of Havana: The Cuban Cosa Nostra in 2002.
He also produced a music video, Uno with Cuban American singer/song writer Luisa Maria Guell and You Don't Know Che and March of a Progressive with singer/song writer Steve Pichan, and a compilation of the dance numbers of rumba dancer Maria Antonieta Pons from her movies.
His queue of future productions is long and continues to grow, as he nears completion of the first in a new series Art and Politics.- Writer
- Producer
Rodney Peppé was born on 24 June 1934 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Angelmouse (1999) and Huxley Pig (1989). He was married to Tordis Tatjana Tekkel,. He died on 27 October 2022 in the UK.- Bahaa Taher was born 1935, in Giza (Greater Cairo), to parents from the Karnak village in the Luxor governorate, Upper Egypt. He graduated from the literature department at the Cairo University and has, since his student days, been strongly involved in the left-wing literary circles. Taher was one of the notable writers of Egypt's Gallery 68 movement which was linking literature with the politics of that time. He began his career working as a social commentator and story teller at the national radio; although in the 1970s he was fired for his leftist stances and banned from voicing opinion, writing and publishing in Egypt. In the 1970s he was fired for his leftist stances and banned from voicing opinion, writing and publishing in Egypt. "Back then, Egypt's Minister of Information followed a very clear rule 'those who are not with us, are against us' and apparently I was not considered to be with them," Bahaa Taher says, recalling the years he was forced to live on a minimum salary and abandon publishing.
- Jalal Maghami was born on 24 July 1941 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Üç Kagitçilar (1975), Whirlwind of Life (1968) and The hut (1968). He was married to Rafat Hashempour. He died on 27 October 2022 in Tehran, Iran.
- Joyce Molyneux was born on 17 April 1931 in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, UK. She died on 27 October 2022 in Bath, England, UK.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Geraldine Hunt was born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Baba! (1983), Top of the Pops (1964) and Soul Train (1971). She died on 27 October 2022 in the USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hasse Burman was born on 17 January 1926 in Umeå, Västerbottens län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for 47:an Löken (1971), 47:an Löken blåser på! (1972) and Popular Music (2004). He died on 27 October 2022 in Sweden.- Wenche Fæhn was born on 27 January 1930 in Norway. She was an actress, known for Prosessen (1962), Den uskyldige (1962) and Det evige Spørsmål (1962). She died on 27 October 2022 in Norway.
- Janne Heiskanen was born on 26 January 1979 in Helsinki, Finland. He was an actor, known for Rasmus: Funky Jam (1996), The Rasmus: Playboys (1997) and Rasmus: Sold (1997). He died on 27 October 2022.