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- Patricia Millardet was born on 24 March 1957 in Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. She was an actress, known for La piovra (1984), Le chevalier de Pardaillan (1988) and Deadly Circuit (1983). She was married to Randy Casterman. She died on 13 April 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Sarah Maldoror is the author of some forty films making up a multiple and rebellious work, made of fiction, documentary and poetry, and interpreted by a war song: the short film Monangambée, shot in 1969 in Algiers where she was then living, which evokes the torture by the Portuguese colonial army of a sympathizer of the struggle for the liberation of Angola, visited in prison by his company.
Before becoming a pioneer of pan-African cinema, Sarah Maldoror lived part of her youth in Paris where, passionate about theater and received at the school in rue Blanche (according to her friend, the future Ivorian filmmaker Timité Bassori, they are among the first black students to enter), she co-founded in 1956 with the same Bassori, Toto Bissainthe, Ababacar Samb Makharam and Robert Liensol the company Les Griots, which became the first black theater company in France. The Tragedy of King Christophe by Aimé Césaire and Les Nègres by Jean Genet (directed by Roger Blin) are among the plays created by the troupe, which Maldoror presides for a time, with the material help and intellectual support of Alioune Diop, founder in 1947 of the important Parisian anti-colonialist review Présence africaine.
In 1961, Sarah Maldoror left France and went to study at the VGIK, the Moscow film school, before joining the African decolonization movements (in Algeria, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau) with her companion Mario Pinto de Andrade, whom he met in Paris and co-founder of the Movement for the Liberation of Angola, in exile during the war of independence (1961-1975) against the Portuguese metropolis.
It was in Algiers, where she settled in 1966, that she made her debut on the cinematographic front of the anti-colonial struggles: assistant on the Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966) and Pan-African Festival of Algiers 1969, documentary by William Klein, she quickly made her first film, followed by a lost film shot in Guinea-Bissau and a first "fiction" feature film, Sambizanga (1972). Filmed in the Republic of Congo, based on an Angolan novel by José Luandino Vieira, adapted by his companion Pinto de Andrade with the French writer Maurice Pons, Sambizanga takes place in 1961 and describes the repression of the Angolan Liberation Movement from point of view of Maria, wife of a revolutionary activist imprisoned and tortured by the Portuguese army, who sets out to find him across the country. Shot with real actors from the struggle then in progress, and one of the first African films directed by a woman in the history of cinema, Sambizanga remains seen and visible today - it is easily found on the Internet.
Leaving Algeria following a disagreement with the hierarchy of the FLN in power (some sources mention that she was imprisoned and then expelled from the country), Sarah Maldoror settled in France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis ), and continues to make films. His work includes documentaries (shot in Seine-Saint-Denis, Martinique, Guyana or Cape Verde for Fogo, the island of fire in 1978) and numerous portraits of artists and writers (the poets Léon Gontran-Damas, Aimé Césaire, Assia Djebar, René Depestre or Louis Aragon, singer Toto Bissainthe, musician Archie Shepp). Visible on the site of the CNRS video library, a 1974 short film, And the Dogs Are Silenced, shot in the reserves of the Musée de l'homme dedicated to objects from black Africa, adapted from extracts from the play of the same name by Aimé Césaire, with the actor Gabriel Glissant (seen in Soleil O du grand Med Hondo) and the filmmaker herself in the role of the revolutionary's mother, dressed in an ironic white scientific coat. But if there is a science of revolt, Sarah Madoror will have written, shot, played and some of the greatest pages. We hear more than twice, everywhere behind the scenes of the Musée de l'Homme, the sound of fire.
She died in April 2020 as a result of Covid-19. In November 2021, "Sarah Maldoror, Cinéma Tricontinental" presented by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, is a retrospective of her work, her life and her political commitment. The exhibition extends to the Musée de l'Homme, the Museum of the History of Immigration and the Museum of Art and History Paul Éluard in Saint-Denis.- Frank Bongiorno was an actor, known for Fame (1980), Prince of Central Park (2000) and Natural Enemies (1979). He died on 13 April 2020.
- Terri Zimmern was born on 3 July 1930 in Macao, Portuguese Colony. She was an actress, known for Manster (1959). She was married to Kenneth G. Crane. She died on 13 April 2020.
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- Editor
Kevin Kocvar was born on 26 November 1963. He was an editor, known for Atomic Puppet (2016), Hilda (2018) and The Toy Castle (2000). He died on 13 April 2020 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.- Elizabeth Moore was born on 30 November 1932 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Nebraska (2013), Time-Men (2009) and Pretend Time (2010). She died on 13 April 2020 in Sedona, Arizona, USA.
- Fastcash June was born on 24 February 2001. He was an actor, known for Fastcash June: Stayin Down (2019), FastCashJune feat. Cruddy Murda: 4AM in Cali (2020) and Fastcash June: Streets Deep (2020). He died on 13 April 2020 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Pierre Ebert was born on 10 September 1938 in Québec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Les Bougon: C'est aussi ça la vie (2004), Le zoo du Capitaine Bonhomme (1964) and Le siège de l'âme (1997). He died on 13 April 2020 in Québec, Canada.
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Knox Phillips was born on 30 October 1945 in Memhis, Tennessee, USA. He is known for Moonshine Highway (1996), This Is Elvis (1981) and Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock'n'Roll (2000). He was married to Diane Duncan. He died on 13 April 2020 in Eads, Tennessee, USA.- Music Department
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- Actor
Moraes Moreira was born on 8 July 1947 in Ituaçu, Bahia, Brazil. He was a composer and actor, known for Woman on Top (2000), Eu Transo, Ela Transa (1972) and I Love You (1986). He died on 13 April 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Animation Department
- Art Department
Ann Sullivan, an animator and ink-and-paint artist who worked on iconic films of the Disney Renaissance. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, followed her sister Helen to California, and after studying at the Art Center in Pasadena, landed a job at Walt Disney in the animation paint lab in the early 1950s. After a work hiatus - Ann was starting a family of four children - in 1973 she fought her way back into the business, at first at Filmation Hanna Barbera. But all she ever wanted to do was work at the Walt Disney Studios, and she did.
Ann rejoined the animation department in time to paint and ink on such Disney classics as The Little Mermaid, The Lion King and Lilo & Stitch. Stunningly, late in her career, she made the switch to computerized animated production at Disney until her retirement in the early 2000s.
Nick named "Giggles', You couldn't help but fall in love with her laugh. She had the best laugh of any person, Ann didn't just laugh with a sound. When she giggled, her whole body would shake and light up with joy, and it was contagious for everyone in the room.- Soundtrack
Ryo Kawasaki was born on 25 February 1947 in Koenji, Tokyo, Japan. He died on 13 April 2020 in Tallinn, Estonia.- Director
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Dennis Ledergerber was born on 18 September 1987. He was a director and producer, known for The Girl in the Snow (2018), Zufallbringen (2008) and Himmelfahrtskommando (2013). He died on 13 April 2020 in St. Gallen, Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland.- Jacques Blamont was born on 13 October 1926 in Paris, France. He died on 13 April 2020 in Chatillon, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France.
- Glenna Goodacre was born on 28 August 1939 in Lubbock, Texas, USA. She was married to Cyrus Lee (Mike) Schmidt Jr. and William Goodacre. She died on 13 April 2020 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
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Alan Jacobi was born on 9 March 1953 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. He is known for Eric Clapton: Live in Hyde Park (1997). He was married to Peta Seccombe Harper . He died on 13 April 2020 in the UK.- Andrey Mayorov was born on 30 August 1934. He was an actor, known for Radosti zemnye (1988), I Am Twenty (1965) and Den semeynogo torzhestva (1977). He died on 13 April 2020.
- Vilmos Oláh was born on 12 July 1927 in Budapest, Hungary. He died on 13 April 2020 in Gyõr, Hungary.
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- Production Manager
William Sims Myers was born on 5 December 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. William Sims was a writer and production manager, known for Finn, Hotwire (1980) and Avenging Angel (2007). William Sims was married to Wanda Shea. William Sims died on 13 April 2020 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.