Best Feature (Budget over $250,000)
Octav
When an elderly man returns to his family home after decades of absence, the apparition of his childhood sweetheart triggers a rewind to the life-changing events from his youth.
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Serge Ioan CelebidachiDirectorLe Jardin de Celibidache
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Serge Ioan Celebidachi, James OlivierWriterEdward &Lulu
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Adela Vrinceanu CelebidachiProducer
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Marcel IuresKey Cast“Octav”Pirates of the Caribbean
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Victor RebengiucKey Cast“Spiridon”Medal of Honor
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Lia BugnarKey Cast“Mama”Graduation
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Blasco GiuratoDirector of PhotographyCinema Paradiso
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Vladimir CosmaComposerLe Bal, Le Diner de Cons
Best Feature (Budget under $250,000)
The Incomplete
“The Incomplete” is a seven minutes animated short film tells the story of a hungry Otter, but a perfectionist & obsessive one who wants everything complete in a perfect world. A world that has countless favorable chances to have.
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Erfan ParsapourWriter
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Erfan ParsapourDirector
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Ali ShahdadProducer
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Mazyar YounesiComposer
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Alireza AlavianSound Designer
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Khalil KhalilianTechnical Director (TD)
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Mashhood ValianAnimation
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Hamed HoseinzadehAnimation
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Ali MahmoodiLight & Render
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Negar AhmadiModeling & Texture
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Morteza GhofliModeling & Texture
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Majid NejatiModeling & Texture
Best Feature (No-Budget under $25,000)
ROBIN (K. Schmutzler, T. Schmutzler)
A man of words is forced to become a man of action as John discovers the secret bucket list of his terminally ill son Robin. The two secretly abscond from the hospital an experience a father-son adventure in South Africa and fulfill the boy’s greatest wishes - as the police pursue John for kidnapping.
After the performance at the Slam Poetry Championship, John doesn’t find fans waiting for him backstage, rather the police are there and immediately arrest him. As the main suspect in the kidnapping of his son, Robin, he is put behind bars.
But the former Slam Poetry Champion keeps quiet about the whereabouts of the boy. Even when facing Robin’s mother, Miriam, John only recites a seemingly confused poem about the Cape of Good Hope. It is through his poems, however, that Detective Eric Rosenbaum discovers clues about Robin's kidnapping and also his potential whereabouts in South Africa.
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Toby SchmutzlerDirector
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Kevin SchmutzlerDirector
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Toby SchmutzlerWriter
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Kevin SchmutzlerWriter
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Caroline MuhlProducer
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Jeff BurrellKey Cast
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Aiden FlowersKey Cast
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Clayton NemrowKey Cast
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Leni SpeidelKey Cast
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Luisa WietzorekKey Cast
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Tshamano SebeKey Cast
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Hans HolzbecherKey Cast
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Grzegorz StoszKey Cast
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Paul ClessKey Cast
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Benedikt SebastianKey Cast
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Naima SebeKey Cast
ACCORDION
In an asylum, located in an island the patients spend their everyday life according to their own plans. The asylum is next to a quay and the residents commute to other locations. The patients spend their time watching the people and the travelling of the residents has turned into a wish for them. But an unexpected event disrupts the everyday life in asylum and the livings of patients are changed.
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Alireza AminiDirector
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Alireza AminiWriter
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Morteza ShayestehProducer
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Mehran AhmadiKey CastActor
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Majid SalehiKey CastActor
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Hadi kazemiKey CastActor
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Pejman JamshidiKey CastActor
Best Student Film
The First Day of April
Guli wakes up in the middle of the night and finds her father, Uri, preparing a prank for April Fools’ Day (April 1st), which begins that next morning. When she awakens in the morning she is surprised to hear that her father died during his morning jog at the kibbutz where they live. While her family is busy with the funeral preparations, Guli finds clues that maybe her father is playing a practical joke on everyone.
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Shauly MelamedDirectorOut of Breath
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Shauly MelamedWriter
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Ben LevyCinematographer
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Moris Ben MayorEditorLeibowitz: Faith, Country and Man, The Kibbutz, Stalags
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Tehila Afota BranderProducer
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Shir Helena RosenProducer
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Alona ShauloffKey Cast“Guli”One Week and a Day
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Lana EttingerKey Cast“Amalia (mother)”The Syrian Bride, Surrogate
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Kobi FaragKey Cast“Dani”Photo Farag (Docu), FarewellBaghdad
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Erez KahanaKey Cast“Uri (father)”Yossi & Jagger
Best Documentary Film
Mysteries of the Lake
The archeological site of Takht-e-Soleyman in northwest of Iran, and its mysterious lake is bound with secrets, myths and legends partly left from real historical events and partly made by creative mind of the locals. The depth of water has kept the lake out of reach which made the secrets and mysteries even more enigmatic. The bottom of this mysterious lake is untouched Because of its poisonous water and Mountainous location. now for the first time in history has successfully opened its way to the
dark depth of the lake . this film is going to introduce this historical place and tries the exploration of dark depths of the lake .
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Armin IsarianDirectorDreams in the Depths, Dinner Time, Tehran-Today
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Armin IsarianWriterKejal, Dreams in the Depths, Dinner Time
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Armin IsarianProducerWhale Hunter, Dreams in the Depths
Best Short Film (5 minutes to 30 minutes)
Boxed
A fictionalized short film based on the true story of the terrifying daring escape of Henry "Box" Brown, who used creativity to escape from slavery in 1849 by mailing himself to freedom.
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Wanjiru NjenduDirectorLook Again, Smile, The S.T.E.M Adventures of Kabi and Sasha
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Wanjiru NjenduWriterLook Again, Smile, The S.T.E.M Adventures of Kabi and Sasha
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Wanjiru NjenduProducerLook Again, Smile, The S.T.E.M Adventures of Kabi and Sasha
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Adetokumboh M'CormackKey Cast“Henry "Box" Brown”Blood Diamond, Battle Los Angeles, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Peres OwinoKey Cast“Woman”Bound: Africans versus African Americans, Seasons of love, Default
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Gregor MannsKey Cast“Bounty Hunter/ Port Police”The Night Shift, The Bar
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William Joseph HillKey Cast“Wagon Driver/ Steamboat Crew”Agent Steele, That Darn Girlfriend
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Emerson GregoriKey Cast“Samuel/ Man 2”Smile, Funny by Association
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Mikey KettingerKey Cast“Passmore Williamson”
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Bongani MlamboCinematographerAll Creatures, Three Days In August, Woodshock
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Benjamin A. OnyangoAssociate ProducersTears of the sun, God's not dead, X Files
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Maggie ManyanAssociate ProducersAcute Failure
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Makenzi JordanProduction DesignersShortcomings, Choke
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Brittany IngramProduction DesignersPuppet Master: The Littlest Reich, 1985, Howlers
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Hanna SturwoldEditorsBlood.E.mary, Faceless God
Best Animation/Cartoon
The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands
A powerful king nearly lost his family due to the Snow Queen’s evil deeds. He finds a way to withdraw all the magic from the world – they who master the magic powers get trapped into the Mirrorlands. The only one who can stop him and keep the fairytale in our world is Gerda – as her own superpower is not sourcery but her faith in kindness and friendship. In Gerda’s new adventures, the Snow Queen herself will help her along with trolls and pirates.
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ROBERT LENCEDirector
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ALEXEY TSITSILINDirector
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ROBERT LENCEWriter
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VLADIMIR NIKOLAEVWriter
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ANDREY KORENKOVWriter
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ALEXEY TSITSILINWriter
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ALEXEY ZAMYSLOVWriter
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YURIY MOSKVINProducer
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VLADIMIR NIKOLAEVProducer
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VADIM VERESHAGINProducer
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PAVEL STEPANOVProducer
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BORIS MASHKOVTSEVProducer
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LISHA NINProducer
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Laurie HymesKey Cast“Gerda”
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Samia MountsKey Cast“Snow Queen”
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Marc ThompsonKey Cast“King Harald”
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Devin Bailey GriffinKey Cast“Alfida”
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Jason GriffithKey Cast“Kai”
Best Horror
AFTER THE LETHARGY
Sara (Andrea Guasch) travels to the hot spot where one of the most extraordinary contacts with extraterrestrials in history supposedly took place. A forest ranger (Joe Manjón) and a sinister villager (Ramon Canals), accompany the girl, helping her to overcome the dangers that nature entails. However, despite good intentions, they will soon be attacked by a creature that lives in the depths of the forest, being forced to take refuge in an old abandoned military barracks.
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Marc CarretéDirectorAsmodexia
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Marc CarretéWriterAsmodexia
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Charles HamiltonProducer
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Marc CarretéProducerAsmodexia, Framed
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Andrea GuaschKey Cast“Sara Hamilton”Submergence, My kamp Rock
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Joe ManjónKey Cast“Joe, the Ranger”Framed, Risen
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Ramon CanalsKey Cast“Ed”Asmodexia
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Mark SchardanKey Cast“TV presenter”Proyecto Lazaro, Palmeras en la nieve
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Sue FlackKey Cast“Mrs. Marshall”El año de la plaga, El segundo nombre
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Xavi GarrigaCINEMATOGRAPHYAsmodexia
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Jordi DalmauOSTAsmodexia, Framed
Best Science Fiction
Team Teenettes
Balancing regular battles against a giant robot and a mad scientist with high school life leaves supercharged teen hero Kaylee questioning the predictability of her team’s missions.
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Brian MorelanDirectorMining Moon, Game Companion
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Bianca PoroliseanuDirectorMining Moon, Beyond, Doomsday
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Gord BestwickWriter
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Brian Morelan andGord BestwickProducer
Best Music Video
Otsochodzi - Euforia
Music video for a young rapper Otsochodzi. In his personal way of the cross he struggles to convey a message to a generation of youngsters, who are obsessed with the idea of living life to its fullest, and are willing to do absolutely anything for attention and acceptance.
Best Trailer (one minute to two and half minutes)
Saving You, Saving Me
Amber is a young woman gripped by despair and thinks her life is pointless. What she doesn't know (but will soon discover) is that she's needed by a secret society of vampires who have discovered that Amber is the key to their survival.
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Tina JetterDirector
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Marc I. DanielsDirector
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Tina JetterWriter
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Tina JetterKey Cast“Amber”
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Marc I. DanielsKey Cast“The Boss”
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Jon ReischKey Cast“Robert”
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Stan J. AdamsKey Cast“James”
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Janet SwabyProducer
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Tina JetterProducer
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Marc FrattoDirector of Photographer
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Jon ReischStunt Coordinator
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Marc FrattoStunt Coordinator
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Donald SchwartzStill Photographer
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Georgia HiltonEditor
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Catherine SuhMakeUp Artist/Effects
Best Script
Appointment in Jerusalem
She left prestige...to find purpose. This is a true story of a well-respected Danish schoolteacher Lydia Christensen, who in the late 1920's, left her career, family, and a male suitor while moving to Jerusalem. She soon comes into contact with a sick baby Jewish girl, whom she nurtures back to health. She then adopts other abandoned and ill children and finds true love and happiness in her new life.
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Derrick FergusonWriter
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Brent WhitesideWriter
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Jonathan CookWriter
Best Human Rights
Yasmina
Yasmina is a 15-years-old teenager who is passionate about soccer and practices with the team FC SAINT ETIENNE. Originally from Morocco, she is in an irregular situation in France, with her father and his French partner. One evening when she returns from a training, she sees her father being arrested before her own eyes.
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Ali EsmiliDirector
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Claire CahenDirector
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Ali EsmiliWriter
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Nelson GhrénassiaProducer
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Hana MekacherKey Cast“Yasmina”
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Capucine ValmaryKey Cast
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Kenza Noah AicheKey Cast
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Wissam HojeijMusic
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Eric DumontPhotography
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Baptiste Petit-GatsEditor
Best Australian Movie
Bet the Demon Wins
A teenager struggles to fight off the demons that have come to haunt her following rejection by her gambling addicted father and betrayal by her sister.
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Denise HurleyDirector#Me4TV - next gen talk show
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Karlisha HurleyWriter
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Denise HurleyWriter#Me4TV - next gen talk show
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Denise HurleyProducer#Me4TV - next gen talk show; So This Is It Then, Red Wire
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Karlisha HurleyKey Cast“Meg”Nightmare Tenant, Wrapped, Sister Mercy, Red Wire, Karlisha and Morgan, Hello Tom Sullivan
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Kylie RiddleKey Cast“Jess”Nameless: Blood and Chains, 1 , Battalion, The Battlefield