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2024 UMFF Reception Gala
Filmmakers Self Introduction; UMFF Juries Meet with the Filmmakers; Screenplay Showcases, Dinner
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Time: 7:00-10:00PM; June 15, 2024
Location: McTaggart Hall in Fred Hesse Park (29301 Hawthorne Blvd, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275) Admission by Gala Pass
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The Performing Actors
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Claudia Coloma, Actress, Host
Claudia Coloma is a Los Angeles based, London trained, Chilean-American actress. She started acting from an early age (4 or 5 years old) to act in impromptu neighborhood performances and school plays while in Chile. Back in the United States, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree with a Theater Major and Art and Music Minors from the University of Nebraska , received a Master of Arts degree in Text and Performance Studies from King's College London, in association with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She stayed to do a one year intensive acting training at the Drama Studio London.
In Los Angeles, she has starred as Mary Magdalene in the Emmy Award nominated History Channel TV movie, "Time Machine: Beyond the Da Vinci Code", which challenges the history behind Dan Brown's best -selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code". She has also starred in "Detach", an official selection for the Vegas CineFest International Film Festival, "Book of Choices", "Sin Frontera"which has won 8 awards and 3 nominations in the festival circuit |
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Maeya Cultural Ambassador Title Contest
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The 2024UMFF Screenplay Live Show Case
Screenplay Title:Brothers Blood
|United States| 90p
Writer: CV Herst, Virginia Travers, Scott Amour
Director: Cris Felioe
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Mike Shields II, Actor, Producer, Screenwriter. Jury Representative
Mike is the owner and founder of Team 33 Productions, however, he started in this business as an actor first. He has completed several short films that have screened at The 168 Film Festival. In 2011 Blue Blazes also screened at 2011's Comic Con International Independent Film Festival, the first 168 film to do so.
In 2013 he played the lead in Invisible Sacrifice , a short based on Romans 12:1, which also showed at the initial Alpha/Omega Con, where he taught a seminar on how to make a short film. In 2014, he won Best Screenplay at The Universe Multicultural Film Festival with Diamond is a Girl's Best Friend, a period comedy set in 1939. Mr. Shields II as leader of the firm is an industry insider, attending all major trade shows and events keeping in touch with the bridge between entertainment, creation and monetization. His biggest asset is his ability to pick things up quickly, and to adapt to any working environment |
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