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The Panel Speakers
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James Ridgley; Writer, Director
James Ridgley, just out of High School started his career performing a Comedy-Juggling act around the world, alongside talents such as Ray Charles; Marilyn McCoo; Penn and Teller, Pee Wee Herman, the late great Bill Hicks and Bob Saget, among others. Turning to writing screenplays his feature script "DC DOG" got him noticed, along with a 2nd Place standing in Kodak's Short Script Film Awards for his original script "WHERE LIFE BEGINS" Two other screenplays placed in top festivals which lead to paid assignments. He also had 2 TV Series Pilots in development and 3 feature scripts in line for funding. Meanwhile he now writes features he can direct himself and has two in post-production, soon to be released: "SIBLINGS" - a dark comedy about family, and "A NATURAL DISORDER OF THINGS" - a coming of age drama about a high school senior with a new Autism diagnosis |
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Ron Placone, write. Actor. Filmmaker
Ron Placone is a comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He has been seen on The Discovery Channel, CrossTalk, FreeSpeechTV, Redacted Tonight, TMZ, and more. His debut feature film, Left At Wall, is running the festival and screening circuit and will be digitally released later in 2024. He co-produced the pilot, Loner , the webseries, Frank Azurri, and the webcomic, Lucy & Ron. He can be seen regularly on Status Coup News. He hosts the podcast, 1000 w/ Ron Placone. His debut album, "Agnostic Holiday" is in rotation on SiriusXM. |
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Brian Connors, director, screenwriter, producer
Brian has had a long career as an actor which eventually evolved into writing, directing and producing. Brian appears opposite KEVIN COSTNER in the Disney film MCFARLAND USA. He's been featured on LAW & ORDER, LAW & ORDER SVU, THE RICHES, THE HANDLER and CLOSE TO HOME working in scenes with Eddie Izzard, Minnie Driver, Sam Waterson, Mariska Hargitay, Chris Noth and Jerry Orbach among others.
Brian Connors recently wrote and directed the feature film SENIOR ENTOURAGE starring ED ASNER, HELEN REDDY, CHARLIE ROBINSON, MARION ROSS & MARK RYDELL. SENIOR ENTOURAGE is also being "pitched" as a TV series |
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Alateng Ula, Mongolian Wrestler , Screenwriter, Author
Alateng Ula is a Mongolian wrestler, representative inheritor of the national intangible culture Shalibor wrestling, originator of Shalibor wrestling at home and abroad. Shalibor wrestling Experts and folklorists. Completed more than 60 projects in total, the first person in the country to win the Shalibor wrestling gold belt (Burigude title), one of the top 100 national intangible cultural heritage figures of the year in 2023, and the legal representative of Alxa Left Banner Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance and Protection Base . He has successively edited and published books such as "Shalibor Wrestling", "Introduction to Shalibor Wrestling", "The Biography of Master Anjiu", and "Boke Xialibin" in Mongolian and Chinese languages, among which he wrote "The Development Direction of Shalibor Style Wrestling" The paper was included in the "Collection of National Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Papers". In 2009, the paper "Shalibor is the root of Mongolian wrestling and the model for many wrestlings in the world" won the international gold medal. |
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Botong Liu, Screenwriter, Director
Botong is a raising director and screenwriter in China. In 2024, he will serve as deputy director in the large-scale historical anti-war drama "The Position".In 2023, the script "Backfire" won the Outstanding Venture Capital Project Award at the Hong Kong Youth Film Festival;In 2023, he served as assistant director in the urban emotional drama "My Battle with Marriage";In 2022, he served as assistant director in the large-scale historical war drama "Snow and Ice Knife Company"; In 2019, he served as a director assistant in the large-scale revolutionary historical drama "Dawn in the East". In 2017, he directed the suspense thriller film "The Injustice" as director and screenwriter |
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Shane Avila, Screenwriter, Producer
Shane Avila is known for Shovel (2019), The Pick Up and Do It or Die! (2017). He is the CEO/Executive Producer/Screenwriter at Rainman Entertainment LLC, Worked with famed director Jorn H. Winther to write the script based off of the true story of the kidnapping of socialite Elaine Chaddick of 1979. Worked on the set to help the director, crew, and producers working multiple tasks. Played an FBI agent in this feature named "Marcus" the FBI technician |
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