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The Panel Speakers
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STEPHEN DAVID BROOKS; Director/Screenwriter
Stephen David Brooks is a filmmaker with well‐honed technical and creative prowess. Having started his career in Visual Effects, Stephen turned his creative talents to writing and eventually directing. Mentored early on by VFX legends (and Oscar winners) John Dykstra and Richard Edlund his path to Directing came through the large-scale studio films. Over the years Stephen has written scripts also directed many of them, such as “THE MANGLER”, “SPIDERS” and “SPIDERS 2”; “ THE RAVEN” (for legendary producer Harry Alan Towers); Stephen King’s “THE MIST” for director Tobe Hoope; Avi Lerner’s “Nu Image”; Avi Lerner ‘s “AIR PANIC”. His own films “HEADS N TAILZ; “FLYTRAP´ have win many awards in the film festivals worldwide. |
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Pamela D. Torrance, Screenwriter, filmmaker
Pamela D. Torrance is a scientist, salesperson and storyteller who combines her business background with her passion for screenwriting, filmmaking and producing content to support women empowerment. She is the filmmaker behind the award-winning pro-choice documentary 'WE'RE NOT GOING BACK!', new pro-choice comedy web-series Pyrrha & Pandora, and the founder of The HisTerical Society, a social welfare organization which is placing election ads in states with abortion measures this November. She is also the executive producer of 'On the Mountain', a romantic short film that won two awards at the Independent Shorts Awards in 2021 |
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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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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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