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- Director
- Editor
- Writer
Mariya Saakyan was born on 24 July 1980 in Yerevan, USSR [now Armenia]. She was a director and editor, known for Proshchanie (2004), Alaverdi (2012) and Entropiya (2012). She was married to Jeff Kalousdian. She died on 28 January 2018 in Moscow, Russia.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
- Producer
Henrik Wadling was born on 2 June 1967 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for Natten inuti (1989), Mara (2013) and Evil Ed (1995). He died on 28 January 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Darmasena Pathiraja was born on 28 March 1943 in Kandy, British Ceylon. He was a director and writer, known for Metamophorsis (2014), Eya Dan Loku Lamayek (1975) and Mathu Yam Dawasa (2002). He was married to Malani Kusumalatha Pathiraja. He died on 28 January 2018 in Kandy, Sri Lanka.- Zoltán József Tóth was born on 29 January 1967 in Várpalota, Hungary. He died on 28 January 2018 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Gene Sharp was born on 21 January 1928 in North Baltimore, Ohio, USA. He died on 28 January 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Cinematographer
Jerry Lentz was an actor and director, known for The Visitor (2016), Slash Her (2015) and Monsters, Creatures & FX Artists of Horror, Fantasy & Sci-fi (2015). He was married to Jessica Lentz. He died on 28 January 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Claudia Look-Hirnschal was an actress, known for Mozartbrot (2005), MDR Garten (2000) and MDR um 4 (2014). She died on 28 January 2018 in Thuringia, Germany.
- Coco Schumann was born on 14 May 1924 in Berlin, Germany. He was married to Gertraud Goldschmidt. He died on 28 January 2018 in Berlin, Germany.
- Rolf Lacour was born on 26 June 1937 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He died on 28 January 2018 in Köllerbach, Saarland, Germany.
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Producer, writer and director Jacquie Jones was born on April 28, 1965 in Washington, D.C. to Humphrey and Claire Antoine Jones. She grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1987, Jones graduated with her B.A. degree in English, with a minor in African American Studies, from Howard University. She went on to receive her M.A. degree in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University in 1995.
Upon graduation from Stanford University, Jones was hired as a producer for the Public Broadcasting Station, WGBH, in Boston. In 1999, she was appointed senior vice president of ROJA Productions, where she worked until 2003. From 2001 to 2003, Jones updated all existing media, as well as created new installations for the collection of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Then, in 2005, she was hired as the executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium, where she established herself as a leader in the evolving digital media landscape with projects including the Katrina Project, the Ford Foundation-funded Masculinity Project, and NMI: Africa. Jones also founded the New Media Institute in 2006, and the Public Media Corps in 2009.
Jones has produced Africans in America, Matters of Race and 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School for PBS, Behind Closed Doors: Sex in the 20th Century for Showtime, and The World Before Us for the History Channel. Her other film credits have included acting as an executive producer on Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, Black Folk Don't, and multiple episodes of the television series Independent Lens and P.O.V..
Jones has also published writings in numerous anthologies and periodicals, including the anthologies Black Popular Culture and Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography, as well as The Huffington Post. From 1989 until 1993, she was the editor of Black Film Review, a quarterly journal about African Diaspora filmmaking. Jones has received two Peabody Awards, a Gracie Award and was selected as a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. She was also a scholar-in-residence at the American University, and has served on the boards of directors of the Integrated Media Association, California Newsreel, the Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University, and Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media. Jones serves on the community advisory board of WHUT-TV at Howard University.
Jones lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Grant Clark. They have one daughter.
Jacquie Jones was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on October 21, 2013.- Nico Ter Linden was born on 26 July 1936 in Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands. He died on 28 January 2018 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Barbara Walkówna was born on 5 January 1933 in Swietochlowice, Slaskie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Szarada (1977), Kalosze szczescia (1958) and Popielec (1984). She was married to Józef Zbiróg. She died on 28 January 2018 in Skolimów, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Sound Department
- Music Department
Bhanu Gupta was born on 12 December 1930 in Rangoon, Burma. He is known for Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime (1978), Sanam Teri Kasam (1982) and Chann Pardesee (1981). He died on 28 January 2018 in Mumbai, India.