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Dominic Sena (born April 26, 1949) is an American film director. Sena was born in Niles, Ohio. As one of the founders of Propaganda Films, Sena worked primarily in music videos early in his career. Sena directing several of Janet Jackson’s image re-defining music videos from her Rhythm Nation 1814 album. In 1993, Sena directed his first film, Kalifornia, which starred future Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and David Duchovny. While the film garnered good reviews, it would be seven more years before Sena stepped behind the camera again.
In 2000, Sena reappeared with the film Gone in 60 Seconds featuring Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, and Robert Duvall. The following year brought Swordfish starring Hugh Jackman, John Travolta, Don Cheadle and Halle Berry.
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ANTHONY THOMAS’ BIOGRAPHY:
Discovered by Janet Jackson in his early 20′s, he catapulted to worldwide fame for his groundbreaking choreography on Jacksons, Rhythm Nation 1814 album. An overnight sensation, Thomas’ Rhythm Nation 1814 tele-musical won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video, MTV’s Music Award for Best Choreography and the MTV Vanguard Award. The video is ranked on MTV and VH1’s lists of Greatest 100 Videos of all time.
His innovative gift of versatility and physical rhythm, earned him an honored place in music history when he combined popping and locking for the first time. The marriage of these two forms of street dance changed the direction of hip hop and created a standard of excellence in the world that has yet to be matched since Rhythm Nation.
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“Velvet Rope” Album Release Party September 3, 1997
Chelsea Piers New York City, New York USA
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“Velvet Rope” Album Release Party September 3, 1997
Chelsea Piers New York City, New York USA
Janet Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley
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“Young Love” was the first single from Janet Jackson’s self-titled debut album. The song peaked at #64 on the Pop Charts and #6 on the R&B Charts, becoming her first top ten R&B single. For the first time, Jackson included the song on her 2008 “Rock Witchu Tour”.
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Janet Jackson is the self-titled debut album by American recording artist Janet Jackson, released in 1982 by A&M Records. Jackson’s career as a recording artist was established by her father and manager Joseph Jackson, who arranged her recording contract with A&M Records. Jackson, at the time, was not committed to a career in music and did not contribute much effort to the project.
The album’s musical content contains bubblegum pop mixed with elements of disco and funk. Songwriters Angela Winbush and René Moore contributed to much of the album’s lyrics. Moore and Winbush share production credits with and Foster Sylvers, Jerry Weaver, and Bobby Watson. Janet Jackson debuted at number six on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and its single “Young Love” peaked at number six on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
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Music video filmography
“Buzz” Pop’s Cool Love
“Sweet Bird of Truth,” The The (1986)
“Madonna of the Wasps” Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians (1989)
“One Long Pair Of Eyes” Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians (1989)
“You Don’t Have to Worry,” En Vogue (1990)
“Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)” De La Soul (1991)
“Love Conquers All” ABC (1991)
“Wicked As It Seems,” Keith Richards (1992)
“Moira Jane’s Cafe” Definition of Sound (1992)
“Constant Craving,” k.d. lang (1992)
“Free Your Mind,” En Vogue (1992)
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Mark Romanek (born September 18, 1959) is an award-winning American music video director who has also moved into directing theatrical films.
Early Years
Romanek was born in Chicago, Illinois. He credits seeing Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968, at the age of nine, and again during its rerelease in 1973, with inspiring him to become a film director. Romanek experimented with Super 8 and 16mm film as a teenager while attending New Trier East, a progressive public high school north of Chicago that offered a four-year film production and theory program. At New Trier, Romanek studied under Kevin Dole, a local filmmaker who was already creating a form of music video on his own in the mid 1970′s. Romanek subsequently attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and graduated from its Roy H. Park School of Communications with a degree in cinema and photography.
Music video career
After a few years writing screenplays, Romanek decided to focus on music videos and signed on with Satellite Films, a boutique division of Steve Golin’s Propaganda Films. His subsequent work has come to be regarded as among the best of the medium. He has worked with many top-selling recording artists from different genres of popular music, and his videos have been given credit for making stars out of some.
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