Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Jesse E. Hobson
Jesse Edward Hobson( May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955.
Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Fast Forward (film)
Fast Forward is a 1985 dance film directed by Sidney Poitier.
In the film, a dance troupe from Ohio comes to New York to compete in a national talent competition.
The 1987 Bollywood film "Dance Dance" and the 2003 Tamil film "Boys" were inspired by this film.
Hilary Mason (data scientist)
Hilary Mason is an American data scientist and the founder of technology startup Fast Forward Labs as well as Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners.
She was the Chief Scientist at bitly.
On September 7, 2017, Cloudera announced that it had acquired Fast Forward Labs, and that Mason would become Cloudera's Vice President of Research.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor and film director.
He received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, winning one, the first black actor to win that award.
He was also nominated six times for each of the Golden Globe for Best Actor and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award
(BAFTA) for Best Foreign Actor, winning each once.
From 1997 to 2007, he served as the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan.
His family lived in the Bahamas but Poitier was born in Miami while they were visiting, thereby acquiring American citizenship.
He grew up in the Bahamas, moving to New York when he was 16.
He joined the North American Negro Theatre landing his breakthrough film role in 1950 as an incorrigible high school student in "Blackboard Jungle" (1955).
In 1958 Poitier starred with Tony Curtis in the critically acclaimed "The Defiant Ones" as chained-together convicts who escape and must cooperate.
Each received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, with Poitier's being the first for a black actor, as well as nominations for the BAFTAs, which Poitier won.
In 1964 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in "Lilies of the Field" (1963) in which he played a handyman who stays with and helps a group of German-speaking nuns build a chapel.
Poitier also received critical acclaim for "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961) and "A Patch of Blue" (1965).
He continued to break ground in three successful 1967 films, each dealing with issues of race and race relations: "To Sir, with LoveGuess
Who's Coming to Dinner", and "In the Heat of the Night",
making him the top box-office star of that year.
He received nominations for the Golden Globes and BAFTAs for the latter film, but not for the Oscars, likely due to vote splitting between his roles.
After twice reprising his Virgil Tibbs character from "In the Heat of the Night" and acting in a variety of other films, including the thriller "The Wilby Conspiracy" (1975), with Michael Caine, Poiter turned to acting/directing with the action-comedies "Uptown Saturday Night" (1974), "Let's Do It Again" (1975), and "A Piece of the Action" (1978), all co-starring Bill Cosby.
During a decade away from acting he directed the successful" Stir Crazy" (1980) starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, among other films.
He returned to acting in the late 1980s and early 1990s in a few thrillers and television roles.
Poitier was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.
In 2009 Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor.
In 2016, he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for outstanding lifetime achievement in film.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Poitier 22nd on their list of Greatest Male Stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
In 2002 Poitier was chosen to receive an Academy Honorary Award, in recognition of his "remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being".
Nancy Stohlman
Nancy Stohlman( born August 13, 1973), is an American flash fiction writer, musician and performer.
She is the author of 2 flash novels, 1 collection of flash fiction, and the editor of 4 anthologies, as well as one of the founding members of Fast Forward Press.
Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies both nationally and internationally.
Her latest books include" Searching for Suzi: a flash novel"( Monkey Puzzle Press, 2009)," Fast Forward: The Mix Tape"( Fast Forward Press, 2010)," The Monster Opera"( Bartleby Snopes Press, 2013), and" The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories"( Pure Slush Press, 2014).
She is also a founding member and the lead singer of the lounge metal band, Kinky Mink.
Dance Dance (film)
Dance Dance is an Indian Bollywood dance film released on 29 May 1987, directed and produced by Babbar Subhash.
The film is a musical and stars Mithun Chakraborty, Smita Patil and Mandakini in lead roles.
It also stars Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor and Om Shivpuri in supporting roles.
It is about a brother and sister who try to find success and become big singers.
Several scenes follow very closely those from the film" Fast Forward", directed by Sidney Poitier.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film Fast Forward (Film)?
Answer: Miami