Edition 2019
It is a sociological fact that fantasy and horror cinema always enjoy a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic turmoil. Needless to say, the harvest is particularly rich in the current international climate! Italy comes up with not only extremists who seek refuge in an asylum centre (GO HOME), but also fascism incarnate (Il Duce Mussolini himself) making a comeback in the twenty-first century (I’M BACK)! The Scandinavians focus on cross-border terrorism (THE UNTHINKABLE) and climate disasters (THE QUAKE). The Koreans threaten to unleash the Third World War (TAKE POINT) while the Americans try to come to terms with their multiple mass murders (THE DEAD ONES). Dystopias are also doing well, thank you very much. LEVEL 16 confronts us with the cosmetic exploitation of orphans, ROCK STEADY ROW makes a devastating judgment about the American education system, and ANIARA plans a forced exodus to the planet Mars… For those who persist in believing in mankind, do not panic! The 37th edition of the BIFFF has a lot of big guns at the ready: PET SEMATARY, HELLBOY, IRON SKY 2 (THE COMING RACE), GRETA, ASSASSINATION NATION, THE BEACH BUM, DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE, and LITTLE MONSTERS. In total we will screen 97 films: ten world premieres, eleven international, and ten European premieres, with a selection that will take you to the far corners of India and Thailand! There is also news from the home front, with nine Belgian feature films or co-productions, including THE ROOM (with Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens), PLAY OR DIE, EXTRA ORDINARY, and THE HOLE IN THE GROUND. Among the numerous novelties is the very first ZOMBIFFF RUN, during which the participants run the risk of being eaten alive in an apocalyptic setting in the heart of Brussels! Another delicacy for demanding film lovers is the NANARLAND screening, a delicious double bill with SAMURAI COP and TROLL 2. Nostalgic souls will be delighted by the return of rafting-on-a-sea-of-humans, in collaboration with the Magic Land Theater. ’Nuff said! The rest of the program you’ll have to discover for yourself!
- DATES :
09/04 until 21/04/2019 - LOCATION : BOZAR
- # movies : 97
- # short : 97
- # previews : 178
- # tickets : 55.000
Opening
Closing
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International Thriller Competition-Thriller Award
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European Méliès Competition-Silver Méliès
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International Competition-Golden Raven
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SPAMFLIX ASIAN FILM AWARD-
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-Audience Award
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Critics Selection-Critics Award
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7th Orbit Competition-7th Orbit Award
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European Short Film Competition-Silver Melies
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Belgian Short Film Competition-Grand Prize
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Belgian Short Film Competition-La Trois Award
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Belgian Short Film Competition-SABAM Award
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Belgian Short Film Competition-Fedex Award
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Belgian Short Film Competition-Youth Award
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Belgian Short Film Competition-BeTV Award
European Méliès Competition
International Short Film Selection
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A PURGATORY STORY
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ALIEN DEATH FUCK (THEY CAME)
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ANACRONTE
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ANNA
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BIG PIG
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BLACK EYED CHILD
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BOY’S CLUB
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BRUNCH SHIFT MASSACRE
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CHICKENS
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CHOWBOYS
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CONCRETE
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DEAD NATURE
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DEAD TEENAGER SEANCE
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DELIRIA
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GETTING OFF EARLY
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GILTRUDE’S DWELLING
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GOD’S KINGDOM
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HERE THERE BE MONSTER
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IN A FOREIGN TOWN
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LA NOCHE
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LA SOLAPA
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LAST BREATH
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LAY THEM STRAIGHT
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LE BLIZZARD
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LENDEMAINS FUNÈBRES
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LOBISOME
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LOW TIDE
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MEDIUM
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MOON DROPS
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MORIRAN LOS NIÑOS
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MURDER BALLAD
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MY FIRST TIME
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NEVERENDING KITCHEN
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NYET!
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OCCUPANT
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ON THE OTHER SIDE
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RE: POSSESSED HOMES
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REGULATION
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SARAH
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SCARE CROW
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SNAGGLETOOTH
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SYNTHIA
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THE BLOODY BALLAD OF SQUIRT REYNOLDS
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THE CONGREGATION
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THE FRIEND
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THE KNOWLEDGE
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ULISES
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WHAT DO DRAGONS SEE IN GIRLS LIKE ME
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WICCA
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WOMEN UNSEEN
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XYX
7th Orbit Competition
SPAMFLIX ASIAN FILM AWARD
European Short Film Competition
International Thriller Competition
Belgian Short Film Competition
Critics Selection
International Interactive VR Competition
International Competition
Opening
Closing
37th Fantastic Night
Nordic Focus
Fantastic Kids 2019
Korean Hommage - Na Hong-Jin
NANARLAND
6th Mad In Belgium
5th Courts Mais Trash Screening
2nd VR Screening Room
BELGIAN SHORT FILM OUT OF COMPETITION
MOVIES
VR MOVIES
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Christian Alvart
To all the bigot parents that censor every little television program, except for...
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Hong-jin Na
In 2008, the BIFFF team came across THE CHASER and, to be fair, there was quiet ...
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Jean-Luc Couchard
Already at the age of 11, Jean-Luc Couchard imitated his family and had fun desi...
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Simon Abkarian
At the age of 7, Simon Abkarian followed his parents to Lebanon where he learned...
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Steve Johnson
Texan through and through, Steve Johnson grew up with the Universal monsters and...
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Udo Kier
Considered a giant of global cinema, Udo Kier is a real chameleon who slides thr...
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Alain Galand "Tom Pouce"
This die-hard fan has been a BIFFF-regular since the 2nd edition. He’s crazy e...
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Alessandra d’Angelo
Ex-lawyer at the Brussels’ bar association, professor in law, judicial journal...
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Alexandra Bortich
Alexandra Bortich was born in 1994 in Svetlogorsk, Belarus and grew up in Moscow...
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Andrew Desmond
After attending the ESRA (Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle) film ...
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Anne Bergfeld
Anne Bergfeld was raised among the Danish minority in Germany’s Flensburg and ...
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Antonio Tublen
Director, screenwriter, and composer Antonio Tublén made a series of short film...
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Arno Pluquet
Arno Pluquet (Tournai, 1986°) is a self-taught Belgian director, scriptwriter a...
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Astrid Jansen
Astrid Jansen holds a degree in journalism from IHECS and a master’s degree in...
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Ben Kent
Ben is a screenwriter, director, and producer with a large portfolio ranging fro...
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Berangere Mcneese
Bérangère McNeese is a Belgian and American actress and director. She has rece...
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Borys Lankosz
Director, screenwriter, maker of feature and documentary films. Graduate of the ...
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Byung-Woo Kim
Having swept the best new director awards in 2013 with his feature film debut TH...
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Cameron Macgowan
Cameron Macgowan is a Canadian filmmaker whose eccentric films have explored sub...
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Christian Volckman
Christian Volckman is a screen writer, a film director, and a painter. In 1999, ...
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Christophe Goffette
From his teenage years on, Christophe Goffette has been feeding on the multi-hea...
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D.C. Hamilton
D.C. Hamilton has directed over 50 projects including feature films, short films...
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Damien Granger
As first editor-in-chief of Mad Movies magazine, the genre film reference in Fra...
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David Didelot
Swimming through the mystical waters of fantasy cinema, jumping in the brooding ...
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David P.
David P. is a busybody who, in order to tirelessly create his paintings, sometim...
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Dick Tomasovic
From a young age, Dick Tomasovic has been passionate about theater and literatur...
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Ed Speleers
Ed Speleers can next be seen in the Starz! series OUTLANDER. Prior to beginning ...
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Esteve Soler
Esteve Soler (Barcelona, 1976) is one of the most translated and performed Spani...
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Fred Castadot
Author and scriptwriter Fred Castadot has a degree in Art History and Cinematogr...
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Gerard Quinto
Gerard Quinto (Manresa, 1978) is a film critic for La Vanguardia newspaper and a...
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Gökhan Kulak
He was performing as an extra in several short films and TV series. Gökhan is r...
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Grégory Cavinato
Grégory Cavinato was born in 1976 in Huy but has been living in Brussels for ma...
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Guillaume Schuermans
Guillaume Schuermans has been working in production since 2013. Alongside Benoit...
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Hae-Young Lee
Director LEE Hae-young first distinguished himself as a screenwriter with a gift...
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Hernan Findling
From his first feature film, CAUSA EFECTO (2001), Hernán Findling has been part...
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Jacopo Rondinelli
Director, designer and multimedia artist Jacopo Rondinelli starts his career at ...
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Jacques Kluger
28th March 1986, Brussels: the day I was born. That’s when everything began. A...
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Javier Ruiz Caldera
Very few show such a natural talent for comedy as this director from Barcelona, ...
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Jean-Louis Decoster
After studying art and communication in Brussels, Jean-Louis Decoster turned to ...
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Jelle Stroo
Jelle Stroo lives and works in Brussels as a director and editor. LA DEUXIEME is...
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Jeremy Kasten
Jeremy Kasten is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, b...
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Jérôme Collette
Jérôme Collette has worked for Ubisoft for over 20 years as a game designer, s...
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Julian Richards
His debut feature DARKLANDS won the 1997 Melies D’Argent for Best European Fan...
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Karin Michelsen
Karin, originally from Holstebro in the Danish countryside, plays the “simple ...
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Kyoung-tack Lim
LIM Kyung-tack (1970°) majored in Theatre & Film at Hanyang University. Sin...
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Lee Cronin
In 2013 Irish screenwriter-director Lee Cronin won the Silver Raven for Best Eur...
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Marine Haverland
Marine Haverland has been working in the film industry since 2008. In 2012, afte...
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Mathieu Mortelmans
Belgian director Mathieu Mortelmans, a graduate of the IAD film school, has dire...
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Michel Devillers
Born in Tournai on June 20th 1950, a painter and a sculptor, he is one of these ...
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Mothmeister
Mothmeister is the nonstop morphing alter ego of two artistic soul mates based i...
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Olga Gorodetskaya
Olga Gorodetskaya (Moscow, 1983°) graduated with a major in Directing, Cinema a...
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Patrick Duynslaegher
Born in 1953 in Ghent. Was Knack Focus’s film editor from 1972 to 2000 and Kna...
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Paul Young
Paul Young (1985°) has an American father and a Japanese mother. His graduation...
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Quarxx
Quarxx, a hyperactive and passionate multimedia artist, expresses his creativity...
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Samuel Tilman
Samuel Tilman is an author, director and producer. As a director, he made two am...
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Samy Netta
Sammy Netta was born in Liège (Belgium) in Novembe r Her enthusiasm for differe...
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Shugo Fujii
After graduating junior high school in Japan, Sugo Fujii moved to New York, wher...
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Sonny Laguna
Growing up together, Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund shared a passion for film th...
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Sophie Pendeville
Sophie Pendeville studies for business engineer in Mons. That doesn’t really s...
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Søren Juul Petersen
For 15 years, Søren worked in the outer circle of Danish film production as a p...
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Steve De Roover
De Roover has been a movie critic for a wide array of written and online publica...
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Talal Selhami
Parisian Talal Selhami makes his directing and writing debut with two theatre pl...
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Teal Greyhavens
Teal Greyhavens is a writer and creative director at Dark Corner, one of the wor...
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Timo Vuorensola
With his one meter 98, this native of the country of a thousand lakes is part of...
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Tommy Wiklund
Growing up together, Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund shared a passion for film th...
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Tony D'Aquino
Tony D’Aquino is an Australian writer and director. In another life, Tony was ...
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Wi Ding Ho
Wi Ding Ho is a Malaysia-born and Taiwan-based filmmaker. His feature debut PINO...
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Yirka De Brucker
Yirka De Brucker studied art and film theory at UGent. She has curated various e...
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Yoann Blanc
After graduating from the INSAS, Yoann Blanc decided to leave his native Haute-S...
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Yoav Paz
Yoav and Doron Paz started working in the film industry at an early age. After g...
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Zach Lipovsky
Twelve years ago, Adam and Zach took part in the TV reality game show ON THE LOT...
