“BIG BEN” Howard
Benjamin Howard was born in 2028 in Sacramento, California Free State. Benjamin, also known as “Big Ben,” grew up with a fascination with biology. Later that fascination focused on sims and recorded senses and emotions. He got his Master’s in biochemistry at 23 at University of Southern California, and then continued there to study film. Graduating with a second Master’s degree in fine arts, he began a career with Pathfinder Multimedia. At thirty-one he directed back-to-back hits: Ghosts of 2012, a documentary on the rise of magic, which included some neverbefore-seen enhanced security camera footage from those days, and Yomi, a tear-jerking drama of a Japanese ork growing up fighting prejudice and gang pressures. Most of his films since then have been stunning documentaries or emotionally strong dramas, and he has won Oscars for best documentary and best picture of the year. There has been some controversy over some of the facts he’s presented in a few films, including the European-banned drama, NightWraith and the still-controversial trid documentary Anguish, based on events of the Night of Rage. His current film, A Fistful of Credsticks moves him into the action genre with heroine Jenny Freelance battling a faceless corporation tangled up in the recovery of the lost city of Atlantis.
Pandora
Pandora is a sim star for Pathfinder Multimedia. Her real name is Rebecca Oswick, and she was born in 2034 in Juneau, Athabaskan Council. Her parents are marine biologists. Her mother is from Quebec, so she learned some French. At the age of seventeen, she headed to San Francisco to look for acting work and hopefully build a career for herself. She worked as a hotel maid and as a courier until her big break at eighteen. Director Allan Ford took a chance, casting young Ms. Oswick as lead actress in a series adapted from classic Star Wars literature. The series was a huge success, and her talent was recognized. Rebecca changed her name to Pandora and continued to play strong female heroines. She’s broken out of the typecasting with the occasional drama and suspense-themed films . Her current film is A Fistful of Credsticks, a fantasy action film, where her character must find the artifacts that will lead her to the lost city of Atlantis before some corporation plunders it.