Sharon Lopatka Sharon Rina Lopatka (September 20, 1961 October 16, 1996) was an Internet entrepreneur in Hampstead, Maryland, United States, who was killed in a case of apparent consensual homicide. Lopatka was tortured and strangled to death on October 16, 1996, by Robert Frederick Glass, a computer analyst from North Carolina. Apparently, the purpose was mutual sexual gratification. The case became the earliest widely publicized example of a consensual homicide mediated through the use of the Internet. Sharon_Lopatka
Phaedra Cinema Phaedra Cinema was a U.S. distributor of independent and international films. The company was created by filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka in 1996 and its first release was the comedy Sudden Manhattan, directed by and starring Adrienne Shelley.Phaedra Cinema’s most notable releases included Fever Pitch starring Colin Firth, La Separation starring Isabelle Huppert, a restored edition of Jimmy Wang Yu's 1975 Master of the Flying Guillotine, and two Nikkatsu Roman porno films, Masaru Konuma's Wife to be Sacrificed (1974) and Noboru Tanaka's A Woman Called Sada Abe (1975), on a theatrical double-bill. Phaedra_Cinema
Joel Bachar Joel S. Bachar (b. 1967 in Glenridge, New Jersey) founded Blackchair Productions in Seattle in 1992. Since 1996, Blackchair Productions has curated and promoted Independent Exposure ; a monthly Microcinema screening that has programmed over 2000 short works to audiences in 45 countries plus Palestine and Antarctica. Joel_Bachar