Joshua Fredric Smith

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Joshua Fredric Smith (born c. 1981) is an American actor from Northern California. He played onscreen at the age of 12. His latest movie is Dam 999 ., [1] directed by Sohan Roy. [2]

Northern California Place in California, United States

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<i>Dam 999</i> 2011 film by Sohan Roy

Dam 999 is a 2011 3-D science fiction disaster film. It is an English language UAE–Indian co-production film produced by BizTV Network, UAE and directed by Sohan Roy. The film is based on the award-winning short documentary DAMs - The Lethal Water Bombs. and the Banqiao dam disaster of 1975 that claimed the lives of 250,000 people in China and anticipated calamity for outdated dams in the world. The film falls in the category of an emotional thriller. The ancient Indian concept of Navarasas, or the nine human emotions, are represented by an assortment of actors from India and Hollywood. The movie also portrays the concepts of kamasutra as well as lost love against the backdrop of the story of a dilapidated colonial dam.

Sohan Roy S K is an entrepreneur based at Sharjah. He is the founder chairman & CEO of Aries Group of Companies and a naval architect. Roy is also the director of the film DAM999 whose screenplay was added to the permanent core collection in library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Career

Joshua landed his first acting job through a . After that he was cast in several supporting roles in independent films, including Absolute Evil, a film starring David Carradine, Caravaggio: The Search and Born That Way. Since then, Joshua has appeared in various TV shows (Dirty Sexy Money, Greek), commercials and music videos, including starring in the New Kids on the Block "2 in the Morning" music video produced by Donnie Wahlberg. His most recent film credits include starring roles in Finding a Place and The Road to Freedom , the latter of which is an epic war tale based on true-life events. The Road to Freedom tells the account of two photojournalists who brave the deep jungles of war-torn Cambodia to get their story of despairing humanity during the 1972 Khmer Rouge terrorism. [3]

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The Road to Freedom is a 2010 war film directed by Brendan Moriarty in his directorial debut. The film is inspired by the true-life story of photojournalist Sean Flynn, the son of Errol Flynn, who disappeared with fellow photojournalist Dana Stone in Cambodia in 1970. Joshua Fredric Smith portrays Sean while Scott Maguire portrays Dana.

In his latest movie Dam 999, he plays Captain Fredrick Brown, a tongue-in-cheek Anglo-Indian mariner, an epitome of Hasya, the rasa of mirth and fun. In 2015 it was chosen to make part of the latest Avicii video "Broken Arrows".

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References

  1. "DAM 999 Official Website, Cast".
  2. "A Memorable Voyage through Waves". PR Log. May 10, 2010.
  3. Joshua Fredric Smith on IMDb