Add full team bios and update creator section with PDF content
- Creator: Replace placeholder bio with Michelle Sam's full bio from deck (filmography, training, awards, Out The Box Creative) - Team: Add names, roles, and full bios for Adesuwa McCalla (Producer), Apoorva Charan (Producer), and Mike Abrantie (Producer) - Add CSS for team card text styling Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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margin-bottom: 1rem;
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.team-name {
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font-family: 'Bebas Neue', sans-serif;
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font-size: 1.4rem;
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letter-spacing: 0.06em;
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margin-bottom: 0.2rem;
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}
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.team-role {
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font-size: 0.8rem;
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color: var(--ghana-gold);
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letter-spacing: 0.1em;
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text-transform: uppercase;
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margin-bottom: 1rem;
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.team-bio {
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font-size: 0.85rem;
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color: var(--text-secondary);
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line-height: 1.7;
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text-align: left;
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@media (max-width: 768px) {
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.team-grid {
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grid-template-columns: 1fr;
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<div class="creator-section reveal">
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<img src="img/michelle-sam.jpg" alt="Elle — Writer and Creator" class="creator-photo" loading="lazy">
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<div class="creator-info">
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<h3 class="creator-name">Elle</h3>
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<p class="creator-role">Writer · Creator · Visionary</p>
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<p class="creator-bio">Elle is a storyteller, artist, and cultural architect working at the intersection of Afrofuturism, grounded sci-fi, and intimate family drama. Drawing from deep personal experience—loss, resilience, and the radical act of remembering—she crafts narratives that challenge who gets to be saved, and why. <em>The Last Draw</em> is her debut feature project, born from the belief that the future belongs to the unseen, the underestimated, and the unapologetically authentic.</p>
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<h3 class="creator-name">Michelle Sam</h3>
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<p class="creator-role">Writer · Director</p>
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<p class="creator-bio">Michelle Sam is a writer, award-winning filmmaker, actress, and multimedia artist. Her work often explores the intersection of identities and stories in a visceral manner. The daughter of Ghanaian immigrants raised in Ireland, Michelle began her training at the Gaiety School of Acting before moving to Chicago, where she studied at Second City before turning her talents to filmmaking. She holds a Sociology and Visual and Dramatic Arts degree from Rice University.</p>
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<p class="creator-bio" style="margin-top: 1rem;">She wrote for Jason Katims' show on Amazon, <em>As We See It</em>, about neurodiversity, as well as <em>Hardly Working</em> on Paramount Plus. Her feature script, <em>Sankofa</em>, was selected for the 2018 Outfest Screenwriting Lab and her short film, <em>Black Boy Joy</em>, won an NAACP 2020 Best Short Award and the Diversity in Cannes 2020 Short-Film Showcase. She also wrote and directed the short film <em>Missed Connections</em>, starring and executive produced by Angelica Ross (<em>Pose</em> on FX), winning numerous awards and screening at over 30 film festivals.</p>
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<p class="creator-bio" style="margin-top: 1rem;">In addition to creating film and TV, she cultivates immersive and interactive experiences and art installations that engage the nine senses through somatic experiencing, across the Black diaspora and in continental Africa under her name, Yaa Tabriwaa. She is also a co-founder of Out The Box Creative, a hybrid Ghanaian production company and artist collective based in Accra, Ghana.</p>
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</section>
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</div>
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<div class="team-grid reveal">
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<div class="team-card">
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<img src="img/team-1.jpg" alt="Team member" loading="lazy">
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<img src="img/team-1.jpg" alt="Adesuwa McCalla" loading="lazy">
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<h3 class="team-name">Adesuwa McCalla</h3>
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<p class="team-role">Producer</p>
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<p class="team-bio">Principal of literary management firm MetaMorphic Entertainment, where she identifies under-the-radar fresh voices that reflect different worlds and perspectives. Her clients' projects include the Oscar-nominated <em>Hotel Rwanda</em>, Emmy-winning <em>Star Trek: Picard</em>, as well as series <em>Found</em>, <em>All-American</em>, <em>Reasonable Doubt</em>, <em>Raising Kanan</em>, <em>Snowfall</em>, <em>13 Reasons Why</em>, <em>How to Get Away With Murder</em>, and <em>The Flash</em>. She previously worked at the BBC, ITV, Nickelodeon, and MTV, and shepherded groundbreaking series <em>Angel</em>, <em>Smallville</em>, and <em>Grounded for Life</em> at The WB.</p>
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<div class="team-card">
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<img src="img/team-2.jpg" alt="Team member" loading="lazy">
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<img src="img/team-2.jpg" alt="Apoorva Charan" loading="lazy">
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<h3 class="team-name">Apoorva Charan</h3>
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<p class="team-role">Producer</p>
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<p class="team-bio">An LA-based producer born in India, raised in Northern California. Her feature debut, <em>Joyland</em>, premiered at Cannes (2022), winning the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, the Queer Palm, and Best International Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. The film was Pakistan's first to make the Academy Awards shortlist. An alumnus of Columbia University's MFA Film program, she is a 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough, a Sundance Creative Producing Lab fellow, and has worked at Big Beach, Walt Disney Studios, and on Netflix's <em>Painkiller</em>. Her most recent film, <em>Take Me Home</em>, won AT&T's UnTold Stories at Tribeca (2025).</p>
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</div>
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<div class="team-card">
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<img src="img/team-3.jpg" alt="Team member" loading="lazy">
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<img src="img/team-3.jpg" alt="Mike Abrantie" loading="lazy">
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<h3 class="team-name">Mike Abrantie</h3>
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<p class="team-role">Producer</p>
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<p class="team-bio">A producer, visual artist, DJ, and philanthropist from the Southside of Chicago. Co-founder and Head of Content of Out The Box Creative Group. Growing up to immigrant parents, he honed his creative abilities early, utilizing his unique cultural worldviews as a backdrop informing his creative lens. His impact spans documentaries, award-winning short films, digital series, and music videos. He has helped launch platforms including Black Star Line Festival in Ghana and The XL Film Festival in Chicago, and has worked with artists such as Burna Boy, Vic Mensa, King Promise, and Sarkodie. He defines his work as thoughtfully disruptive, and realistically reflective of the black experience.</p>
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