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Monday, October 11th, 2021 5:15 AM

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Possibly a fake/hoax IMDb acount for a documentary film director

So I came across this IMDb acount for a supposedely an Irish documentary film director Gabriel Murray https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1930683/ who makes movies for this company called Olympia Films (based on its muray.com profile it is supposedly based in Zurich and hired a couple of actors/film crew for the films The Lost World of the Crystal Skull (2008), and  Obama's Irish Roots (2011)

The reason I even learned about this IMDb account is because today this person and/or their representative added a Ukrainian movie, which  I accidentally stumbled upon, entiteled "Lost Heroes" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15613750/  ) that's supposedly coming out in Nov 2021 (even though its status is "in pre-production" and it is early Oct 2021, so this person has a like a month to shoot this live-action??? (that's how this person added it to IMDb, i.e., as a live-action, but given their other credits are documentary short/featue films, is this also supposed to be a documentary???). The credit says that this movie is being produced by a film company called "Olympia Films" and is a Ukraine prduction and the film is shot in Ukrainian.  The reason that I found this very suspicious is because there are literally zero news on the internet about a "Gabriel Murray" (or his name spelled in Ukrainian Ґабріель Мюррей) or his supposed film "Lost Heroes" (or its literal Ukrainian translation "Загублені герої"). In gereral this whole entry for this supposed Ukrainian-language movie "Lost Heroes" seemed quite hoaxy, given that Ukrainian media would've def. reported on a Nov. 2021 relase of a new Ukrainian movie, especially with an Irish director (that would be the first in the history of Ukrainian cinema).

Then I started looking at the other credits at this supposed Irish filmmaker Gabriel Murray https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1930683/ , and the rest of his credits ALSO seemed super fishy and rather hoaxy. This is what 10 min. of googling gave me:

The only 5 credits for this Gabriel Murray has and that have any mentioning on the internet are:

1) Director/writer credit for George Clooney's Irish Roots (2012; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2214926/ ; https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/george_clooneys_irish_roots  ; zero ratings on IMDb or RT)

2) Director/writer credit for Obama's Irish Roots (2009; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586259/  ; zero ratings on IMDb)

3) Writing credit for TV Mini-Series ‘Casanova’s Love Letters (2005, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450210/ it has 18 ratings on IMDb)

4) Director/writing credit for a TV movie (or documentary according to that better-new-world.com website)  The Lost World of the Crystal Skull (2008 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1273808/ ; 9 ratings on IMDb)

5) Co-writing credts So Long Marianne (2020; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13286368/ ; zero ratings on IMDb)

The only instances of something somewhat real-looking that I was able to find were:

In summary I think this is an eleborate hoax (including all supposed credits of this Gabriel Murray_. Literally everything I found on the internet related to this Gabriel Murray seemes fake/hoaxy/fishy. Starting from the "Cannes Film Festival' premiers to a Ukrainian film that will premier in a month on Nov 2021 and that no one in Ukraine has heard of (and no news papers reported about). But then again, I did find those two pictures of supposedly director Gabriel Murray, so maybe this is not a hoax?

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3 years ago

Oh so sorry but i am not sure about that... Thanks !! 

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