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Diana is a leading health and wellness expert, businesswoman, published author, and has worked with actors/actresses and models for over 25 years.
Diana holds a business degree and is currently Business Affairs for Pictures in Paradise, an award winning film production company that has brought in over $280 million of production. During Diana’s time with Pictures in Paradise, the company has produced many successful films including Misconduct starring Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins and Josh Duhamel, The Railway Man, starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth, and Daybreakers, Starring Willem Dafoe, Sam Neil and Ethan Hawke, just to name a few.
Alongside her work in the film industry, Diana has authored two books on health and nutrition. In 2012 Diana wrote Yes You Can: The Achievable Diet. A Guide to a Positive Mindset and Permanent Weight Loss. She collaborated with Dr.Naras Lapsys (BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD), a recognized expert in medicine and nutrition. The book presents a comprehensive strategy for identifying and changing unhealthy eating habits, overcoming sugar addiction and forging a responsible, empowered relationship with food. Following this, Diana authored Italy Lite where, for the first time ever, Diana brought together 20 of Italy’s greatest Michelin star chefs to share their best traditional recipes and to create their own unique lite version of these dishes. Diana is currently working on her third book Box Like a Pro, Look Like a Diva in cooperation with Kwame Davis, a New York City trainer to celebrities and Victoria’s Secret models.
Diana has also written for many renowned publications including The Huffington Post, Health Medicine Network, American Counsel of Exercise, Fitbe, Lifescript, Metro, Fox News Magazine, LovingYou, and has been interviewed for RadioMD and Flourish Magazine.
Along with her Business degree, Diana also holds two Masters in Neuro Linguistics Programming (US and Australia) from the Institute of Human Technology and Global NLP Training. Diana is also a fully qualified Personal Trainer with a Masters in Personal Training from the Australian Fitness Institute. In the early 2000 she created ‘Counseling on the Move’. The first of its kind, this program integrated traditional ‘on the couch’ counseling and gym workouts. It proved to be a breakthrough in weight management therapy.
Kman is a Sports Scientist, a World Taekwon-Do Champion and a Trainer to entertainers, performers, actors, stuntman, elite athletes, national sporting teams and Olympians.
With a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science and over 33 years of fitness and personal training experience, Kman specialises in preparing his clients to look and perform to their best whether that be for movies, stunts, performances, competitions or sport.
Practicing what he preaches, he is 8 times World Taekwon-Do Champion, 18 times World Taekwon-Do Championship Medallist and 14 times National Champion in Taekwon-Do , Judo, Kickboxing, Weaponry and Martial Arts. With his added experience as a competitive bodybuilder and preparing his competitors for bodybuilding competitions, not only can he prepare his clients for a physical performance, but can also transform their body to a desired bodyshape and look for a movie role or sporting performance.
He has been the fight choreographer and a performer in the international stage show hit Galaxies and trained the stuntman, performers and acrobats in fighting and weaponry. Being the trainer for the Movie World Stunt Team, he has trained many stuntman and performers for specific stunts and performances. Having being a training consultant to movies such as the Railway Man, he can physically prepare actors and actresses specifically for their role and look.
His extensive training experience and expertise extends back to when he was the trainer for the Australian Institute of Sport and owned Sports Elite, a company which specialised in physically preparing elite athletes for competition. He has trained many Olympic Gold Medallists, World Champions, and National Sporting teams. Some of these include the Australian Kayak team; Australian Baseball team; Australian Sports Aerobic team; Olympic Medallists in kayaking, swimming and baseball; World Champions in taekwon-Do, karate, boxing, bodybuilding, golf and squash; and many national sporting champions including training US major league baseball players from the Milwaukee Brewers. He has also worked with and trained national organisations such as the air force, police force, air sea rescue, fire department, heart foundation, health department and many business corporations.
Being a sports scientist with a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science, a published researcher, an international fitness presenter, a national presenter for the Harvard Good Health Management Program and founder of the MAX International College for Fitness Professionals, Kman is committed to using Exercise Science as the foundation of the MovieMax Fitness training programs and principles to ensure that their actors, stuntman and clients achieve their desired optimum results in the safest, fastest, most effective way possible.
After finishing 2 university degrees and a PhD in Medicine, Dr Naras Lapsys began his career as a scientist in a leading medical institute, searching for the genes of obesity and diabetes. After nearly 10 years of research he came to the conclusion that the ‘quick fix’ pill was still a long way off and that nutrition and lifestyle would always hold the key to better health. With that in mind he went back to university, completed a Masters degree in Nutrition and became an Accredited Practising Dietitian. By combining all his years of knowledge and a genuine passion for good health, Dr Naras Lapsys founded The Body Doctor.
Naras is a consultant dietitian to various sporting groups, has helped to create many corporate health programs and has established the first Body Doctor practice for one-on-one consultations in Sydney’s Bondi Junction.
He is a member of the Dietitians Association of Australia, DAA and Sports Dietitians Australia, SDA.
Naras also plays a role in the External Advisory Committee for the Wollongong University Dietetic Program and the Obesity Management GP Education Advisory Group for iNova Pharmaceuticals.
Naras is also on the Expert Advisory Panel for childhood nutrition, with the trusted parenting resource, Babycenter.
Naras has addressed national and international audiences, has been published in leading medical and scientific journals and is frequently quoted in the media.
Sounding more like an American these days, it’s hard to believe that Daniel
Bernhardt was born and raised in Bern, Switzerland. Even more surprising is the fact
that a guy who got his degree in architectural engineering, could wind up co-starring
alongside Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburn as “Agent Johnson” in the highly
successful sequel...The Matrix Reloaded.
After completing his studies in Switzerland, Bernhardt decided to see a bit of the
world. While living in Paris he was discovered by a modeling agent and found himself
in demand by such leading designers as Montana, Mugler, Ferre and Versace to
name a few. His image was soon gracing the pages of the world’s top magazines
and editor’s in New York took notice.
While living in Manhattan, shooting spreads for everyone from Vogue, to Elle, to
GQ, he got a call that would inadvertently change his life. Famed photographer and
director, Bruce Weber, was filming a television spot for Versace. During auditions,
Weber was so impressed with Bernhardt’s natural screen presence and his
exceptional skill as a martial artist, he immediately cast him as to co-star in “Looking
for Kicks.” A new career was just around the corner.
The movie producer that had launched Jean-Claude Van Damme's career was
looking for a new action star. After years of searching he finally got his man. Daniel
was signed on as the lead in Bloodsport II. The film was released theatrically in the
U.S. the following year. Having successfully made the part his own, he went off to Sri
Lanka to complete the next installment.
Bernhardt spring boarded his Bloodsport notoriety into starring rolls in Perfect
Target, Bloodsport III and IV, Global Effect, Strike Force, Tornado and the Sony
feature film The Cutter with Chuck Norris.
Bernhardt also starred in the television series Mortal Kombat Conquest as “Siro”,
produced by Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, based on the popular video game
and movie franchise and in the television network series "Desire" for My Network.
His enormous drive and his desire to constantly grow and improve have led him to
study with an impressive list of tutors. Acting coach Cameron Thor, dialect coach
Robert Easton and martial arts instructor Grand Master Hee Il Cho.
After having co-written his first script, The Lightning Kid, Daniel went on to develop
Fetch and Bloodsport: New Beginning to add the title of producer and director to his
resume.
Bernhardt passion for cinema led him behind the camera writing, directing and
producing his first short film entitled "Fetch", that has been excepted into twelve
International film festivals, including the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the
Raindance Film Festival in London, the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
and won the Santa Monica International Film Festival for best short film and won the
Gold Ticket audience award at the Long Island Film Expo.
Daniel’s many accomplishments worldwide have led to a certain amount of notoriety
in his homeland of Switzerland. Carl-F- Bucherer the renowned Swiss Watch maker
took notice and signed Bernhardt to be there international Ambassador for the brand.
Daniel has been published in the Swiss press for years, such as Blick, Schweizer
Illurstrierte, 10 for 10 and was named one of the 100 most influential Swiss in 2003.
Bernhardt, who’s also a passionate photographer, shot the last four International
campaigns for the renowned European fashion line Strellson. Bernhardt also just
finished shooting Swiss Celebrities for an AD campaign for the launch of the new Alfa
Romeo "Mito" in Switzerland.
After having tried his hand behind the camera, in 2009 Bernhardt went back in front
of the camera and was cast to star in the television presentation "Dragonfire" by
writer, director and producer Michael Campus. The show is scheduled to start
production in 2011 in Asia.
Next up for Bernhardt, he is currently in the process of producing the reinvention of
the new Bloodsport movie and he’s developing his short film Fetch into a feature film.
Bernhardt is also producer on his first feature film entitled “Elephant White”, written
by Kevin Bernhardt, starring two time Academy Awards nominee Djimon Hounsou
and Golden Globe winner Kevin Bacon, directed by Prachya Pinkaew, financed by
Millinium Films. The film was shot in Thailand March 2010.
Bernhardt starred as the main villain in monster/Horror film entitled Blood is Blood,
AKA Lockjaw, where he played the monster. The Film was produced by the
legendary Sid Scheinberg and Paul Mason. The film is scheduled to be released later
this year.
Bernhardt recently starred on Parker, directed by acclaimed director Taylor
Hackford, starring Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez and Nick Nolte. Bernhardt co-
starred playing to role of the Hitman who goes after Parker.
Bernhardt has been focusing more on Action Acting and Stunts in the past three
years. He’s been working on the cult hit “Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, where he
played Tribute from District 9, Ninja Turtles produced by Michael Bay, where he
played a Foot Soldier, and recently starred again opposite Keanu Reeves in the high
octane thriller “John Wick”, where he played the Russian heavy Kirill. The film was
directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch.