A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Leslie Nipkow is an actor and writer, breast cancer survivor, and daughter of an Auschwitz survivor. As a result, she writes characters who battle overwhelming odds, whether it be institutionalized prejudice, a Cat 5 hurricane, or their own rogue cells. Most recently, she won the Black List x Hornitos "Take Your Shot" Fellowship Grant to direct a proof-of-concept short for her award-winning feature drama "Salt of the Earth." She is a 2021 Black List Google Assistant Storytelling Fellow, a Stowe Story Labs Development Grant recipient, an Athena TV Writers Lab Fellow, and has been published in the New York Times and O: the Oprah Magazine, among others. Leslie is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America and lives in New Orleans where she finds untold stories on every street corner. In her spare time, she boxes.
Writer:
1968 One Life to Live
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.