A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Helsinki, Finland
Born:
February 18, 1971
Saara Eliisa Saarela is Finnish film director. She graduated from Université de Paris as Master of Arts in 1996. She is also professor of film directing at Aalto University.
Casting:
2009 Twisted Roots
Director:
2000 Kuningas Hidas
2002 Stripping
2006 Les Européens
2009 Twisted Roots
2010 La Vénitienne
2022 Memory of Water
Writer:
2000 Kuningas Hidas
2002 Stripping
2006 Les Européens
2009 Twisted Roots
2010 La Vénitienne
2022 Memory of Water
Director:
2007 Poikkeustila
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.