A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Siege Ledesma graduated with a degree in Psychology and worked in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry for nine years. It was in this unlikely milieu that she found a passion for cinema. In 2012, she took a leap of faith—she quit her day job to focus on writing and directing her first feature length screenplay, SHIFT, which premiered at the 2013 Cinema One Film Festival, won Best Picture at the 2014 Osaka Asian Film Festival, and participated in over ten international film festivals with glowing reviews. Shift was also acquired and distributed in Japan by PicturesDept. In recent years, she has been involved in the writing and development of a few film and television advocacy projects—which included projects funded by the USAID and Missio Germany (International Catholic Missionary Organization). She is a Cinema One Originals Milestone Awardee and an Aning Dangal (National Award) recipient. Her memberships include the Network of Asian Fantastic Filmmakers (PIFAN), Talents Tokyo (Berlinale Talents) and Tribeca Film Institute Network Talent Lab (LPFF Edition). Her second feature film screenplay, CAT ISLAND, was one of the recipients of the 2016 Next Masters Script Development Grant of Tokyo Filmex and Talents Tokyo, and a recipient of the Aurora Producing Award at the TFI Network Talent Lab, Luang Prabang Film Festival, 2017. Siege currently works for Dreamscape Entertainment (a subsidIary of ABS-CBN Corporation) as a scriptwriter for an upcoming primetime soap opera that will feature one of the Philippines’ biggest television stars.
Director:
2013 Shift
Editor:
2013 Shift
2021 Black River
Music:
2013 Shift
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Producer:
2013 Shift
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Screenplay:
2013 Shift
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Story:
2013 Shift
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Writer:
2013 Shift
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2021 Black River
2022 Blue Room
Writer:
2022 The Goodbye Girl
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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.