A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Patricia Gruben is an American-born filmmaker who taught film studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada until 2018. As a director, she has made four feature films and several shorts. Gruben has worked in many different positions within the film industry, from being a property master to directing a feature film. In 2015, Gruben was the recipient of the Teamsters 155 Woman of the Year Award given by Vancouver Women in Film and TV.
Director:
1978 The Central Character
1982 Sifted Evidence
1984 Low Visibility
1990 Deep Sleep
1993 Ley Lines
2023 Heart of Gold
Editor:
1978 The Central Character
1982 Sifted Evidence
1984 Low Visibility
1990 Deep Sleep
1993 Ley Lines
2023 Heart of Gold
Set Decoration:
1978 The Central Character
1981 Heartaches
1982 Sifted Evidence
1984 Low Visibility
1990 Deep Sleep
1993 Ley Lines
2023 Heart of Gold
Writer:
1978 The Central Character
1981 Heartaches
1982 Sifted Evidence
1984 Low Visibility
1990 Deep Sleep
1993 Ley Lines
2023 Heart of Gold
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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.