A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Amira Mor is an internationally renowned belly dancer, certified fitness instructor, and founder of The Amira Mor International Entertainment Company. Amira has received worldwide acclaim as a performer, choreographer, producer and director, developing state of the art techniques. Highlights of her career include choreographing the dancers of the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, entertaining the troops in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, performing with such legends as Ornette Coleman, Sting, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, comedian Jackie Mason and actress Jane Fonda, The Prime Minister of Jordan, Dr. Abdel Salam Majali, The Prince and Princess of Morocco, the United Nations, The Turkish Embassy, New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg and an Off Broadway production in Dicapo Opera Theater, numerous national television and movies such as “sex in the city 2 “.
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.