A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Born:
January 1, 1978
Died:
February 1, 2000
Giovanni Quiroz was a shooting star. In a couple of years, he went from being a simple boy who was a vice shooter and thief in the Lovaina neighborhood of Medellín to parading down the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival in France in an elegant dress. Born in Medellin, he achieved fame when he played the character of El Zarco in the movie "La vendedora de rosas". After making several contacts, Gaviria and his friends were looking for an acting scholarship for him to study in Spain, but in those days he was killed in a street in his neighborhood, Lovaina.
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.