A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Catania, Italy
Born:
July 17, 1982
Stefania Spampinato was born in a small town at the base of the Etna Volcano in Belpasso, Sicily. She started dancing at 6 years old. Her passion for the arts at a young age was undeniable so her mother started making her dance costumes so she could afford her daughter's tuition. After graduating high school with honors, she did something unheard of in her small village: she bought a plane ticket & left. What came to follow was a wildly successful career in dance & theatre that lasted 10 years & included collaborations with Joquin Cortez, Kylie Minogue, Demi Lovato Leona Lewi, Neo, Take That, Nine, Samsung, Toyota, Target Wells Fargo, Adidas, Miller light, The VoiceUK, & X Factor US & UK In 2011 she made an even bolder move & bought a one way ticket to Los Angeles, CA. Upon landing she immersed herself in acting classes with Gary Imhoff (formally of the Beverly Hills Playhouse), Anthony Meindl, & Michelle Danner. Within 3 months she had representation commercially and theatrically.
Director:
2022 Zita Sempri
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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:
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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.