A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Valerie Halman has been working as a production manager in the film industry for more than twenty years. Features, TV Series, Mini Series and MOWs, she has worked with studios and independent producers alike. Before working full time in production, she attended the University of North Carolina as a Morehead Scholar and obtained a degree in communications. She has production managed more than thirty projects for television and theatres.
Production Assistant:
1992 Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Production Manager:
1992 Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
2000 Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
2000 Task Force: Caviar
2003 Finding John Christmas
2003 Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart
2004 Plain Truth
2004 She's Too Young
2005 The Dive from Clausen's Pier
2006 A Christmas Wedding
2006 Wedding Wars
2008 The Memory Keeper's Daughter
2010 Ice Castles
2019 Polaroid
2020 Books of Blood
2020 Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer
Unit Production Manager:
1992 Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
2000 Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
2000 Task Force: Caviar
2001 A Town Without Christmas
2001 Passion and Prejudice
2002 The Christmas Shoes
2003 Finding John Christmas
2003 Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
2003 Hunger Point
2003 Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart
2004 Plain Truth
2004 She's Too Young
2005 The Dive from Clausen's Pier
2006 A Christmas Wedding
2006 Wedding Wars
2008 The Memory Keeper's Daughter
2008 The Tenth Circle
2010 Ice Castles
2011 Jumping the Broom
2014 Big Driver
2014 Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
2019 Polaroid
2020 Books of Blood
2020 Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer
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.