A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Liz Rao
Elizabeth Rao is an award-winning feature film producer, editor, and emerging writer-director based in New York. Since growing up in Missouri, the Show Me State, she has been obsessed with movies. Her work bridges fiction and documentary filmmaking. She believes in the urgent need to represent characters, communities and stories that are too-often overlooked in the current film and media landscape. She is drawn to projects that question existing structures — through using surprising style, intimate storytelling, and bold imagery.
Associate Producer:
2013 Butter on the Latch
2015 In Transit
Co-Editor:
2013 Butter on the Latch
2015 In Transit
2018 Madeline's Madeline
Co-Producer:
2013 Butter on the Latch
2015 In Transit
2016 First Day Out
2018 Madeline's Madeline
Editor:
2013 Butter on the Latch
2015 In Transit
2016 First Day Out
2017 Maineland
2018 Madeline's Madeline
2020 Materna
Post Production Supervisor:
2013 Butter on the Latch
2015 In Transit
2016 First Day Out
2017 Maineland
2018 Madeline's Madeline
2020 Materna
Producer:
2013 Butter on the Latch
2015 In Transit
2016 First Day Out
2017 Maineland
2018 Madeline's Madeline
2020 Materna
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.