A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mark Boszko
Birthplace:
Maryland, USA
After spending several years as an editor at the National Institutes of Health, Mark moved into non-fiction production in and around Washington, DC, editing and producing motion graphics on productions for History, Discovery, National Geographic, and others. He now lives in Seattle, doing in-house video production for The Omni Group. He also produces and hosts The Optical podcast, revisiting the history of visual effects and film technology.
Editorial Staff:
2012 Besa: The Promise
Online Editor:
2012 Besa: The Promise
2012 Save the Titanic With Bob Ballard
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.