A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Erin Raftery is of Irish descent. She was born in Thompson, Connecticut, to Rita and James Raftery, who are from Hell's Kitchen New York City. Earning an athletic scholarship, she graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in Political Science, eventually leaving her job with Congressman Joe Courtney in Washington DC to pursue a career as an artist. Erin trained as an actor at the renowned Herbert Berghof Studio, a professional performing arts school located in Greenwich Village, New York City. (Uta Hagen, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Candice Bergen, Al Pacino, Sarah Jessica Parker.) She moved to Los Angeles after spending a few years in New York City working in the theatre world, eventually starring in and producing the short film Joy Division(2009), set in WWII Germany, which premiered internationally at Cannes Film Festival(2010). The short premiered nationally at Nantucket Film Festival(2010) and has been shown to wide audiences to bring awareness to sex crimes committed at holocaust labor camps.
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.