A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Died:
January 28, 2020
John Kottoly found his penchant for acting at a very young age. He always believed that life is a mere imitation of experiences and owes to the world for what he has learnt. Stage is where he found a new self; exploring phases that were challenging to be as his usual self. He was fortunate enough to get exposure to art-house and world cinema at a young age which groomed him to appreciate good cinema and quality performance. He explored digital medium through short-films and won accolades for subtlety in performance and screen presence. To his credit he has over 25 short projects, an Italian feature film, 4 Telugu feature films as an Actor and 1 Bollywood project as an Actor & Asst. Director for acting/ diction coach. John also heads the communication and design for a corporate firm in Hyderabad and currently juggles his life between corporate world and cinema.
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.