A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Lize Lefaible is a Belgian producer. She holds a Master's degree in both Literary Studies and Literary Theory. Because of her background in literature and storytelling, Lize loves discovering strong stories and supporting talents, resulting in a wide range of projects, going from features, series to innovative formats. POLAR BEAR is an independent production company founded by Xavier Rombaut and based in Flanders, Belgium, with almost 20 years of experience. We produce premium quality and accessible drama and documentary, as well as factual TV, rooted in challenging local content and targeting global audiences. POLAR BEAR collaborates with both established and emerging talent, translating their vision and creativity to the screen. Keywords within our perception are: authenticity, creativity, content–driven, sustainability and representativeness.
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.