A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Born:
January 1, 1956
Bob "Condo King" Rennie is a Canadian real estate marketer and art collector from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the founder and executive director of one of Vancouver's largest real estate marketing firms, "rennie". His art collection, the Rennie Collection, is one of the largest collections of contemporary art in Canada, with over 370 artists featured. Rennie has received an honorary doctorate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an Order of British Columbia for his "exceptional dedication to strengthening and enhancing arts and culture in BC." Rennie has been criticized for his role in gentrifying Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, one of the poorest communities in Canada, with the development of the Woodward's Building. He was also the marketer for the controversial condominium developments in Vancouver's Olympic Village.
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.