A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Nicole W. Block
Nicole Wohland
Birthplace:
United States
Nicole W. Block earned her BA from La Jolla's prestigious University of California, San Diego and earned her Master of Arts degree from California State University, Fullerton in TV/Film. She has been producing popular documentary, non-fiction, reality, variety, and lifestyle programs in broadcast, cable, and new media for over ten years. Some networks where her work has been seen include ABC, A&E, AMC, CBS, Discovery, Disney Online, DIY, Fine Living, Fox, HGTV, MSNBC, Showtime, Speed, Style, and TNT. She is an active voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America. Nicole W. Block is passionate about mentoring and teaching the next generation of film and television professionals and is a member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
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.