A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Francesco Di Maio is an actor, writer, and producer known to portray a vast range of captivating characters both on film and stage. Francesco is also known for his collaborations alongside the YouTube channel HiTop Films with whom he co-produced and starred in the short film, The Plumber (2020). Most recently, Francesco finished filming the feature film Jason (2023) a character study of Gotham City's Jason Todd featuring Francesco in the titular role which is set to release in 2023. Francesco Di Maio's passionate love of storytelling has lead him to continuously exercise his craft of acting, he has been training under acting coach Anthony Gilardi at the Anthony Gilardi Acting Studio in Hollywood, California since 2018.
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.