A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Zaq Latino is an actor, musician, and composer based in New York City. After having fallen in love with the musical ‘Wicked’ at eleven years old, Zaq decided to audition for their middle school production of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and... they weren’t cast. But that didn’t stop them! Zaq moved to NYC in 2019 and is super grateful to have been in 17 films to date and a dozen plays off-and off-off-Broadway. Zaq also recently made their network TV debut on Law and Order: SVU. Featured credits include Keith Miller’s ‘This Is My Hero Arc’ and Zoe Kavanagh’s ‘Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill.’ In addition to acting, Zaq is a committed writer and producer; they are the founder and executive director of validBodies arts project, a 501(c)3 performance production company committed to identity-conscious casting. So far, vBap has produced three shows in NYC venues to audience acclaim. Zaq’s feature film ‘Welwitschia’ is currently being independently produced. They are a trans-femme, non-binary person who aims to normalize gender non-conforming representation in professional spaces.
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.