A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Chicahua Zipactonal Martínez (they/them/elle) is a Trans Non-Binary, Xicané, polymath Performing Artist, Writer, Creator & Freelance Photographer who not only intends to make art that gives everyone a seat at the table but gives them the voice to speak at it! They are proud alumni of The American Musical & Dramatic Academy (AMDA), attending both New York and Los Angeles campuses with a BFA in the "Performing Arts." They recently graduated with their MFA in "Contemporary Theatre and Performance" at The New School of Drama with a Minor in "Transmedia and Digital Storytelling." Chicahua is a creator that aims to develop stories that surround and highlight queer identities, the complexities of breaking patterns in family trauma in communities of color, and, more importantly, to allow audiences to walk away from the body of work continuing the conversation. Chicahua refuses to shy away from reality and strives to be comfortable with the uncomfortable, whether with honest language, representation, or allowing unmarginalized people to speak for themselves.
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.