A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Ryan La Via is an award-winning filmmaker based out of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He is a proud graduate of the Film Production program at Confederation College and is best known for directing his hockey documentary "Cup Confidential" (2020). Furthermore, Ryan is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most co-writers credited on a feature film. The film is called "50 Kisses" (2014), and Ryan was 1 of 51 screenwriters on the project. His contribution to the internationally produced feature film was writing the short segment "Red Light."
Co-Producer:
2020 Cup Confidential
Co-Writer:
2020 Cup Confidential
Director:
2020 Cup Confidential
2024 A Sobering Story
Producer:
2020 Cup Confidential
2024 A Sobering Story
Writer:
2020 Cup Confidential
2024 A Sobering Story
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.