A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Viestur Kairish
Viesturs Kairiss
Birthplace:
Riga, Latvia
Born:
June 30, 1971
Co-Producer:
2009 Lohengrin from Varka Kru
Director:
1997 Latavio, or Life Nr. 2
2000 Wedding
2001 Leaving by the way
2001 Magic Flute
2004 Romeo and Juliet
2004 The Monument
2007 The Dark Deer
2009 Lohengrin from Varka Kru
2014 Pelican in the Desert
2014 The Invisible City
2016 The Chronicles of Melanie
2020 The Sign Painter
2022 January
2024 Cohabitants
2024 Wild South
Editor:
1997 Latavio, or Life Nr. 2
2000 Wedding
2001 Leaving by the way
2001 Magic Flute
2004 Romeo and Juliet
2004 The Monument
2007 The Dark Deer
2009 Lohengrin from Varka Kru
2014 Pelican in the Desert
2014 The Invisible City
2016 The Chronicles of Melanie
2020 The Sign Painter
2022 January
2024 Cohabitants
2024 Wild South
Writer:
1997 Latavio, or Life Nr. 2
2000 Wedding
2001 Leaving by the way
2001 Magic Flute
2004 Romeo and Juliet
2004 The Monument
2007 The Dark Deer
2009 Lohengrin from Varka Kru
2014 Pelican in the Desert
2014 The Invisible City
2016 The Chronicles of Melanie
2020 The Sign Painter
2022 January
2024 Cohabitants
2024 Wild South
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.