A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, U.S
Melissa Ricci -Producers Guild of America Award Winner- is producer/co-host of the Global Impact Show and U.S Ambassador-at-large of Charity Organization A.N.G.E.L with mission to protect women, families, and children. Based in LA, she has worked as an entertainment host for the '3 Minute Update' Show and acted in several US Film and TV . Global Impact, a Global Affairs show in its fourth season is co-hosted by Melissa Ricci and journalist/global affairs analyst Michael Bociurkiw. Michael Bociurkiw also worked globally for UNICEF and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. To date, Global Impact has had as guests a multi-media award winning artist Sage Gallon; NYC-based psychologist and TV commentator Dr. Sue Varma; fashion industry executive Cara Smyth; several prominent diplomats and journalists; the world's top humanitarian diplomat, Peter Mauer; among many others. Globally, the show is listened to in more than 50 countries, with a majority of listeners in the US and Canada. As well as being in front of the camera, Melissa produced the romantic comedy "Les Bouffons" in which she played the lead. The film won the Laura Ziskin Fellowship Award from the Producers Guild of America with judges that year including James Franco, Donald De Line, Laura San Giacomo, Tim Gibbons and Paula Wagner. Melissa has recently been cast as Kris Jenner in the upcoming Motion Picture about O.J Simpson Murder Trial "Nicole and O.J".
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.