A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Kaisa Pitsi is an Estonian-Canadian filmmaker. She has over twelve years of experience in documentary editing and directing. A lot of her editing experience is in natural history series as well as documentaries focusing on underrepresented voices. She's a poetic storyteller who's passionate about social justice, history, arts and innovation. Kaisa's films have screened in festivals including Hot Docs, Whistler Film Festival, Al Jazeera Int. Film Festival, Regina Int. Film Festival, Cambodian Int. Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, and POFF-Black Nights Film Festival. She's worked on many successful series including WILD CANADIAN YEAR (CBC's Nature of Things) Canadian Screen Award winner in 2018 and BLK: AN ORIGIN STORY Canadian Screen Award winner in 2023.
Editor:
2010 Children of Karosta
2011 Breath
2011 The Legend of the Mighty Soap
2015 Elizabeth's Playground
2022 The Goats of Monesiglio
2023 Bittersweet Becoming
Property Master:
2007 The Class
2010 Children of Karosta
2011 Breath
2011 The Legend of the Mighty Soap
2015 Elizabeth's Playground
2022 The Goats of Monesiglio
2023 Bittersweet Becoming
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.