A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Toronto, Canada
Amanda Thomson (Singer/Songwriter/Actress) grew up in a musical household learning piano, saxophone, guitar and drums alongside her father. Listening to Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey on repeat, she quickly learned that it’s all or nothing in this business. She threw herself into the arts and never looked back, applying herself to music, songwriting, theatre, film acting, scriptwriting and production. Amanda is best known for her work on SYFY and CBC’s “ASCENSION”, YTV’s “Totally Amp’d”, Lifetime/LMN’s “The Hazing Secret” and Hallmark Channel’s “A Christmas Song”. Growing up in musical theatre, Amanda has always had a love of performing, as you can see in much of her film work which include soundtracks and on-screen performances. The Toronto native was brought down to Los Angeles by Premium Cali as an exclusive artist to their new restaurant chain. Together they shot a music video for her single “Blessing In Disguise“, currently being aired in Cali Burger restaurants in Asia and the UK.
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.