A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
San Francisco, California, USA
Ms. Violet Blue (@violetblue) is an investigative journalist on hacking and cybercrime, as well as a noted columnist and award-winning author. She has appeared in documentaries, indie films, and TV shows including HBO's Thought Crimes, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tyra Banks Show, and news segments for CNN and more. Ms. Blue has been interviewed, quoted, and featured in a variety of outlets including BBC, The New York Times, Guardian, Motherboard, and The Wall Street Journal. Her books include five IPPY winners and have been translated into eight languages. She has presented two Google Tech Talks on sexuality and privacy, she was the first female podcaster, she is a crisis counselor, a harm reduction educator and a media crisis NGO trainer.
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.