A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Karen Jenkins was born in Toronto Ontario, Canada. She was Orphaned at the age of 5, and then adopted. Her Adoptive Father was a Film Projectionist and Sound Engineer for Music. Her Adoptive Grandfather was also a Film Projectionist. The influence of being raised in this environment from a young age made for a very active imagination, and hence led Karen into a career in the Creative Arts. Whether it was performing on the streets of Toronto dancing on stages for large audiences, or playing a Kasmiri Bollywood Actress in the Himalayan Mountains of India; entertaining in every form was always something that came naturally. Karen’s acting training includes classes with The Second City in Toronto, ON and Company of Rogues in Calgary, AB. She has also studied dance including Hip Hop, Tap, Salsa and Bacchata. Her personal interests have led her to train in Shiatsu Therapy, Minor in Acupuncture, Eastern Medical Theory, Western Medical Theory, Meditation, and Muay Thai. She is also a Certified Yoga Instructor, and is adept in the Basic Foundations of Shamanism.
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.